Tag: 25. Juni 2014

Last week

Just in the mid of the last week we had to accomplish another big task Tony gave us. Today we had to go through all buildings on all floors and write down the telephone extension numbers of every single phone. All in all I guess it were over 1000 phones and it took a lot of time. After that we had to move some PCs to other desks because a big contractor needed more space for it’s employees. But like the german saying „Too many cooks spoil the broth“, it was a big mess in the end and we had to exchange a lot more equipment then we were told.

In the afternoon me and my flat-mates started to sort out all our stuff we’ve got in the apartment. The time here in Belfast comes to an end and I think it’s worth to spend the time now instead of having a stressful Friday where every one is rushing around. I hope that the luggage that I carry with me hasn’t got too much overweight since I’ve bought new stuff and it feels a bit heavier then just 2 kilos.

Advice Nr.3

Hey everyone,

time for a new advice. 🙂 We all know that communication is a big part of our life. How can you keep in touch with someone?

Buy a phonecard!

It can be very expensive for you, if you take a phone call or use the mobile internet with a phonecard from your home country. Therefore I advice you to buy a prepaid card (in the new country). If you travel in a group it is useful, that all people of you buy a prepaid card from the same provider. You have a big range which provider you could choose. The most of them have a nice offer for travellers. You can book a lot of options. As an example a flat rate for any phone calls in Ireland combined with 200mb of mobile internet and 30 minutes to phone in your home country (that was the constellation that I chossed). I do not want to make any promotion, because of this I am telling you that you only need (the common run) 20€ for a month.

Be careful!

Your flat rate for any phone calls will only work in your own country! If you are living in the „Republic of Ireland“ you are not able to use your phone card in „Northern ireland“. There are both independent countrys! The same applies to people who living in „Northern Ireland“.

Use your credit sparingly! It is useful to have enough credits in the case of an emergency.

Area codes:

The area code for the „Republic of Ireland“ is 00(+) 353
The area code for „Northern Ireland“ is 00(+) 44
The area code for „Germany“ is 00(+) 49

Yours George

Running Out Of Time

I haven’t checked but I think I might be the last person to tell you that this is our last week here in Ireland. In fact, it’s not even a whole week anymore and I am sad to leave System Dynamics and Ireland. I enjoyed the time here very much and I have seen more of the country than a lot of the Irish ever did. I have, however, left a ton of places that are worth visiting and I know a lot of the places that are worth visiting again.

I just want to give you an overview over the last couple of days.

I haven’t really done anything on Sunday because I was pretty exhausted from the week that lay behind me. There was a party at the house that I didn’t join because I wasn’t in the mood to be around a lot of people. The sun has also gotten to me pretty bad on Saturday and I was minding my sunburn and tried to ignore the mild headache that was probably due to dehydration. The party was a welcoming party for Thomas, Anne’s son who lives in Australia for almost 7 years now. He brought his wife who is from Cork and their Daughter Saoirse who was born in Australia. They’re here for Saoirse’s christening, Anne’s 60th and some other event but I forgot what that was.

On Monday, I took care of all the Europass paperwork and started to get rid of any lose ends to my work here. There are still a couple of cables in the rack that I have put there to get rid of other cables that are just in the way of everything but I didn’t get around to switching them and Eamonn seemed afraid to do it so I guess I’m not going to mess with it and just remove the surplus cables again.

I ordered a MacBook Air yesterday for 1366 € with 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM, i5 processor and an external drive as well as 2 adapters for Ethernet and VGA. I felt filthy afterwards but I guess the good thing is that it was neither my money nor my responsibility once the thing gets here. I ordered it for one of the managers who needed it for mobility reasons.

I’m going to have a “full Irish” breakfast in an hour or so with Eamonn. It’s going to be my first ever and my last for now. I’m looking forward to it because I keep snacking on nuts and raisins.

Tomorrow I’m going to bring in some cake that I will buy later today at Lidl. I think it’s going to be some kind of double chocolate fudge thing and maybe carrot cake to give everybody a false sense of security about eating healthy. After all, vegetable cakes can’t be bad, right?! I’m scheduled to go to the Ferryman with Linda, Eamonn and Genevieve and whoever else would like to join us for a pint.

Friday is going to be quite a stressful day at least half of the day. I’m going to work in the morning pretty much just to say my goodbyes and clean up my desk. Around 11am, I have to hurry to Margaret to give her a final report on how the internship went. The Derrians are arriving at Dublin Airport sometime between 1pm and 2pm and the plan is to stash their luggage in my room at Anne’s house and go into city center because they want to check out the Guinness Storehouse. In the evening we’ll go out and buy beer (probably Budweiser or Carlsberg) and snacks and head to the airport to stay the night and wait for our flight on Saturday morning.

I am also working on something that you will get to see in my last post on Sunday. I enjoy working on it so I hope you’ll enjoy seeing what it is.

Stay tuned, Angelo

We have entered the final week of our internship

Hi there!

Yep, the title is the vital point this week. Now we gradually have to plan our return journey to Germany. For today it’s planned to mop the floors of our apartement. And because of my heartburn last week, I really have to struggle with the amount of food now. I even have to share it with my colleages in the neighbor apartment, because it’s impossible for me to eat five pizza, fries and a baguette in the 3 remaining days. Poor me! 😀 In terms of work I will do my final steps now, because I have to use the remaining time with Christy for the completion of my Euro Pass formulars. The last days I have read the Google documentation about the rendering of CSS and co., because the Google Page Speed site pointed out some render blocking CCS issues at our page.