I am Julia (24) and have taken part in the Blind Applying campaign. I have been selected by Evonik for an internship at the Advanced Project House Light & Electronics (PHLE) in Hsinchu, Taiwan. For five months, I will be working on the synthesis and application of metal oxide particle coatings and experience a new culture and living environment. For more information about Blind Applying visit www.blindapplying.com

Sunday 11 May 2014

long distance Mother's Day gift

As I am far away and could not think of anything useful amazon could deliver to Mama to show her how much I appreciate that she has always been a strong and hard-working woman who served as an example for me and supported me in following my dreams, I went on this website and donated some money to help to register more potential stem cell donors for leukaemia patients (btw, registration is easy and for free). 


Happy Mother's Day!

Saturday 10 May 2014

my new little universe

After solving some initial problems, all doors in the flat are unlocked, I even have my own key to the house and can use the A-GPS of my phone when I get lost. =) Despite some new problems (e.g. 142 mosquito (or something similar) bites on my right leg – too lazy to count the ones on the left but the estimated number for it is fortunately lower), I could settle in and get familiar with my new environment.

Around 8.30, I go to work by bus number 5608 which has a timetable in the style of 'busses go from 6.15 to 22.45 every 10 to 20 min.' (This is just a guess as I can only read the numbers ^^) So the variance of the waiting time is comparable to what I am used to since my time in Australia (and less compared to trävelling wis Deutsche Bahn).
Evonik’s veilchenblaue (it seems, the heart is (vlei) net only beating for the BVB ;-)) world is located at the ITRI campus. Besides quite a lot of measurement devices to characterize materials, there is sophisticated equipment in the coffee corner which supports reading and creating of violet powerpoint slides as well as filling space above the 'confidential information' label which is printed on every page of my thick black lab journal.  


I have lunch with the other interns at the ITRI canteen and usually buy some food from the diverse take aways around our residence for dinner. It is getting easier to find the way to get home, but still …
... the universe is expanding ...