Tag: 7. Mai 2013

A quiet week…

Hi folks, it’s me again.

 

The time since my last post was pretty quiet. Last week, Mr Bavar and Mrs Neumann visited our apartment and as Alexander already said, we proudly presented our, not so silent, water heater and the rest of our “spectacular” apartment.

Like Alexander, I think that three blog posts per week are a little bit too much and two should be more than enough because during the working week you don’t have the time to do something else than buy some food, eat and rest for the next work day.

 

There where nothing really new at work. We are continuously working on our Webpage and are making tests with the parking machine and the self-made electronic circuits.

 

The weekend itself was pretty quiet too. I tried to relax as much as possible.
But unfortunately I was able to hit a nerve in my arm (that’s what the doctor said) because since Monday morning I feel a small numbness in my fingers on the right hand. But it should go away during the next weeks. I definitively hope that it will go away because it’s kind of scary.

 

That’s all for today.

 

See you soon.

Markus

Bank Holiday

Hey 🙂

this is a blog about Monday our free day.

On Monday I didn’t sleep that long, just until 11 o‘ clock :P. I couldn’t sleep that long because I had plans. We wanted to go up to the Cavehill and wanted to check out Belfast’s castle.

So at 12 o’clock Daniel, Clemens, Sean and I started walking in the direction of the mountains. The way up to the mountain is almost 10km long.

First we took a look at the castle. It is a small castle with a restaurant or something like that but we didn’t go inside. Outside was a little garden with nice flowers.

After a little break in the garden we started to go up. It took us about 45 min to go up because the hill is just 400 m high but it is a nice promotion and you get a very nice view over Belfast. See for yourself.

When we were up we had a large break and enjoyed the prospect.

So here are some pictures. I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Incidentally, we had to walk the whole way back. We were back by 18 o’clock. My feet hurt and I needed a shower. 😀

Unfortunately I did not get the blog entry finished by Monday because I had an headaches in  the evening!

And on Sunday we had problems with the internet but now it works with the LAN cable! Tomorrow someone will be coming by to check the bad network here.

        

Sleepless in Dublin

Dear reader,

all these Blog posts are so annoying. Three per week is way to much. One, maybe two are okay but you can’t write something down were you have no time for. In the week you simply can’t do anything exciting. One Post for your work and one post for the weekend is more than enough in my opinion. But hey it’s not my problem so I write down what happened and that’s it 🙂

This long weekend was a big fail. In the night from Friday to Saturday I sleep for around 2 hours and the difference handicap me through the whole weekend. I sleep at the day’s and was awake at the night and that sucks! On Sunday I couldn’t even go with Stefan and Erik to the airport because I was so tired in the morning. (at least I was lucky in this special situation but it sucks anyway). Today I am tired as well but after a hard day at work I hopefully can sleep early today.

In the last week Mr. Bavar and Mrs. Neumann visited me at my workplace. It was a little bit surprising because they said they come on Thursday but it was Tuesday morning. In the evening they visited our apartment and we proudly showed them our „80 dB hot water heater“ 😀

At the end of our first month in Dublin, I can only agree with Mr. Bavar and Mrs. Neumann. I am really surprised how good we manage all this here in Ireland.

Cheers,
Alex

 

#13 – half the way down, what’s done and what’s still to do

HeydiHo!

Additionally to the comparison of expectation to reality I would like to reflect on what we have been doing so far and what we plan to do.

So what we did so far…

We have had a general look around in the city to find decent spots. Also we have had looks at a few pubs inside and outside of temple bar as well as the Irish nightlife itself (was a whole lot of fun!). We of course have had a LOT of work and I am doing many phone calls to customers. I have been „on site“ meaning at the place of the customer (a golf club) to set up a new cloud system. Other than that we have have enjoyed the evenings in general and the highlight so far was our visit in Howth.

My greatest accomplishment…

I managed to get used to the bloody Irish keyboard layout! *YAY*. Also I managed to understand the Irish people with the strong accent.

And we still plan to…

As our journey to the west coast failed (more about that next Blog) we will do it on a different approach next weekend. Also we still plan to do the Celtic tour and i personally plan to take at least one day off and do NOTHING at all, did not manage to do that yet.

Well, I will have plenty to write then and for sure tell you about! See you then!

 

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