Re-Intro

Dear all,

because of several requests I have decided to revive this blog to share some about my life in Japan. It will be in English from now, although it may not make much of a difference because I mostly want to share photos anyways.

Well, once again I have arrived in Japan! I did some math, and found out it was actually my 9th time sitting in an airplane towards Japan, and I have already spent something like 374 days here! So, I guess it's not really a new experience anymore, since I've already had the chance to collect lots of impressions about this country before. Still, I'm sure life here will be exciting, as I'm living and working in a new environment, get to  know new people, and have yet many things to learn about Japan. My hope is also to get my language skills up to a somewhat fluent level, and also be able to read most things around me (if only there weren't soo many Chinese characters to learn..).

My first impressions so far are pretty great: A warm welcome, great lab & University with very nice students, awesome apartment (more like a hotel room, actually), quiet environment but still close enough to the places of interest (namely, Osaka).

I'd post some pictures, but I must have left my camera cable back in Germany, so that won't happen for a little longer..

So long,
Matthias