Kategorie: Belfast

Hello everyone!

I am so glad to be back in Berlin and I am also glad to be at my old workplace again. I really missed the S-Bahn and that constantly waiting for the bus which is always late. Even if I didn’t get my 10€ Döner is stil got one for 5€ and that is kinda the same but also tasted really good. It feels good to have a regulated day again with regulated working times and regulated shoping times.

There is that one song of Peter Fox I had constantly in my mind while we were on our way back to germany and I think I just post it here.

Hello everyone!

So people this is it! Just a few more hours to go and then we are sitting in the airplane ready to start and to see our beloved City, Berlin. We are here now for like 12 hours all sitting together and discussing all of our experience we made in our 8 weeks. I would really love to stay some more time but the time is over and my people needs me. I wonder if some things have changed in that time. When you are rigth there you don’t really notice it because you are confronted with it the hole time but when you are gone for some time the changes can be really big and hard to take. I already heard that some new people joined our group and I don’t know them and I can’t say if I even like them but now those people are there. I just hope that I can go back to my normal life really quickly but I don’t think it will be easy.

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.

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.

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.

Hello everyone!

Yes now it is finally coming to an end. This is our last week Max, Tim and I have to work at Concentrix together with Peter. I enjoined working here a lot because all the people are so nice to us like Peter or Chris from the reception. Our jobs were simple and we did them well and now it is all ogre. We promised Peter that when he comes to Berlin(again) that we go and visit some bars and clubs with him and have a drink. Next week we will all go back to our work placements in germany.

Today Martin, Tim and I headed to the bushmill distillery. Our tour started at 9am we headed to the botanic train station and hopped on the train it took us 1hr 20min to reach colerine train station after waiting for around 30 minutes we took a bus that drove us directly to the bushmills distillery. We arrived a few minutes before the distillery openes we decided to not take the first tour since it was pretty crowded instead we went to the gift shop to see what they offer and to eat some lunch in the cafetaria. We took the tour at 1pm the tour is roughly 40 minutes long. It was definitely worth it to learn how whiskey is made. After the tour ends everyone was allowed to test one kind of the different whiskeys.
Sadly we weren’t allowed to take pictures during the tour.

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This is it man. This is our last weekend we have here in Belfast and for me I can say that it was an awsome weekend. First we had to celebrate Tims birthday wich was quite nice. Then we watched that soccer game germany versus Ghana and over the weekend itself I went to the Q-Con everyday from Friday to Sunday. Overall I can say that I really love Belfast and Ireland itself but I really have to get back to germany. More and more people ask me when I will be back and now I can say it is just 6 days from now on.