Tag: 26. April 2013

Yeah, it’s friday!

And again a week comes to an end.

There wasn’t anything new at work, just the same as the last days.

Today we had interesting weather:

In the morning we had a wonderful blue sky and no clouds. Then I thought, “wow what a wonderful day!”. When I looked out of the window one our later it rained and the sky was grey again. Half an hour later the sun was shining again. The whole day the weather changed in that way.

Our street has some similarities to a ghetto. The house next to ours‘ is abandoned. There some kids make fire and riot. So we often have the police in our street. On wednesday the fire brigade was in there as well, with two cars.

At the moment a crocodile sits next to me.

I think we want to go out in some minutes.

 

Here you can see some pictures from the sea.

 

sea

 

sea

Over hours

Dear reader,

today is Friday in the third week of our trip and the time is still running as hell. Yesterday my colleague Hugo ask me if i could do some over hours on Friday evening/night because we need to change or exchange version. Absolutely no problem because then I don’t need to return to our apartment. It’s a win, win, win situation.

I really love my working place here in the center of Dublin, it is quite amazing (big thanks to Magaret at this point). Some of my other colleagues from the OSZ told me that they only need to speak English when they get a new task or when there day start’s, but In my company I need to talk the whole day in fluent English and that helps a lot. Not only when I get a task, also when we talk over our countries or our football clubs or our governments and stuff like that.

Hugo told me why so many Spanish people are in Ireland or other countries: 57 % of the people who are under 25 years old, are jobless. And if you find a job in Spain, it is just a joke. He show me a job advert where over 1000 people fighting for. You need a university study, high level programming and graphic design skills (with certification), you need to speak perfect fluent English and one other language and than you get… 400 € per month and a contract for 6 months. I still can’t believe that.

The best day in the week was yesterday, Thursday. The champions league semi finals were done and both Spanish teams lose with a hard defeat against Dortmund and Munich. I couldn’t hide my smile while i came up the stairs to our office! 😀

This post are maybe a little bit off topic but in my opinion these intercultural things are the most interesting on this journey.

Cheers,

Alex

P.S.: If Stefan write me a message at 7:45am again, i need to kill him 🙂

#8 – On site

Hello there folks, this is Stefan.
I will tell you just a short story of me on site. A colleague required man power as we had to shift 9 PCs, 7 screens 3 laptops and additional equipment over to a Golf club in Luttrellstown (Western side of Dublin). We were supposed to install a completely new solution and integrate them into the DCcloud. Even unpacking felt somehow as it took ages. After that the chaos began, as no one knew what goes where (this feels like in Germany somehow…)
For Lunch Feargal (the co-worker) treated me to a gigantic sandwich with fries. This was exceptionally delicious and after that he showed me how to include PCs to the cloud and feed them with server-run applications. This was the most interesting part.
He dropped me of at a bus station later on so I could get home.
Hope I’ll be on site somewhen again!
See you next blog! That will be about my everyday life I guess.
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