Monat: April 2013

Well, after almost 3 weeks its time to give you an overview about what I do day in day out.

So generally I leave the penthouse at about 0840 a.m. and get to work. There I do a lot of server and firewall administration, calls and whatever else they give me. For example it has been my task to sort the RDP and sonicwall information in almost all client-contact details and later i was to export the sonicwall configuration for backup purposes.

I do a lot of communication with my house-mates about what to eat and who goes shopping. Generally speaking we all go, just to different location for different purposes to feed the group.

At home, mostly between 0630 p.m. to 0730 p.m. It’s just about eating dinner and talking, watching Breaking Bad or Soccer, or even playing games on the laptop.

We try to use the weekends as best as we can, even though a bit time to just relax is somehow mandatory. We still intend to visit the „good“ harbor as well as at least one castle outside of Dublin.

Well that’s it for my everyday routines. I have no idea what the next Blog will be about, but you will definetly find out.

until then – cheers!

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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 🙂

Hello there,

I am sorry. I am tired and I seem to get a cold, so I want to go to bed. I will just upload a few pictures from my trip about the celtic culture and then sleep for a too short time. The big news I wanted to tell you has to wait until the next few days.

HeyHey, Stefan here.

As Erik already wrote we wanted to go to the harbor on Saturday. Well actually we did go there. Sadly we went to the wrong one, all we could see was walls and fences – there was no way to enter.

The way there itself was incredibly nice (and Erik provided you a great picture). As indicated the harbor itself was a disappiontment. But we will look for the „real thing“ some other weekend of course.

Or way home was decent again, we took our time and sat down next to the river, where we saw a really damn old lift-bridge-thingy.

Next blog I will tell you a bit about me „on site“ at a golf club.

See you then!

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