A: Yep, it’s true! They work a lot!!! But they also get the results out of this. I think the workday might look like this:

around 6,7 wakey wakey, then breakfast & co.

8, 9 start working

12-13 lunch

13-whenever- work (hmmm, average time when they finish is maybe 18…hmmm, I’m not sure-at laboratory when they finish with their daily work, they go home-there is also a bunk bed if they’re too late:) they’re free to come and go whenever they want but they know what their job is…

around 18, 19-dinner

later-friday karaoke, drinking bars, tv…during week tv and bed, maybe also some sports

students:

start at 8 a.m. finish at 4 p.m. after that go to a part time job, play sports three times per week (almost everybody is a member of a sport club-tennis, golf…), study or in the evenings go to karaoke, drinking bars, have fun.

This is some kind of average presentation. You hear all kind of personal stories. Mine goes like this: I wake up around 8 a.m., have breakfast, catch the train after rush hour, come to department where I check my e-mail (thank you all for keeping my inbox full:), then read some articles, annoy staff with questions about their projects, read some more articles, looking for articles for home work, one day also check the situation at the hospital, around 4 p.m. go somewhere, either it’s ice cream either it’s meeting with friends either see a museum, make ikebana, present slovenia in front of the students that look after me… Have dinner at home or sometimes outside and go to bed around midnight after seeing some funny japanese tv shows. I like saturdays’ morning seminars with presentations of articles and afternoon’s trips and love sundays with exciting sight-seeings. I have met wonderful people here! And got the idea how a working day and weekend should look like:) 

But the best thing is they are all in good mood, make fun out of everything, there is no place for tiredness and they are all willing to explain me things, to listen to me and to answer to all of my questions, to help me arrange the trips, to give me sweets (oishiii, I love japanese food-you are probably starving and just waiting for the post about it, ain’t you?!!!;)… They are amazing! Domo arigato!