Ich bin 27 Jahre alt und derzeit Fachinformatik-Azubi bei der Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
Seit mitte Februar bin ich ein "Cisco Certified Network Associate".
Today Steve and I went out into a pub to have a beer and something to eat.
Steve ordered “Bangers & Mash” and I ordered some “Chilli Beef Nachos”.
It was awesome. I never ate such good Nachos.
Before...... and after.
At work, we are trying to implement Drupal (a Content Management System) into our workflow. This should save us some time because we don’t need to create so much from scratch.
Our plans for the weekend are still the same. We still want to visit the Temple Bar District.
That’s all folks. I think I’ll pass my next entry at the weekend so that I have more time to see and experience something.
Now we have about one and a half weeks behind us and there is one thing I recognized just today, the changes in the weather.
I don’t know how to explain it, because it is totally weird. When we were visiting the Guinness Storehouse on Monday last week, I figured out that the wind, despite the normal temperatures, could be terrible.
But since today afternoon I know for sure. It is like a hurricane just as I am writing these letters. For me as a smoker that is not allowed to smoke inside it is like a punishment.
It’s like the wind wants to annoy me. Besides that, it is not really possible to walk outside without some protective walls because the wind will play with you and push you around.
If you ignore the wind (if possible) the weather is pretty fine, it’s not too cold or too warm.
At work it is going to become more IT related. I am now responsible (together with a colleague) to write some PHP functions for our reporting software and later I may be able to finally use some of my networking skills when we are testing the system on the streets.
This time there are no pictures that I could come up with. We didn’t go out the last couple of days. Maybe at the weekend, when there is more time to go out. But when we do, we will try to take a look at the Temple Bar District. Maybe we find some interesting spots and/or people.
Today, my colleagues and I were out for a little sightseeing tour on our own.
We went to the harbour and made a lot of photos. We saw a lot of pubs and some really cool old buildings. We also took some pictures of the River Liffey and some bridges that cross it.
We also went through the St. Stevens Green near our apartment.
I was also able to take a picture of the office I work in.
At work, we are trying to customize a parking machine in that way, that people are able to pay their parking ticket with an SMS without registering somewhere.
I think that this is a pretty cool project and that I will learn a lot about electrical engineering.
On our way home, we found some curiosities. You can see one of them beneath this sentence.
We also had to make some photos of other smaller memorials or bigger statues.
The new working week begins in a way the last ended, with a beer.
We are now here in Dublin for five days and everybody survived the first days of work.
Sunday was regular weekend. We bought some stuff for the household and something to eat.
But we didn’t go out or something like that. We were just walking around looking for other possibilities to shop and so on.
On Monday we had a short meeting with Margaret Purdy from Internsplus. She gave us additional information about our working places and helped me and my three colleagues to get a bigger apartment on Tuesday. We had some problems with the new apartment but they were solved Wednesday.
I finally got to know my workplace. It’s Gerriko Technologies and the office is right beside Margaret’s office located at the Guinness Enterprise Centre.
Diana (my boss) is very kind and the other colleagues are very friendly too.
The job itself is not that IT (e.g. Personal Computer, Server and so on) related as I thought but there is a lot of electrical engineering involved in the current project which is fun too.
After the meeting with Margaret we were visiting the Guinness Storehouse. It was pretty interesting and we were also able to craft “The Perfect Pint”. We even got a certificate for that.
We also got the possibility to get a free sample of Guinness on our tour.
Here is a small overview of the Guinness Storehouse.
Later that day we were in an O2 Store to buy some Prepaid Cards and after that we went to Supermacs for lunch.
Because of the fact that my work place is not that related to PCs, I am right now learning the basics of electrical engineering and was also able to solder some circuits.
That’s about all for now.
On the Weekend I plan to make some kind of sightseeing inside of Dublin and make a couple of pictures for the Blog and my family at home and in Bavaria.
Here is a first impression of what you (hopefully) can await.
today our Journey starts. At about 11:20 a.m. the departure began and we were getting excited more and more.
We arrived at 12:36 p.m. at the Dublin Airport. The flight went really smooth with only minor turbulences.
The weather was awesome at our arrival. The Sun was shining and it was pretty warm outside.
After we left the airport, we were brought to our accommodations here in Dublin by car.
Following are two pictures I made while we were driving through the city.
After the check in at our apartment, located at Lad Lane, we took the chance to discover some of our surrounding area.
We found some interessting spots, like Pubs and some possibilities to buy some food.
We „visited“ a Burger King restaurant and were absolutly shocked about the price differences between Berlin and Dublin.
If we want to go to the shopping sites, we have to cross a small canal.
The possibilities to cross it look like the following:
We still have to buy some things that we need. Like Toiletepaper or some cheap dishtowels.
Our apartment itself is functional but clean, not more. Right now we are four people in here but the apartment is way too small. It would only suite two.
The kitchen is relatively small but should meet our needs.
The view from our balcony is really pretty. I will try to make a photo at sunset on the next days but the view at about 14 p.m. is also pretty nice.
This was our first day in Dublin. Hopefully the other days will be at least the same or even better.
As for me, I am enjoying a small packet of salty snack biscuits and let the day end.
Heute, am Montag den 18.03.2013, haben wir eine kleine Einführung in das Blog-System, welches wir in Irland nutzen dürfen.
Um ein wenig vertrauter mit dem Blog-System zu werden, erstellen wir derzeit alle unseren ersten Blogeintrag.
Neben dem einfachen schreiben, üben wir gleichzeitig noch Bilder und Videos (von z.B. Youtube) mit in den Blog einzubinden.
Auf den Straßen von Dublin:
10 Dinge die man über Dublin wissen sollte (englisch):
