Tag: 8. Mai 2013

Week 5

Hi guys

I hope you are well.

Everything is fine here in Dublin. At Monday we were in Howth again, because this day was a bank holiday. At morning we were shopping in Lidl for food. After this shopping tour we met our colleagues in Howth. As Nick, Mike and Felix arrived in Howth later, so we walked along the beach. After the other guys arrived, we searched for a place to get lunch.  But all restaurants at the coast were too expensive, so we bought us a snack in a little shop. The people in this shop were very crazy. They took at least five orders at once. It was a big confusion.   After a good lunch we climbed the cliffs and had a nice view on the ocean. In the evening we cooked and relaxed the remaining time.

Hammer Aussicht oder?
Hammer Aussicht oder?

Yesterday was a normal workday. I created a web API and learned many new things. After work I cooked fish, vegetables and rice and we relaxed the remaining evening and watched Breaking Bad. For the weekend we planned a bus tour to the Cliffs of Moher and a Celtic Tour to 7 different places.

 

See you later

Some complaining

Hey,

in the last few days nothing really interesting happened. I still like it here (even if I look forward to the 31.5.), I help where I can and yeah…

We are still screwed in terms of WIFI in our accommodation. I found out what the problem is but the owner believes only a guy from the „Government“ who lives here too. Works for the government and lives in a BnB… Should tell everything.

We got a new router here and everything is still not working. I told them, it´s the fault from the powerline here. No one was reacting. Okay. I don´t care. I stopped to complain about. Other people could do this here. I am sure this will give a good rating for this accommodation. 🙂

I like it when the guy is telling things about networks. It´s funny everytime, because I have to correct him by every statement. As long there is WIFI in the big Living-Room, it´s okay.

The only thing which annoys is, that the female owner here thinks we germans are all evil and are responsible for the not working WIFI. If she talks face to face with us she is incredible friendly but I heard her telling lies about us.

 

Nothing to complain about: I still like my workplace! I really like the people there and what is the most important: My english seems to improve!

I begin to understand them way better than before. I am able to have larger conversations, with bigger sentences and some more smalltalk.

I still have some problems when they talk to each other, but it becomes better and better. I do not only learn a lot about english at my workplace, but also a lot of technical things. I think, I really fit in this team there. 🙂

 

See you guys!

English speaking people

Dear reader,

today and yesterday were good days. I receive two packets from Germany to ease my stay here in Ireland. Almost 3 weeks left, what is unbelievable when I think about my scare before we start our journey.
Some of my Spanish colleagues flying back to Spain for a few days in this week. I think they celebrate something or stuff like that. Hopefully they return in the next week or I have nothing to do… 😀

At work I need to save some old mail profiles. Just the normal way: permissions via AD and then copy and paste. But the English part in every task makes it to a challenge. It would be great when I find a job or a company in the future with some English employee’s. It was interesting in the FU-Berlin and in Ireland as well and maybe I will find some in my next and last project in the Max- Planck- Institute.

The weather here in Ireland was good the last few days (Irish good) but today it rains again. I stop writing for a few minutes and now the sun is shinning o.O

Cheers,
Alex

 

 

Start into Week #5

Hello everyone,

it’s me again with nothing really new to report.

On Monday I had a day of peace and quiet to myself because the guys went up Cave Hill, the same thing I did two days before. (remember the long blog entry on Monday, I bet you don’t :D)
I took the opportunity to clean the apartment and baked a bread, yummy gray bread, it turned out quit nicely. Furthermore I went for a littel stroll through the Queens Quarter but I forgot to bring my camera.
The next day was Tuesday, as many of you will probably have guessed, and the first day at work after the long weekend. I prepared three new laser printers that will be installed in Omagh today by Gordon and build myself a new Windows 7 image for future use.

On Friday I will go up to Armagh with Robin to install a new printer and setup the VPN between Armagh and Cultra Manor, I’m curious how the Armagh Country Museum looks like.

I hope to write more on Friday.

 

Yours sincerely,

Tobias