It’s the last day in Dublin and we were pretty busy with packing all stuff together into our suitcase. Good that I bought a lagguage scale a few weeks ago because the guys in Dublin didn’t had any so they borrowed the one from Josephine and me. I hope I won’t forget anything. Our dinner today was made totally easy. I made a Quesadilla, not typical irish but tasty and it’s made in less than 15 minutes.
Tag: 16. Juni 2012
The last day in Belfast
Hi guys,
yes, today is it the last day of the time in Belfast.
Today we had to pack our bags, and also clean our apartment for the next arriving people from Germany.
We (Martin and I) are gone today in the afternoon, on our last day, in the Morning Star-Restaurant in Belfast, because many people have recommended us.
I have eaten there from the typical Irish buffet. It was very interesting for me, with some new tastes.
Yesterday in my company, I had with Christian and the other guys of Anaeko a small goodbye-celebration with pizza, beer and sometimes good music :D. It was very funny and it was a lot of fun. By the way: it was very interesting to see, how the behaviour from the other employee changed, after some beers 
.
I must say that the time at Anaeko was very interesting and I have learned there some programming skills, but also social skills with foreign colleagues.
A big thanks to my host-company Anaeko, for the nice time in the company. And also, of course a thanks to Kevin Shine, for the organizational part.
The last best regards from Belfast
Benjamin
Thank you!
In my probably second to last post in this blog I would like to take the chance to say thank you.
Thank you to Kevin Shine and his team at RSM Tenon, who organized our time here in Belfast and cared about us. You did a really good job and made our stay here very comfortable and enjoyable.
Thank you to Laurence Roberts from City Resorts, who provided our accommodation and always solved our problems concerning the house as fast as possible.
Thank you to the IT department at Translink for letting me work on many interesting projects and gain valuable on-the-job experience working in a live environment supporting many users across multiple locations. You all made me feel very welcome and I really enjoyed working with you.
Thank you to afib and OSZ IMT for making this internship possible at all.
I hope I did not forget anyone; if I did: thank you, too!
Last Days at Belfast
Tomorrow it’s time to leave the island. The weather makes it very easy to leave Belfast: Since a few days it’s raining and we’ve a heavy wind too. But there was also sunny days, which I’ve enjoyed and payed dearly with a sunburn. At work I made the paperwork for the Europass. Unfortunately our IT-Supervisor is ill and can’t come. But he wrote us a nice mail, in which he said thank you for the work and all the best. Therefore we spoke to our boss and told him what we have done in the 8 weeks. He thanked us and wished us all the best too. Too bad, that the work here at NIBEC is over, but I’ve learned a much and had a lot of fun.
PS: The next post comes on Monday from Germany, because I want to write something about the homeward journey.
It’s time to say goodbye…
Hi guys,
the last days and weeks were so amazing and I have really enjoyed to spend the time at Belfast with so great people like Kevin R. But now, it’s time to say goodbye @ all! Well, I don’t really want to say this one…^^ I owe so much people a debt of gratitude, but the greatest thanks goes to Kevin Robinson, my supervisor and mentor for my internship in Belfast. He is great guy and I hope my project partner for the last days at Volunteer Now will have a great experience at Belfast. He come from Spain and he is doing the same intership like us, but he will stay a little bit longer in Belfast (twelve weeks). Of course, we did some great things on the last days and I was invited on friday one week ago to a little boat trip which was the celebration week for some great volunteers and I was in a nice pub with Kevin where I have watched the football match between Spain and Irland and spent the last time together… I still will miss this great time!
Farewell
Yesterday it was the time to say goodbye to my colleagues at Translink. To be honest I was a bit sad I have to leave now. I really enjoyed working on all these interesting projects with the nice people at Translink.
On my last day I finished some paperwork (documentations, trainings records etc.) and handed over the running projects to my colleagues.
I also had lunch with my supervisor and two colleagues at Gallopers, a sandwich and coffee bar, where I had a traditional Ulster Fry.
Finally I tidied up my desk – well, at least I tried to – so that the next placement student from OSZ IMT, who is starting on Tuesday, finds a clean and neat desk on his arrival … but I didn’t succeed. 😛
Farewell
Belfast, I leave you! I hope you will miss me. I will and I will always remember the good Times you brought me, the stunning music you played for me and the fantastic places you showed me. Hopefully I never will forget the sounds I heard played by Ken Heddock, thank you Ken! And also the sounds played by Mark Graham at Filthy MacNastys, Thank you very much Mark. It will always be a pleasure to me to watch the videos I made from your gigs and to show the wonderful photos I made from you Belfast. I also will never forget what you taught me and how you changed my view at things. I really enjoyed the stay hopefully I will come back and make again such good experience with you. So good bye and cheers!