Chapter 110: The Beginning of the European Continent
landed smoothly, and Ni Tu came to a new country silently.
The plane landed in Frankfurt, Germany's regional and transportation hub, but that wasn't where he ended up, ending in Kaiserslautern, a small town about 110 kilometers southwest of Frankfurt.
Kaiserslautern has a technical university in Kaiserslautern, one of Germany's 14 science and engineering schools, and this university is his destination for this "study".
Ni Tu heard that Kaiserslautern is a "small town" with a population of less than 100,000, and their grade director Li Hua once said when he gave everyone a subject guidance that Luzhong University of Science and Technology has just established a "friendly and cooperative relationship" with Kaiserslautern University of Technology, and the school can select a small number of outstanding students to come to Kaiserslautern University of Technology to study. What is "Sponsored Learning"? That is, the students are essentially students of Luzhong University of Technology, and they are just learning a little bit in this German university. Only those with particularly good grades can obtain official status at one of Germany's more prestigious science and engineering universities, provided that they have completed a year of preparatory studies and 800 hours of German language courses, and that a certain level of German is only the first "easy", and then there are a series of demanding conditions that need to be completed gradually to be "lucky" to become a real member of the university.
Li Hua once said: "As the name suggests, the city where this university is located is the city of Kaiserslautern in Germany, and the population of the entire city of Kaiserslautern is 100,000, which is 100,000 worse than the town of Shangma where our university is located, and one-tenth of the Zhangdian district where we are located." However, their civil engineering professional level is very good, if you can go here to study, you will definitely be able to learn better knowledge, practice better vocational skills, and help you to go to the broad road of the workplace. Although we haven't finally witnessed it, we can understand from what Ni Tu told Li Hua that the destination is really the scale of a small Chinese town......
Now is not the time to judge the destination, as soon as he gets off the plane, Ni Tu's first trouble in Germany arises, because he does not know German. Why did he come abroad in a hurry and in a daze?
Although a large part of Germans can understand English, it is estimated that the English level of people here will really be like Chinese, and the English that Ni Tu has learned in his own country is difficult to use in actual communication, if he uses his Chinese English to talk to a group of Germanic people, he may get a sentence "Hell, I know what you're talking about?!" ”
Ni Tu hastily checked the route before coming to Germany, but when he was really there, he was instantly blind. People in a hurry will not pay attention to a yellow-skinned boy, but will only let him be alone in the wind. Because he came suddenly, there would be no enthusiastic international students to pick up the airport at the station, and he Ni Tu is not a celebrity.
"No one asks about the poor in the downtown area, but the rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives." Although it is not too appropriate to use it here, Ni Tu's situation is indeed really unattended. But since you are already in a foreign country, you can only remember that you can only rely on yourself for everything. Hofnog? Ni Tu had thought of him, but he had said before that he had something important to do. Because the last semester was over, this foreigner took a young woman named Hao Qingxi to go on vacation. Now I don't know where the two of them are now!
"I should have asked that old boy from Hofnog in advance!" Ni Tu regretted it in his heart.
In this era, there were no high-end smartphones to navigate for himself, and Ni Tu could only take the first steps of his trip to Germany with a German dictionary he bought in Yanjing and a travel map of Frankfurt found on a plane.
The first thing he had to do now was find a place to spend the night. The hotel next to his mother's airport is a few hundred euros at every turn, and Ni Tu can't afford it.
Fortunately, before he came to Germany, he thought of checking the information about accommodation, there is a jugendherberge (youth hostel) in the city of Frankfurt, although it takes nearly two hours to walk, but it doesn't matter to Ni Tu, you can just feel if the moon is rounder in foreign countries.
Sleeping out on the streets? No kidding, the security environment in Europe is far worse than in China, and if a newcomer to this foreign country wants to see things that cannot be seen during the day, he can consider finding a roadside bench that is not occupied by "peers", and then rest in the cold wind for the night.
The road to the hostel is also easy to walk, just follow the B43. Because he knew that he was poor now, Ni Tu was not willing to choose to take a taxi, and it is said that the taxis here are not cheap, so he walked to the place where he stayed, hoping to have a room.
As soon as you step out of the airport southwest of Frankfurt, you will enter a forest area, which is very quiet, and the forest cover in Germany is really not low, even though it is winter, it is really unique.
From the airport, you will continue along the road and it will take less than 50 minutes to see an open space ahead. Ni Tu looked up, it turned out to be a sports center, according to the information found before, this is the Commerzbank Arena, the home of the Bundesliga team Eintracht Frankfurt.
Ni Tu still has some impressions of this club, because there was once a Chinese player who was infinitely close to success here, this player's name is Yang Chen, the position is a striker, Yang Chen was the main Frankfurt team for a period of time after Yang Chen's transfer to Germany, if it were not for the injury and the frequent call-up of the national football team, he is likely to achieve better results here.
Stopping outside the stadium, Ni Tu rested for a while. This magnificent football stadium is very attractive in front of your eyes, why haven't such scenes often appeared in your dreams? Just like basketball players yearn for the NBA, all Chinese football players who chase the ball want to come to Europe to play, which is the center of the football world, and only by playing here can they improve their football level and "learn from their skills to control them".
Turning into the outer ring road of the stadium, Ni Tu, which is next to the football stadium building, looks so small in front of the tall football field. Indeed, this mid-range team in the Bundesliga can be called a giant for Ni Tu now, and Ni Tu did not expect that in the blink of an eye, when the away team came here to face off against Eintracht Frankfurt, his identity would change from an unknown tourist passerby to a conqueror!
After walking for about 50 minutes from the stadium to the city, Ni Tu finally came to this Frankfurt youth hostel after taking a transit plane for more than a day and rushing for nearly 2 hours.
It cost 30 euros and I stayed in. Ni Tu should be grateful to the person who broke off the relationship with him, it was she who helped her exchange euros, and the scholarship of the domestic school will also arrive within a month, according to the person who sent her away, this money is paid by the Technical University of Kaiserslautern on her behalf, about 200 euros a month, which is already a lot of money.
is also really tired, Ni Tugang fell asleep as soon as he entered the hotel, and he slept to death that night. Faintly, Ni Tu seems to have had a dream, that dream has some bizarre, the tone of the dream seems to be that thousands of people are cheering on the brightly lit football field, there is a shirtless man in the stands leading the crowd to chant what slogan, there are two teams in the stadium are fighting fiercely, a player who can't see clearly is walking away with the ball, just like entering the invincible mode, no one can stop him, when this person rode alone and blasted the ball into the goal, the atmosphere of the scene reached a climax, The high-pitched voices of the fans made it necessary to cover their ears. Then the screen turns, fireworks go up, and the person who can't see clearly holds the trophy aloft...... Silence returned to everything, and Ni Tu woke up.
When he opened his eyes, the morning sun had risen the next day, and Ni Tu immediately went out, he was going to the passenger transportation center to prepare to take a bus to the destination university to report. Although he didn't know German, Ni Tu could still write the words Kaiserslautern.
Anxious to rest last night, Ni Tu only found that the walls of the entire youth hostel were covered with football-themed graffiti when he went out in the morning. He even spotted a portrait of Andreas Müller, a front-court libero from Frankfurt who was the darling of the city, in this creative graffiti. Although he was 35 years old when he returned in 03, it is undoubtedly a touching deed for a member of the European Championship and World Cup winners to join their childhood parent team, which is on the verge of relegation, at the risk of "late season".
Occasionally, a few children were chasing soccer balls on the streets, and Ni Tu even wondered if they might be the next Beckenbauer or Mateus. I took the liberty of playing with them for a while, and a few little guys played very well, although they didn't understand each other's language, but they didn't seem to need extra words when playing together, everyone was very happy, and they looked at each other and smiled at the end.
The streets are very neat, Frankfurt can be regarded as a big city in Germany, and the bustling shopping streets are lined with posters of Frankfurt club stars, and some merchandise brands want to use the fame of the stars to attract business for them, which obviously works well.
All he needs to do now is buy a ticket at the passenger terminal and hurry to the unfamiliar "town" of Kaiserslautern.
It's still very cold in Germany in winter, but this has no effect on Ni Tu, who let him come from the north of China? The cold air blowing from Siberia has created Ni Tu's frost-resistant body.
"Damn, my God, I'm glad my hometown is colder than this!" Ni Tu was quite complacent, compared to the winter in northern China, the cold in western Germany was indeed trivial.
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At 10 a.m., Ni Tu got on the bus to Kaiserslautern, and he was finally able to put away the card with Kaiserslautern's name written on it. This card is undoubtedly announcing to the world: I am a foreigner. The scenery on the road is very charming, after about 2 hours of sightseeing, Ni Tu, who has gone abroad in a hurry, finally came to this small city that he had never met, and Ni Tu's arrival is just one more tourist for Kaiserslautern at present.
In fact, it was the arrival of Ni Tu that slightly changed the trajectory of history, and it was his arrival that opened a new chapter in the history of Kaiserslautern!