Tag: 27. Juni 2014

Friday the last day

Hello everyone,

 

today it is the last day in Belfast and we have a lot to do now.
We have to clean the whole appartment but it shouldn’t take more then 2 hours and it looks like we never been there.
Today we visited the National Museum of Northern Ireland and Graham was the guide.
I think that was nesseary because we worked there over two month and we had never seen the museum.
And we doesn’t paid for it and the tells us a lot of things about the museum.

After work Maro, me and Tim went a souvenirs shop and i bought some presents for my family.IMG_20140627_122252

The middle of the week

Hello everyone,

now there are only 3 days to go and then we are back in Germany and thats one of the last 3 articles.

Yesterday we had a meeting at Intern Europe and  we did the last paper stuff.
Now I’m writing a documention about my project at the National Museum of Northern Ireland and I’m sure that I can finish it before Friday because on Friday they want to show us the museum.
There are two museum one the Transport and the other one is the Folk Museum.After two months we hadn’t seen the museum so I think it would be time to do that.

I`m sorry that I post the article now, but I forgot it on Wednesday

Last day at work

Today was my last day at work. It was a rather relaxed day since I already finished my work the only thing I did was giving Johnny a brief overview on how he can run my Perl scripts.
We also talked a bit about how we would actually get it to work with an BMS only to realise that this could be a lot of work but it should be possible to do.
I also gave Lawrence my details in case they need help with my perl scripts. Around lunch Rosie brought in some sweets as a last gift to say goodbye and they even gave me a little card.
They even used german it might not be proper german but hey that’s what makes it even more special
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A short summary

To all of you reading this in preparation for their trip here to Belfast: You are going to have a great time here if you prepare yourself with some money in the pocket, a good book to read when the rain is forcing you to stay home and are open to meet new people and willing to chat to strangers you never met before. Most of the time people here are incredibly nice and you will have a lot of fun if you accept their way of living here and dont start questioning everything they do as they are part of one unique country which is certainly very different to other countries in Europe.

Of course the first time settling down will be a little weird but after a couple of days you will start to realize how to handle strangers on the street who often start randomly talking to you. Thats because they somehow see that you are not from Belfast and are interested in how and why you came here. A suggestion: do start telling your story and you will always either get an interesting story of their life back or even make a new friend which will make your time here in Belfast even better.

Cleaning up our apartment

In the afternoon we spent most of the time yesterday cleaning up every inch of the apartment which at the start was very frustrating but then we turned on some music and it started to be a little more entertaining especially if everyone is doing it at the same time and no one has to feel like the cleaning lady of the house. We received a check list from intern europe which is also useful to make sure nothing is forgotten but one point made me think about people in the past living in our apartments: „Throw away every poster on the walls“. Who is stupid enough to bring or buy posters and hang them on the walls? Seems like they had bad experiences in the past but this time I suppose they got lucky as our apartment is in a perfect shape and we feel no guilt about leaving the apartment to the next visitors arriving next week.

Last week @ SpeechStorm

My last week here at SpeechStorm started as the week before ended: testing, testing and MORE testing! Everyone is really working hard to get everything up and running so we can maintain our release date for the upcoming patch. Somehow I already feel sad to leave this company as I am entering a phase where my productive work is already a part of the plan and I think I could contribute a lot more in the future. So I am working my ass off to help as much as I can in my last couple of days in Belfast.