The hardest part so far ...

 ... has been to have less time for our son. This has of course nothing to do with living in Germany, but with having a new, regular (8-5 Job). In Taipei I was working for Radio Taiwan International  was born and had a much more flexible working schedule. So for the first one and a half years after our son was born I was able to be at home a lot during the day. So he was used to see me in the mornings, and especially when he was able to get out of his bed himself he would run to my study and look for me. We also were able to go out together quite often. Be it only downstairs, walk around the lake nearby, get food, or even "explore" the city.
Now, most of the time, I am already gone when he wakes up, and I come home only around 6 PM. So there is not much time I can spend with him. So sometimes he tells me: "Papa, don't go to work".

I dearly miss the times when I was able to spend more time with him. It is not very likely that this kind of job will come around again, so I am very grateful that I had the opportunity to work for the radio back in Taipei.

First Snow - First Crash

We had the first snow yesterday (not in all of Germany). It made my son really excited and parts of the road really slippery this morning. And that made cycling to work somewhat tricky. I had just left our building and i was passing a couple of neighbours. Just when I happily had said "good morning" I noticed the icy underground, but it was too late. I crashed right in front of the neighbours. Fortunately apart from my pride I was unhurt