Survived the first day

First day is over! YAY! So here's the scoop. After surviving the blackout (I somehow blew a fuse) I made my way to work, got my picture taken and my id, then we set out to find my boss. So first off the company is huge! It's almost as big as campus and there are over 3000 employees! The HR person I met didn't even know where the chemistry building was! We finaly found that, but she didn't know who my boss was! We did manage to find the chemistry secretary who called my boss (Mark Roos) to come and get me. So a few minutes later I was up in the lab!

Up in the lab Mark set me up on my computer then it was off to work! Problem was, I didn't know where anything was! Still don't. So I blindly set up 2 reactions, asking every 2 seconds where stuff was. By the end of the day I think I had it pretty well figured out. Let's just hope I remeber everything tomorrow. Lunch was very weird. Everyone was speaking german and I didn't understand a thing! I now know how english people feel when they're with a bunch for french people!

After work Mark took me grocery shopping (oh and german stores don't take credit cards, I'm quickly running out of cash!) so that I could't at least have some food in my tiny fridge. He's bring me tomorrow to register at the city so that I can legally live here and to the bank. He even gave me his cell phone until I figure out what I'm going to do for a phone!

So I think I'm slowly getting settled in here. It's starting to sink in that I'm actually here and staying. And I'm really starting to miss everyone back home. Especially Michael who doesn't seem to home right now! Where are you! So I'll leave you with that while I go watch some MTV (the only english channel I get).