09 September 2005

Some englisch now,

The last few posts were mainly about labwork and our "regular life" here.
except for today where I messed up three days worth of work the lab is fun, I think I knew what I was doing, till today. I just started the experiment anew and think that I know the mistake I made and that I will not make it again.
The way Chemists in Japan work is very different form the way I used to work in Germany. This is about the most interesting thing here right now learning the way they do it here.
I am working on a Ruthenium Komplex including a bulky Sulfur-Ligand and Triphenylphosphin. My job will be to find out the reaktivety of the Ruthenium-Sulfur bond. I think this will take about one month from now, then I will recieve another Projekt (right now I am finishing a projekt from a student who just graduated).

To tell you how my day looks like here is a short summary:

8:05 Frank wakes me up and we go jogging forr 45 Minutes (otherwise I would not wake up in the morning)
8:50 I return home and I am awake enough to do the normal morning things
9:20 The three of us meet to go to the University
9:30 Work starts
12:00 we go to a cafeteria to have lunch
13:00 Return to the lab
18:00 One hour for supper, normally we eat a sandwhich
19:00 To the lab again
23:30-0:30 Leaving the Lab-Buildiing and be almost to sleeepy to stand.

It does not sound loike that much fun but it really is, I never knew i could live like this for I am someone who is quite lazy most of the time and there is no to be lazy here.

Well, well I have to retrun to my reaktion now.