{"id":985,"date":"2017-06-14T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/?p=985"},"modified":"2017-06-14T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:25:18","slug":"understanding-and-speaking-belfastian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/2017\/06\/14\/understanding-and-speaking-belfastian\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding and speaking Belfastian"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was really cocky the first few weeks. I thought I understood the Belfastians very well. I understood Sean, Josh and the most of the other people in the bureau very clearly. But then, this one Clarity guy appeared and my ego was put to rest. I did not grasp any of what this man said at all. Gladly, he talked to Sean and\/or Stuart (boss of DATACTICS) most of the time. I can still see myself: standing in close proximity, smiling, nodding and acting like I’m understanding every word. I faked it well. <\/p>\n

A similar situation is found on the ground floor of the new office. The receptionist Trevor (for some reason this is a name I memorized immediately) is dedicated to always use his unclassifiable accent. On a lighter note: We only exchange greetings and goodbyes. There is not much to misunderstand about that. As for the speaking aspect, I had a rather weird experience. On some days I speak better than on others. I got used to it by now, that’s commonplace. But this week I had a conversation with a guy in the company about the rack in the office. We had to switch out one of the switches on site, in order to have a better throughput. We talked about the possible approach. And I personally think that was the best spoken English I delivered (in Belfast) yet. What was so weird about it? It was a dialogue with a person whose mother tongue is German. He is an Austrian employee of the company who usually works abroad. I don’t even know why we didn’t talk in German at that time. We were probably both too lazy to initiate it.<\/p>\n

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The new rack, with the new switch in the middle (yes, it’s messy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another one of those philosophy insights? Done. It’s time to talk about work again. The office move is over and only two and a half weeks to go. I completed designing the floor and network map. And I actually was about to continue with the cloud project when Josh opened up about another task. He wants to implement a (NAT) gateway machine in the AWS environment (VPC), because AWS only gives away 5 public IP addresses (insufficient for the company). Amazon offers the opportunity to use NAT gateways for a price. Why not configure a system as a NAT gateway ourselves? This is definitely the right job for a network intern. I am confident that I can finish this job soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was really cocky the first few weeks. I thought I understood the Belfastians very well. I understood Sean, Josh and the most of the other people in the bureau very clearly. But then, this one Clarity guy appeared and my ego was put to rest. I did not grasp any of what this man … \u201eUnderstanding and speaking Belfastian\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123948],"tags":[166,24,233944,233971,338],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marie-schmeissner","tag-belfast","tag-english","tag-randomthoughts","tag-whybelfast","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinirland2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}