The Heidelberg Bridge, the old man, and his dog

the old man should be a local German.

Shopping centre in the city.

we had our lunch in a Chinese restaurant, interestingly, the manager of that restaurant is a Malay(马来西亚), we chatted for a while after lunch. he complained to me that he think Heidelberg was too boring. i said, "why? this town is so beautiful". he answered, "that's because u r new here, i have been living in this town for years, this place is beautiful, but it's lack of excitement. it's hard to find any change. Bored feeling is inevitable when there is no change". "sounds reasonable" - thats only what i can say he he we also asked him about Malaysia, he didn't say much but he said Malaysia is a weak country(which implies he doesn't like it). he also claim that he had been to China once, "there r too many ppl in ur country, it's really hard for ppl like me to adapt". i could understand that completely then, after experiencing so much in Europe, i realized how severe the population situation is in our country. this problem have already put too many obstacles in Chinese growing up(中国的崛起 ).

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下面是引用Jinlei于2005-01-08 21:57发表的:
i want to get a chance like you,but.............................money !!

好好学习哈!

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下面是引用sile于2005-01-09 00:01发表的:
楼主,我发现你的英语水平不错啊
能给点经验吗

thank u! 我的经验? 在生活中多接触英语吧, 比如电影游戏什么的^_^ 总之我不是很努力刻意去学英语的那种.

20k

i have to take examinations from 10th to 14th January, so i will pause posting new pictures until 15th January.

couldn't be better ^_^

ya 20k is all there is to the trip, including accommodation & 97% travel sites' expense. Shopping is not included of course, how can the travel agency know how much u would spent during shopping? And only very few travel sites required extra fee(like the Gondola in Venice), but they r very very few.

except shopping, that 20k covers almost all the expense we encountered in Europe.

Heidelberg University is famous for its long history, it was built in 1386! There's one unique, interesting thing about this university, it has a 'student prison', as shown on the picture. This prison is set for the bad students in the university only. The bad students sent into the prison were usually those who made serious mistakes & had broken the university's discipline seriously(严重违反校规). This prison is unique in the world. All of the "termers"(服刑者) would be punished by 1~30 days' prison life, and what's more, during this time, they must take classes on the day and went back to the prison after class. Also the prison only provide the termers with bread and water.

However, this prison was abandoned in the early 20th century. Today it is just a tour site.

Oh besides, the girl is a member of our team, we were in a hurry then, i can't wait she walk aside to take the shot, so i have to take the picture with the prison and the girl

The administration building of Heidelberg University, very beautiful. Why r the universities in Europe so nice?!
since we were a student travel group, visiting various universities around Europe was our 'primary target'.

Another side of the administration building.

We left Heidelberg before sunset. I noticed one thing during the road to our next station. I found many 'wind power station'(风力发电站). These kinda device were not just seen after we left Heidelberg, i saw them all the time when we were driving along the expressway. From this, i can understand a little why Europe has such a nice environment. In fact, i didn't find ANY man-made pollution during the trip. In my eyes it's just like the ppl there 'belong to the nature', while we, Chinese, 'are against the nature' coz in China i see man-made pollutions all the time.

These kinda power station are very familiar in Europe.

After leaving Heidelberg, we left Germany & headed to France.

Before we got to Paris, we went to a small country first - the rich Luxemburg. But we didn't spent much time here coz there was much fun about this country. On the picture is the World War II cenotaph(二战纪念碑). During WWII, Luxemburg once attended the injustice war --- that is, Luxemburg fought for Germany. So this country was blamed a lot after WWII, however, everything is ok now.
The flag on the right is the national flag of Luxemburg, do u find anything about his flag? is it very familiar? does it resemble the French national flag? hehe~~
Luxemburg is beside France, so its culture, its ppl r very much like French ones. The official language in this country is French too.

Three local civilians. They were very polite to us. i got their permission to take a photo of them lol~~~ They spoke pure French, i could hardly understand what they said.

Behind them is the bottom of that WWII cenotaph.