Diaries written in Nuremberg

The 1^st Day,

As imagined, travel with public transportation on Sunday turned out not to bea good idea. Anyway, this is none of my choice. The training in Siemens will begin on Monday. Therefore I have to be present there at latest in Sunday evening.

The delay of bus 142 was 10 minutes, which is normally approximate zero. After arriving at the train station Harburg, when the time of my train came, a train which has the same routine arrived with a 1-hour delay... Since the routine is the same, I asked the steward whether it’s possible to also travel with this train. Having got his permission, I got my 4.5-hour trip started.

In addition, I waited for a bus to get to the hotel for another half hour in Nuremberg.

Before having a shower, I took a little walk around the hotel and settled the travel routine to Siemens. There were not much interesting or pleasing in the first day, except the encouragement from the maid of the hotel, who said my German was “schon so gut”.: ）

我的房间

周围的树林

小区里可爱的小房子。按照德国人的习惯，这些应该都是自己设计和建造的。

The 2^nd Day,

Because of not realising the transition from DST to Non-DST time, I got up at half past 5… A lovely and nutrient breakfast made me even more excited and energetic for the first-day training... Of course, the time I arrived at Siemens training centre was so out of everyone’s expectation that actually there weren’t any service staff in the building. Half an hour later, a kind man opened the door to the classroom and gave me the chance to wait for another hour with a cup of coffee, sitting inside. When I read the list of students beside the door, I saw a Japanese name. Finally, I got to see a Japanese in my real life.  Just when I was full of passion for competing with the Japanese during the course, I saw a middle aged “Ojisan” came in. He even has a 16-year-old daughter. Moreover, in the end, I was the only one who’s not married in the class.

The 1^st day’s training was very elementary. I went back with two Serbian classmates who lived near the central station as well as the old city centre. We had nice black beer in a restaurant which was supposed to be famous (although I’d not heard of it…) for making the beer right under the restaurant. We talked a lot about the politics in Sellbia.  They pictured the political competition in Sellbia which is unbelievable chaotic. They have 300+ parties and in the recent 7 years they had 6 government. Basic objectives, regulations and people in charge are being changed all the time in fields including education, economy, industry and so on. The country is facing a huge brain-drain due to the fact that young people are really driven panic after all those non-stopping change in policy. The Japanese also went to downtown with us and had dinner together. He formerly worked in Omron, and had just joined Siemens in Japan. It’s amazing to see a man in his 45, still being passionate for life, learning English and technical details.

At about 8:30, I got back to my sweet home. There were an orange and a chocolate on the desk. Suddenly, the scene made me so grateful, as a foreigner, and in his first business trip. I wrote “Danke für die Orange und Schokolade” on the napkin, with sincere gratitude.

今晚逛街最大的收获：真正的Audi R8！！！

玩具店的玩具士兵！

国王走的桥，相当于金水桥吧~

市场，和不来梅市政厅前的大市场很像

巧克力老爷爷

建在地底的酒吧，有自己的酒窖，直接从地下的酒窖Pump beer up.

第一次尝黑啤，很好喝，甜甜的

The 3^rd Day,

Correction, I was the only one who does not have a child in the class.

The content of the training is getting more and more interesting. We actually started to program. As a beginner, the guy from Omen has some problems with programming. Japanese Ojisan was also not totally capable for this, but with years of experience working in Omron, I think it won’t be as terrible as programming is to the guy from Omen. Those two from Serbia seemed quite satisfied with today’s exercises, which were not too easy to make them yawning all the time, like yesterday.

Mr. Maier, the instructor, was idle in the most time of the day, just walking here and there, asking “Everything’s OK? ”. I don’t know why he’s always moaning during speaking. He could make that noise in the throat for more than 5 times within a 5 words’ sentence.

The amount of lunch was still far from enough with a price far from realistic, however, the fact of which at least demonstrated how wealthy employees in Siemens are. People, let’s apply Siemens after graduation!

It was raining all the day. Therefore I did not have the motivation to go shopping in the centre of the city. Maybe tomorrow.

Today, the Dow Jones Industrial Index climbed 889 points to 9067, i.e. nearly 11%, which is the second highest rise in a year and a tremendous encouragement to the market after the crisis is officially announced.

The 4^th Day,

Endless rain…No stimulus at all to go to the central city. Yet, still bought a candle and a perfume oil for her.

After the Fed Reserve announced a 50-basic-point decrease in interest rate, for the second time in the same month, Dow froze finally at 8992, which is a little bit out of expect.

Another great financial news is Porsche’s plan of buying VW. Let’s see what happens.

The 5^th Day,

Boring training. There’s really nothing exciting for me as long as the content about programming is finished.

A strong beginning of Dow INDP led the index keep increasing all day, despite of the published economic contraction of 0.3% in the 3^rd quarter this year by the U.S. government. EXXON Mobil even released a profit of 14.8 bn US dollars in the 3^rd quarter. However, the oil price in this period soared even up to 140 dollars, with an ending price of 100 dollars. And the price nowadays has already retreated to below 70 dollars ($ 65 today), less than half of the summit price in the year. That is to say, the surprising profit won’t surprise the world for a long time.

Yen achieved its highest exchange rate to the dollar in 13 years.

The T-Mobil G1 with Google OS on board started to be available in the UK market. iphone’s monopolistic era is eventually ended.

The debts of the U.S. government have been piled up to10 trillion dollars!

I don’t know exactly why I’m talking about all this, but this is my life here…

陡坡：这样的坡上也能建房子？！还能倒车？！

城堡山上的国王城堡和御花园

俯瞰整个古城区

安静

望、远、静

这家点很牛，左边卖甜点，右边买古董首饰，就是女人的天堂阿。

德国人的骄傲：Audi，BMW，Benz。。

疯丫头再现。。。