Schlagwort: Belfast

interviewt at Guardian 24 and first rain!

Hey,

On Wednesday we had an interview at Guardian 24. It was interesting but we don’t really know what we are going to do there. Tomorrow we have our first working day. It will show us what else comes next and what we will be doing in our company.

In the last days we have seen the city and have met a very funny Spaniard who lives above us. This is very good, because one speaks much more English then as in a group of German people.

Today it started raining in Belfast (I add a picture tomorrow). And we had to buy a bus ticket because our employer is about 5 miles away. At least it is on the coast and we have a beautiful place there to spend our breaks.

I’m excited what kind of work we will do for the company and how the employees are. I  am curious what comes next and what will happen in the following weeks.

more coming soon.

First days in Ireland

After we landed in Dublin, we traveled by bus to Belfast. There we checked out our apartments.  The apartments are ok and new, they are a little small but it’s ok.. The last two days we explored the city, bought food, checked out the pubs and the Irish Guinness!

My first thought when we were there was that I landed in a dirty ghost town. Nobody was there, trash on the street and dilapidated houses and creepy people. But today in the morning the street was full with cars and people and the most trash was away. … What has happened … OH the students are back!

Today we had a meeting by Rsm Tenon, we learned nothing really new, only a few organizational things. On Wednesday I have an interview with two colleagues at Guardian24.

I will report my first experiences in my next blog.

Of frozen pizza and orange juice or the search for Lidl

It is now the third day in Belfast and I have, more or less, settled in. The main goal of the last two days was to secure our (our ,that is my flatmates and me) main supply of food, water and other things to secure our survival in this foreign country.
For this we went on the quest to find the holy halls of Lidl, where treasure of affordable prices where promised by our predecessors. And after Minutes of consulting the holy institution  of Google Maps© we found a Lidl and went on a journey which would make Bilbo Baggins proud.
After a hellish 2,6 miles of road and evading cars, because we where looking in the wrong direction (left-hand driving is so wrong on so many levels ;)) , we arrived at our destination with a yellow sun of Lidl rising before us.
We ventured into the holy halls of Lidl and returned with precious treasure containing water, frozen pizza (the best friend of every humble man), bread, cereals (the breakfast of true man) and other small items of importance, like shaving cream.
Our return trip took longer than expected, mainly because we did not account for the additional weight of our loot, and the 2,6 miles back felt more like 5 miles.
But at the end of the day our small Party was victorious and was rewarded with warm pizza, a cold cola and a good conversation over a shared meal.
I hope you enjoyed my creative writing style, because the truth is not much has happened until now.
I arrived in Belfast, had a little look around the neighborhood and went shopping the next day for food and supplies. In the evening we went to the local pub and had a Guinness, which tastes way better here than in Germany by the way.
Today we had meeting at RMS Tenon for a small introduction and going over some details for my/our stay in Belfast, after that we had a small walk around the city center and bought ourselves some simcards.
Tomorrow I will be introduced to my workplace, I am very excited because I still do not know what to expect.

Read you soon

Yours sincerely

Tobias

 

P.S.

Please excuse the lack of Pictures but I will upload some pictures with my next entry.

 

Belfast here i come

In less than 3 weeks I will sit in a plane headed for Dublin Airport, from which I take a bus and leave for my final destination  Belfast, the capital of North Ireland. I’m really excited what wonders may await me in the country of  myths and ledgends, maybe I’ll meet a leprechaun or stumble upon a pot of gold beneath a rainbow.

 

While the main purpose of my visit is to gather work experiance I want to see the country I will be working in.
In Belfast I want to visit the city center with its shops and pubs, the grand city hall and the many old churches and castles.

Belfast City Hall (taken from Wiki Commons)

 

Outside of Belfast I will travel north to see the Giant’s Causeway and in the south I will look down the Cliffs of Moher.