Hi Everyone, here I am again. :-)

Ok, so for those of you who hope to get a really nice breakfast in China, I tell you, these guys eat a lot of noodles in the Morning. It looks great, but my stomach did not see the joke and complained a bit this morning. :-(

And I have been tempted to buy these crepes they make here on the streets, but because normally you find puppies and rabbits being sold next to it, I have not fully taken the courage to ask.

Ah, I also learned my first Chinese words with the students around here. So repeat after me:

Ni Hao - Good Morning
Ni Hao Ma? - How are you?
Che Che - Thank you
Tchi Tche - Bye Bye
Cha - Tee
Ye - Salt
Po Hue - Portuguese

I also went the center of Beijing and I can tell you, do not enter the subway on rush hour. It's 40 degrees inside, people sweating, all really next to each other, like a sandwich, I felt like I was the ham or something, and the 50 guys next to me were bringing the bread. But I really like the city. It's dirty and hot and foggy and dusty, but at the same time it's vibrant, active, shows power and brut force to win and they really want to show their best. Ask something to a chinese and they will go to incredible lengths to help you.

I found a part of Darmstadt in here: Next to the university there is... imagine what is big, has a lot of products inside, comes from the land of Bush and normally in Germany locates itself next to an army base... Yes, it's Walmart.

I have been already 3 times to Tai-chi at 6 in the morning. I have to go at that time otherwise the chinese disappear at 6h30. So after that, I go for a little run because Tai-chi is really not very active.

Another thing is that it must be because they only eat noodles and veggies and no really big hard food like in Germany, and so I have seen a lot of nice girls, but a bit small so it's getting hard finding a girlfriend around here, I guess I'll just have to concentrate on my studies and let life take its course.

Work is starting to push, the lectures are now only in the morning, after lunch we have our project, I have chosen "Space Traffic Management" since it is not my area and it touches a lot of issues that I never had time to study or work in. Basically it focuses on Space Debris, De-orbiting of Satellites, Space Tourism, Space Weather and Mitigation issues on satellites. If any of you has any good information to share on any of these points, now is the time to say :-)))

After the project time that finishes around 18h, it's dinner time... at 18h until 19h. half an hour later starts the panels, basically a group of people talking about a certain subject. The other day it was Space Entrepreneurs: Creating New Markets. And we had 5 entrepreneurs: one canadian for laser pointing products on satellites, one british for registration for launches of geo-stationary satellites, one chinese for satellite launching (56 launches, 0 fails), one american astronaut from NASA that now started a company for orbital-flights for space tourism, and one american that sends ashes of famous dead people to space and started this 25 years ago, and has a contract with NOAA to send satellites to L1 for prediction of Solar Winds (space weather).

And that's it.

Tchi Tche,

Ricardo