Autor: Lars Holstein

Soooo,

Das wars. Man möge mir verzeihen, aber meinen letzten Eintrag werde ich einfach mal ganz frech in Deutsch verfassen.

Was soll ich sagen… Ich bin unendlich froh, endlich wieder in Deutschland zu sein. Klar, Irland hat unglaublich viele Vorteile, Dinge, von denen wir uns in Deutschland eine Scheibe von abschneiden könnten. Aber alles in Allem bevorzuge ich doch das Land in dem ich groß geworden bin.

Was ich vermissen werde ist die lockere Art der Iren. Der Chef wird einfach mit seinem Vornamen angesprochen und wenn man jemanden anrempelt hört man eine entschuldigung anstatt dämlich angeblafft zu werden.

Dennoch bin ich froh wieder hier zu sein. Preiswertes Essen, mein Bett, mein Computer… Bin schon fleißig dabei den ein wenig zu optimieren und mit den Erfahrungen aus Irland zu optimieren. Ich weiß, dass keiner meiner irischen Kollegen das hier lesen wird, aber „Guys, you were awesome!“.

Ich habe viel gelernt. Sowohl über die Kultur, als auch über die Arbeitsweise der Iren. Was mich besonders überrascht hat ist die Tatsache, das uns zur Vorbereitung gesagt wurde „Leute, erwartet nicht da irgendwas technisches zu lernen. Ihr seid da um Englisch zu lernen!“

Nun, bisher habe ich nirgends soviele interessante und neue Sachen gesehen. Vielleicht nicht alles optimal, aber doch zumindest anders. Ja, ich mochte es da unwahrscheinlich! Ich weine den Leuten und den Arbeiten dort mehr als nur eine Träne hinterher. Das ändert nichts an der Tatsache das Irland vermutlich nicht der richtige Ort für mich zum Arbeiten ist.

Ich möchte dem Leonardo-Da-Vinci Projekt dafür danken, dass es uns diese Möglichkeit geboten hat.

Da sind noch so viele Dinge die ich gerne schreiben würde. Die einen positiv, die einen nicht so positiv. Aber ich möchte diesen Blog hier nicht sprengen und endlich mit meinem Bericht anfangen. Von daher:

Vielen Dank fürs Lesen! Stattet Irland mal einen Besuch ab, und wenn ihr mal in Italien eine Tour durch Rome oder so machen möchtet: Dark Rome (mein Arbeitgeber in Irland) ist ein guter Ansprechpartner. Engagierte Leute, mit viel Freude am Job. Die Bewertungen im Internet sprechen für sich, und meine Einblicke da ließen auch nur positives an Dark Rome schließen. 😉 Genug der Werbung, bis dann!

Euer Lars

Hey there!

I am glad to tell you: This is the last Saturday in Ireland. YES!

We were told, that the longer you are here, the longer you want to stay here. No. I think, that doesn´t fit to anyone of us. Nearly everyone has enough now. Don´t understand me wrong, it is very nice here and I really, REALLY like my workplace here. But I don´t want to stay here any longer. I really look forward the flight next week.

My week was a week like everyone. Yesterday my company made some kind of a „Schnitzeljagd“. This was really fun. And of course there was a lot of alcohol included. 😉

I am sorry that this blog-entry is so short, but I have to do some other things. I have to write my report and do the presentation about my internship here in Ireland.

This evening is the CL-finale. I am not sure if I want to watch this with. I will definitely not go into a pub. Therefor I do not care enough about football.

One week remaining!! 😀

cu

Yes, I am not sure what to write down here, because the topic says everything.

This is my last full week here and now it´s really time to go home. I have enough. I´ve seen more than the most irish people, I „enjoyed“ the drinking-culture here but with every day my money says more and more „Byebye!“. I am tired, I am exhausted, and I want to go home. 8 Weeks… 6 Would have been more than enough.

I am not sure if everyone thinks like me, but I know from a few people that they do. If it would be longer than these two remaining weeks, I would say „Cheers“, go to the airport, book a last minute flight and wouldn´t look back.

I want my own bed, „my“ bathroom, „my“ kitchen. Mom, I promise you. As soon as I come back, I will cook something. I don´t know what, but I will. Really…

Naaa, maybe not on saturday. Mrs. Holstein, I invite you to go to the indian restaurant in… I don´t know. You know where it is. I forgot it. So… I pay! 😀 Markus (my Brother, not my colleague), you are also invited, if you want to join and if you have nothing better to do than to drive the whole way to Berlin…^^

Why do I write this here? I have to say: I have no idea. I am tired and bored. Whatever. 😀

Oh my gosh, I really look forward the flight next week!

Heyho!

Today I was with three other colleagues at the Giants Causeway. It was very rainy and I was all wet after this day. I think I will get a strong cold, but the hell! It was worth it. I will not say that much, just look at the pictures and enjoy. Feel free to ask me! And by the way, sorry that there are so many pictures, but I wasn´t able to decide which ones to include and which ones to exclude. Giants Causeway and the Ropebridge where just awesome!!

Heyho,

you may ask what I am doing the whole week. Yeah, what shall I say. Usually I am working and when my work-hours are over I stay there for some more hours. I don´t know what to do at „home“ and to visit some things in Dublin I am to exhausted. So I am the first one from the IT who arrives and the last one from the IT who leaves. I usually work 10 or 11 hours. No, it´s not illegal. Everything what I am doing I am doing on my own. They are telling me „Lars, go home!“. But I can´t. I don´t want to. There is enough work to do.

A colleague of mine told me, that all the users are respecting me. Sometimes they only write me, if they have a problem and not my boss. Thats very funny. 😀 Maybe not for him, but for me. 🙂

Small Update: Our Wifi seems to work now! Let´s see for how long.

And Alex, if you read this: Haha, fail. 😀 I have every password, and I can access everything without asking someone. It´s very nice to be able to do whatever I want. 😀

At Saturday some colleagues and I want to go to Giants Causeway. This will be fun, but maybe I write one more entry tomorrow.

cu

Heyho,

today I went to the Cliffs of Moher. My plan was, to make a lot of photos, enjoy the day and go home with the good feeling, that I participated on one more tour.

Yeah… I don´t want to tell you that much about today. I think, one picture shows more than I could tell you.

So… I think, I show you the picture from a colleague, which was there one day before. 🙂

https://has-anyone-seen-nick.com/gute-aussichten/img_0761/

Yes, successful day!

cu next week. 🙂

Heyho,

what shall I tell you, what do you want to hear from me? 😀

I think I show you a new friend of mine:

Her name is just Cat and she always follows me. Of course she wants to be petted.^^

Really, she´s the star of this BnB! Even if my allergy is killing me after I touched her but okay. She is so incredible fluffy! 😀

Tomorrow I have a free day, that means I will do exactly NOTHING. Sleep long, eat, sleep, go to the toilet, eat and sleep again. Maybe I will learn a little bit about scripting with Powershell. I found out how incredible useful it can be if you have to administer several Users. One of my irish colleagues uses SVN for his work with Visual Studio, and he (that means me) has to backup the repository in case of a crash of the harddrive.

Some of you may chip in with „Why didn´t you use svnsync?“. Well, to use svnsync you have to setup two repositories. That means, you have to setup a second server or client or whatever. We don´t want to install this on our server, so we had to find another option.

I wrote a small batch-Script that saves his files to our Server. I know, it´s not much, but it´s nice to say „Hey, this is my script!“. Yes, I know too that Powershell and Batch are different things, but now I want to learn more about scripting and I think, that Powershell is the best and most useful thing to learn for an administrator.

I am sorry that there was no information on ireland today, but everyone here writes about his workplace (maybe they do not do enough interesting things here in ireland? 😉 )so I decided to do this too.

There will be some more information about Ireland on sunday. I will go to the cliffs of moher.

cu!

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!

I know, my last entry is just one day old, but I wanted to differ between two different tours.

So I will give you now the pictures from my Tour to Glendalough, the Wicklow Mountains, and Kilkenny.

This time my Tour started at 8:50 so I was able to sleep a bit longer. Our Stop was Glendalough within the Wicklow Mountains. It is a very old Cemetery and an Old Abbey. The Wicklow Mountains themself do not need any explanations. They´re just awesome and wonderful!

After this we went to Kilkenny. The smallest Town in Ireland which could be called a „Town“ and the only Town which is not on the Coast of Ireland. But here, have a look on your own!

Here is Lars again,

the last few days where very hard but also very interesting. J

Yesterday I stood up at 5:30 to be as early as possible on the starting point of my tour to Cork, Blarney Castle and the Rock of Cashel. I arrived just in time and the tour started. Our Tourguide was really funny and friendly. Also his german was very well. I talked a little bit to him and I found out, that he was born in the Netherlands, studied in Southafrica and works in Ireland. Very funny guy. He was the best of my 3 Tourguides I had here in Ireland.

Our first stop was the Rock of Cashel. On this rock is a more than 1.000 years old stronghold with a cathedral, a cemetery and some Towers. It has huge importance in the Irish history. St. Patrick itself is responsible for a lot of ceremonys here and lived here a while.

Now we went to Blarneys Castle. An old Castle with the Blarney Stone on its top. The legend says, if you kiss the Blarney Stone, you become gifted with eloquence and the ability to win discussions without any problems. Well, what happens, if two people debate, which both kissed the stone? I think, they will explode…

No, I didn´t kissed the stone. Everyone does this. And I don´t want their health-problems…

But the Blarney Castle was still very interesting and the different gardens there were just awesome! One of the gardens was the “Poison Garden”. The “Flowers” were easy to get and most of them really poisonous and some of them were very deadly. Nice to see them. 😉

After this we went to Cork. It is the second biggest town in Ireland (approximately a population of 200.000) and nearly completely uninteresting. I was there for more than one hour. And really, I wouldn´t like to live there.

Even if Cork was just a joke, the Tourguide and the other both stops were worth the money!

So, here the pictures, enjoy!