Visiting the
University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany/ Carlos Pueblo
After
arriving to Cologne, releasing my luggage at the inn and I turned
right back
to the rail road station took a train right back to Bonn to
visit the
University of Bonn, an institute brought back a good memory
of my adolescent
dream, my elder cousin from my mother’s side went
to have his
fellowship at Bonn’s Medical School in the mid-60’s and he
was always
as a role model for us in our life, a graduate of Taiwan
University
Medical School and a successful gynecologist-obstetrician.
I was very
happy to see the famous main building of the University, the
yellow color
architecture. It’s all started here in 1819 when King Frederick
William III
donated the land and facility to set up the school. The University
Hospital and
the school of medicine must be taught here as a German
couple responded
to my question, then it was moved to the city center of
the west
side, then to Vensuberg of the west of Bonn. The couple told me
that I would
have to take a bus to reach there.
My mother
always has been very proud of this eldest nephew. She always
had mentioned
her relation with him after his mother died of delivery
difficulty
for a second child. He had come to visit us in the central part of
Taiwan for
summer break from Taipei. His successful schooling has been an
envy of our
family. My brother Yancy even attempted to retake the college
entrance
examination at the summer of his sophomore year at the engineering
school to
get the admission to the famous medical school. Since then, there are
three of our
family young generation becoming physicians at the encouragement
of their
fathers after the influence of their elder uncle.
Bonn is a
lovely city of Germany, used to be the capital of West Germany, thanks
to a
distinguished alumnus Konard Adenauer, the premier after the War. It is very
relaxing at
the campus especially in front of the yellowing building, it’s told that
the building
was heavy damaged during the War and was rebuilt. I was in a hurry
to make the
trip and I did tour the old city center and saw the monument of
Beethoven, a
famous hometown composer.
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