15th December 2005 - Day 73

Thursday is here.

You could probably guess correctly that I woke up a bit late and hence missed the bus.

Using my run/walk technique which I have perfected over the past few Thursdays here, I got to the lecture venue in a record time of 10 minutes and 23 seconds.

The door was still opened even though I reached at 0803. Normally, the lecture would have began. It turns out that there was a guest speaker today. This guy is in charge of some environmental protection department in Karlsruhe. Or is he in charge of Arbeitsschutz? I can't remember.

The topic he's dealing with today is dealing with the bureaucracy when some rich firm decides to build a Chemical Plant somewhere. He goes on further to explain what things the Behörde takes consideration of and how the process works.

Everything went on quite fine until he gave us an example about a Chemical Plant producing some specific chemicals, and gave us each a set of notes on some legal stuffs.

It's a joke. Even with a dictionary, I couldn't make out what the legal text was talking about.

I went to another lecture after that. And fell asleep twice, only to be woken up by the German sitting beside me by some irrelevant questions.

"What day is today?" and, "Du kennst deutsch, oder?"

I must say they were quite effective in waking me up.

Afternoon was spent back at hostel trying to get some work done. But I ended up cleaning up my room as I saw spider webs forming again.

So, time to go...to bed.