I forgot to mention the bad luck we had so far.

Sure,Itold you about the flu but the were more things:

My hotel room is icy cold. Even though I can't meassure it I guess it is approx. 10° C. The floors are cold tiles and I think the wall are all a bit wet. (This might have hepled me to get the flu!)
I only have 2 thin sheets and during the night I constantly loose one or even two... When I was sick I always felt cold, so what I did was, that I took my computer's power supply in my bed. It always gets very hot so I wanted to heat up my bed for a few minutes...unfortunately I fell asleep (must be because of the fever...) ad when I woke up the computer was off and my bed cold. The power supply had burned through!!! So since that evening I have no computer anymore...very bad for me! Difficult to work and no entertainment anymore.....*buuuuuhhh**

On our first day to work again, we had a car accident. The road to the mine is under construction and looks like a muddy dirt road at the moment. When we drove there a car was in front of us. The driver decided to stop at the right side of the road but when we were almost next to him he suddenly started an u-turn... We smashed right into the side of his car. Fortunately nobody was seriously injured, but it took a lot of time to sort out everything and we all had a bit of a shock...

and I will not bore you with the stories from work. It was bad as well but now it looks like we are winning!

...keep on swimming...

Thanks for all your good wishes; looks like they helped me to recover. I still look bad though and my voice reminds you more of a rosty siren but inside I am almost fine! ;-)

Time flies by...I am already 10 days here (missed 4 of them by constant sleeping and running to the toilet). Today (Saturday) is a very important day for us workwise. Since Klaus was also a bit sick we didn't make such a good progress in the beginning. Yesterday we achieved the 1st good sorting results with our little MikroSort. Today we have to prove that the unit can sort emeralds in stabil way. If we succeed today and the sorting results are fine Klaus, Astrid and I are off tomorrow heading for RIO!!!! 5 days we want to stay there and finally recover fully from our diseases! I hope we can go!!!!!!!!!!!!

And we will also go to a bar tonight and get pissed...I think we deserve it!

LET'S HOPE THE MIKROSORT WILL SORT THE EMERALDS!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)