Since 20th February, 2006 I am working in Böblingen for daemons point, a company from Stuttgart Zuffenhausen, which works for HP, and nearly everybody of us (28 including the two company owners) is working here in the building of HP together with the Team of HP. I had my Interview a week before and they asked me, when I could start working and after I replied, that I could start immediately the next monday I started working. The second week I got my own computer, ID Card, own e-mail account and a contact list entry with phone number. In two weeks I already should replace a colleague, who will be in holiday during a code freeze. We are working in an open-plan office together with HP. There is also a coffee corner, where you can get coffee, tea and sparkling water for free and a recreation room with a tabletop football (Kicker) and a billiard table, but I haven't used it yet. We can use the canteen of Philips, but we don't get a discount like the employees of HP and Philips, therefore it is very expensive. So I just take a soup every day. We are just around five people of our company going to the canteen every day, but for me it is just because of communicative resonts.

15:10 15.03.2006 On Carnival Monday (And the piano sounds like a carnival) or Rosenmontag I took the first day off, even it was not usual, but inbetween I reworked the eight hours. (I like doing my job) The weekend before last two colleagues and me went out forclubbing in Stuttgart.

The first week I stayed at the house of my aunt and my uncle in Filderstadt, next to the airport, where even my sister Susanne, who studies in Stuttgart, lives. Now I am living in an appartement-sharing community in the appartement of my cousin, a violin teacher, in Schönaich, next to Böblingen. So I go to work by bicycle every day (about 9km). Last week it was snowing the whole time, so I couldn't climb up the hill easily. (Climbing Up on Solsbury Hill) There are also showers in the groundfloor, which everybody can use, like one of the company owners, who makes triathlon and goes for jogging every day together with HP employees, and me, but all the lockers are occupied and there are about 50 towels hanging on the wall (ten green bottles are hanging on the wall) and everywhere, where there is something to hang a towel or clothers.

My work is programming and executing testcases for parts of software HP and our company developed. The colleagues are very kind and helpful and most of them are about 30 years old (even the two company owners). We are all on first-name terms with each other. (You can say you to me.) :-) Two of my colleagues are Indian, one is Romanian, one is Austrian, one is Saxon and the others are Swabians and the english pronunciation of all of them is horrible. The Indian got their typical accent, but the others don't even try to pronunciate the words proper. (uugh!) When the britain employees of HP come around, it feels like heaven. The female project leader of HP also speaks swabian english an always uses english terms, while she speaks german.
Altogether I enjoy my first job.