The Final Entry

Hello Everyone,

I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to update the Blog until now and with this entry I will summarize my last week in Belfast.

Well to be fair most of the week I was lying in bed because I had a terrible cold, which I still haven’t fully recovered from. 🙁 It all started on Monday evening and things got worse on Tuesday, it was a good thing that the other guys went on their tour to Giant’s Causeway so I could at least get some rest. But before I got into bet to get the needed sleep I went to the city center to buy souvenirs for my family and friends, which made my cold only worse I think but still, I didn’t want to go back to Germany empty handed.
The next day I felt a little better and luckily the fever went down a bit so I was able to go to Cultra to say my final goodbyes to everyone at work and to return the stuff we borrowed. I arrived at Cultra around noon and I was able to eat a last lunch with Graham, ok it was only soup so no real lunch but better than nothing. I took pictures with me and my colleagues and thank everyone for their hospitality, we said our farewells and I went back to Belfast. The rest of the day I spend packing my stuff and sleeping.
On Thursday morning we left for Dublin to spend at least one day in the capital of the republic of Ireland, our bus left at 10 and we arrived in Dublin at around 12:30. We where invited to store our stuff at the apartment of Erik and Stefan and they gave us a warm welcome, their apartment was just awesome and we all got a little jealous. We spend the rest of the day wandering around Dublin and where amazed how different it from Belfast, we sat in a park and enjoyed the sun, went to a tea house where I had one of the best chai teas ever, ate a burrito and spend another few hours at Erik and Stefan’s apartment. At around 11pm our Taxi arrived to take us to the to Dublin airport, our driver was a little overwhelmed by the amount of luggage we had, so we had to take most of our belonging onto our laps.  Our flight left at 7:35 so we had to kill more than 8 hours, a few of us slept on the floor, other spent the time watching videos, reading or exploring the terminal.
After the check in we where reunited with our classmates and we left Ireland for Germany.
The flight was more like a torture for me, because of my cold I couldn’t adjust to the  pressure changes in the cabin which lead to painful ear pressure and inflammation of the middle ear. After we landed I got my suitcase a fast as possible and got picked by my dad at the airport.
I was glad to be back home but I couldn’t really enjoy it because of the pain in my ears, so I had to go to a first aid ward to get medication and just went to sleep.

Well that’s it my last entry, again I’m sorry it’s a bit short and all but I’m still sick ;), I hope you enjoyed reading my entries and got a, more or less, good impression of how my life in Belfast was like.

Thanks for reading!

Yours sincerely,

Tobias

#24 – finally home

So Germany got me back, finally!

The flight home was nice and without any delay, even though we had to be at the airport quite early. I slept most of the time in the airplane, as I did not have had any sleep in the night before.

Back in Berlin our group scattered quite fast, as everyone got picked up by relatives – My girlfriend was waiting for me. We took the taxi home as that was more convenient and quick. Back home nothing much happened until we went for dinner to an Italian restaurant. I obviously went to bed early and slept 13 hours through.

This was my last entry into this Blog. I hope you had fun reading.

Bye everyone!

I am back…

Hi Guy’s ,

this is my last entry and I am back in my homeland.So I talk german.

Also gestern kamen wir 10:30 Uhr in Deutschland an.

Teilweise bin ich froh wieder in der Heimat zu sein, aber ich werde auch die geniale Zeit in Irland vermissen.

Erstmal will ich mich bei meiner Firma Wealthtrack Software Ldt. bedanken. Es war eine sehr gute Firma, die sehr viel Gedult mit mir hatte.

Dublin ist wirklich eine sehr schöne Stadt. Die Leute sind sehr freundlich, besser gelaunt als die Deutschen und sehr locker drauf.
Die Stadt selber ist einfach großartig und da ich mitten im Citycenter gewohnt habe, hatte ich es nie wirklich weit, außer zur Arbeit.

Ich habe sehr viel erlebt in Irland und habe aber dementsprechend auch sehr viel Geld in Irland ausgegeben. Ich rate aber jedem Azubi nicht so sehr auf das Geld zu achten und mehr Spaß zu haben 😉

Im ganzen kann ich mich also nicht beschweren. Natürlich gab es auch Sachen die nicht sehr positiv waren, aber die haben wir auch überlebt.

So also an alle die nach Irland möchten: Freut euch drauf und genießt es, es ist einfach der Hammer 😀

Das wars euer Erik

 

Finally there is a little bit… Deutsch!

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

 

 

End of a nice internship

Hi Guy’s

The last week is over. My last two workdays were very nice. I finished my project and at Tuesday after lunch I demonstrated it to my colleagues. They were very happy about the result. After my last day I got a little card with wishes to me from my colleagues. I was happy about that because it was a nice gesture and the praise to my project was the best present 😀 .

Yesterday was a quiet day. We relaxed at home and walked a little bit in Dublin. At 6 p.m. Stefan, Moppi and I went to Nick, Lars, Felix, Mike and Marius. In their garden we played ping-pong and did a barbeque. It was a very nice evening.
Today we eat our breakfast in the O’Sheas pub. It was delicious and after the breakfast we drank an Irish coffee ^^

At 1 p.m. our colleagues from Belfast arrived. They left their bags at out place. After a little talk we showed them the city and relaxed in the Saint Steven’s Green Park. All in all it was a very nice last day.

Now we cook our last dinner in Dublin. It was a very nice day.

Tomorrow or Saturday you can read my result about this internship.

See you in Germany 😉

Party and CL Final

HI Guy’s

 

Friday was a nice day. At work it was OK. The work was normal and I got the news, that I have holidays at Wednesday and Thursday.

So my last day is Tuesday. Now I have a little bit of stress, because I want to finish my project.

 

At home I eat something and after the dinner we met with our colleagues in a little nice pub. After some drinks we went to a club. It was a very nice night and at 5a.m. I was at home.

 

Saturday was very quiet. I bought me new shoes and food for the last week. The weather was very nice. I did nothing but I relaxing the afternoon.

In the evening I met my colleagues in the city center. We searched for a pub to watch the Champions League Final. After a long search we found a nice one.

The game was nice. In this pub, there were other German guys, which were so crazy because one girl (Bayern Munich fan) was shouting the whole time.

See you later

#22 – German Paperwork and a farewell

Mymy, German paperwork is something for itself.

How complicated can it get? I need to file up so much stuff that I am loosing track of it. Also I need to make sure Robert Doyle gets his part done as he, of course, cannot know what is necessary.

Still I believe I will manage in a timely manner and I should have everything ready by today. So I got some cake as a farewell present for my colleagues today. They really appreciated that! Guess they are much into cake here, don’t get it too often.

Even if my time here was exceptionally great I am looking forward to get home. Luckily I will have holidays then. I guess I will just be lazy then and do as less as possible.

Will tell you more about my homecoming when i am actually home! That will be my last entry then of course.

— TO BE CONTINUED, ONCE MORE —

 

Just a couple of days to go…

Hi folks, it’s me again.

 

On Friday we were going out and it was again a lot of fun. On Saturday we watched the Champions League Final and after that, some colleagues and I tried to party again but we were not fit enough after we partied hard on Friday.

 

The rest of the weekend was pretty quiet and thankfully I got two free days (Wednesday and Thursday) to prepare for my departure to Germany.

 

At work, I am preparing all the Documents I need and finishing all the projects I was working on.

 

It was a nice and interesting time here in Dublin but I will be glad to be back in Germany.

 

If there won’t happen any interesting things in the last couple of days, I won’t write any further Blog post. So you won’t see anything new from me.

 

Regards,

Markus

Middle of Week #7

Hello,

it is my last weekend in Belfast and the weather couldn’t be better I hope it stays this way for our last few days and continues this way in Germany.

My last few days at work where pretty quiet, on Wednesday my colleague left an ECR(electronic cash register) PC on my desk and asked to reinstall the operating system and install all the necessary updates, needed software and disable all unnecessary features and services for the standard user account. It wasn’t much of a challenge but still it took most of my time this day.
On Thursday Graham asked me if I could test the network equipment for an event this weekend he supported. I needed to test the functionality of the access points and the cables, I actually had to reattach the RJ45 at one of the cables because it was in an unusable shape.
Friday was my last working day and the IP camera we ordered for the Hill Climp race on 1st of June to observe the start line; for the announcer and stuff. My colleagues left me with configuring the IP camera and the needed access point for the day. After I was finished with this I left work a bit earlier.
I will be going to Cultra an on Wednesday to say my final farewells and to return the things I borrowed for our apartment, like network cables and speakers.

Today we went on a tour through Belfast to take a better look at things we haven’t been able to see or visit until now, and me being an idiot, again, forgot my SD card for the camera in my laptop :/ so I will do another round on Tuesday while the rest of the guys is on the tour to Giant’s Causeway.

I will leave you with this and a picture of a bird.

Is this your Burd?
Bird

Enjoy your weekend!

Yours sincerely,

Tobias

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