Tag: 23. Mai 2012

Three days… Two films… One Project… But a lot of sunshine!!!

Hey guys,

it’s always funny to how the weather can be changed in irland. Now, it’s a lot of sunshine like the first few days of summer in Germany. We have watched to additional films in our favourite cinema: „The dictator“ and „Safe“. „The dictator“ was very funny and I would recommend this one, but I didn’t like to recommend the other one, because I my opinion, the scenes was switched to fast sometimes and there are to much story scenes with very few action. I think that’s very unusual for an actor like Jason Statham. Well, I enjoy the first sunshine days of this week and my projects at Volunteer Now works very fine, but I had the first setback on tuesday, because I wanted to use MS Dynamics SDK, but the current version of this SDK wasn’t compatible with the MS Dynamics 4.0 CRM Server. Therefore, I was frustrated that Microsoft doesn’t keep his own standards and the migration was successed from the 4.0 version to the 2011 (5.0) version, but the import of the old organisation site was failed, because there was to many changes. So, I had to create all changes from the previous one, but I have finished this one and now, I can begin to develop some webresources with the new SDK and a new Framework. Well, it’s very interest, but it’s a little bit more difficult to work on project which used a more closed application than an opensource project. I think, it will be a nice challenge and I can get more experience by using Microsoft SDK’s. So, I look hopefully in the following days of this week and I wish everyone a nice week, too.

A half day on the Titanic

Hi guys,

no, I was not really on the Titanic, but close to it, because we (Martin and I) was on Saturday in the world famous Titanic-Museum. It is one of the landmarks of Belfast.

The Titanic-Museum

We started on Saturday noon to drive with a taxi to the Titanic-Museum. Arrived there we have picked up our tickets (on the website reserved) at a ticket office. After 30min waiting, we could start in the “Titanic World”. 🙂

The start began with the former living in Belfast and how the shipping industry arose. After them we could drive with an elevator up on the titanic scaffold (20m high).

After the crossing of the scaffolding, we could with a small, I would say space shuttle, fly around the working mens, which have worked on the titanic. We could they see on screens, camouflaged as windows.

On the end of the museum, we could marvel the titanic wreck under our foots, it was amazing.

Best regards from Belfast
Benjamin

Sunny Days

This week starts with some really nice days. The sun is shining all day long since Monday and it really feels good. Yesterday Mr. Bavar and Mrs. Neumann visited us at our placements and our appartement. Afterwards we had some nice hours talking about our experiences here in Belfast and our impressions about the city, the people and the atmosphere at work. Mrs. Neumann really attracted interest in the dress code and the casual friday.

More than half of the 8 weeks are over now and to be honest, I’m really looking foward to get back home. I really like Belfast and also it’s people but you know, there’s no place like home.

Vistors from Berlin

Yesterday, visitors from Berlin, Mr. Bavar and Mrs. Neumann, came to see Belfast. Kevin Shine, our local advisor from RSM Tennon, arranged for them to visit each of us in our work placements and afterwards to see our apartment, the MEWS house at Hardcastle Street. The apartment is first time part of this training program, so our visitors wanted to receive an impression how the conveniences are. They were impressed and Mr. Bavar said that he would choose this apartment if he had to go to Belfast for two month. They took a few photos and afterwards we went to a pub called “Filthy MacNasty’s”, Mrs. Neumann really liked this location. We had a few nice conversations and a lot of fun, it felt like they brought a piece of home with them.

Visitors at Filthy MacNasty's

But unfortunately we were short of time and the visitors had to drive back to Dublin. René, Tim and me brought them to rail station and there we bid good bye.