Astronomy and Coffee

Summary :-) May 2008 we received the "bad" news that the place we reserved for Matheus at the MPIEM kindergarden didn't exist and we needed to find a quick and good solution. It was a "tagesmutter" (day mother), a system very common here in Germany and very reliable. After searching we've got a great one, for a good price but in the neighboring town. Everything was great, they were perfect, no one could take better care of Matheus, the only problem was the 1.5 hours by bike or 2.5 hours by bus to go and comeback. So the 8 hours day gets reduced to a 6.5 hours day.

On tuesday we've got a call from the kindergarden that they finally had a place for us. After visiting and thinking a lot we decided that this would be the best an sanest option. Spoke to Silke, the tagesmutter, who's got very sad. The only option we were doing it was the going back and forth. During this day she made us a "counter offer", that she would pick up and bring Matheus home everyday. For us the problem was solved, we've got the care we like for our son and don't spend long time going and coming back.

People say Germans are cold, they might be, but once you break their "ice" they are able to do anything for you. Thanks Silke!

This wouldn't be a problem if we had bought a car, but considering that we'll not stay in Germany after the summer, this wouldn't be the wisest thing to do.

The next problem to be solved was my visa, also solved.

Now about work. Reading and locating the topics I have to study for the positions I'm applying. No details now. Also finished the photometry of the new objects we have spectroscopy. Also working on my catalogues, as usual.

That was the weekend too.

Later a post about monday.