{"id":265,"date":"2025-05-02T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/?p=265"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T07:06:08","slug":"week-4-part-1-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/2025\/05\/02\/week-4-part-1-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 Part 1 – Blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Monday, we checked out of our beloved hotel and decided to treat ourselves to brunch before returning to our charming home… We found the cutest little caf\u00e9 with an Alice in Wonderland<\/em> theme, and everything looked super promising… until the power suddenly went out. At first, we thought it\u2019d be a quick flicker, but then we noticed the shops nearby also had no electricity or phone signal. Not a good sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Realizing our food dreams weren\u2019t going to come true, we luckily didn\u2019t wait around. Turns out the power and network didn\u2019t come back until late in the evening. We figured we\u2019d just head back to our apartment, but surprise: the metro wasn\u2019t running either. So began our quest to find a functioning bus. It was total chaos. Buses randomly changing stops, traffic lights down, and a street festival happening in the same area (why not, right?). After what felt like a side quest in a video game, we squeezed into a packed bus and somehow made it home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone at the apartment was also low-key panicking but in that \u201cthis is so bad it\u2019s funny\u201d<\/em> way. At first, we had spotty signal, but by the afternoon, it was completely gone. It was honestly a little spooky not knowing what was going on and not being able to reach anyone. Still, we were lucky. I heard some people got stuck in gondolas, elevators, or were even evacuated from long-distance trains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fun fact (or not): that was also the day we were supposed to meet our instructors. Coincidence that the entire city\/country shuts down just as they landed? Hmm…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, the meeting got moved to Tuesday. First, they visited Jacky and Ruben\u2019s company, and later they came by our lovely shared apartment for the full Valencia housing experience<\/em>. After a short catch-up, we headed to a beachside restaurant I\u2019d found on TikTok for some classic paella. We went big and ordered the lobster paella and wow, it was chef\u2019s kiss<\/em>. At least for Herr Bavar and me. The others either thought it was just okay or didn\u2019t like it at all. Not everyone has the tastebuds of a connoisseur, I guess!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also super cold and windy at the restaurant, so fingers crossed no one catches a cold. After a few rounds of beer, Agua de Valencia, and incredibly sophisticated<\/em> conversations about RAID 5, sausage lollipops, and \u201cLutschter\u201d (our new term for a lobster you lick??), we called it a night. It was really nice seeing familiar faces again!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, it was back to work for me. I continued tinkering with my little AI project. Google Colab has some seriously cool tools and it\u2019s a great place to start if you want to dip your toes into AI stuff. Oh, and I tried Popeyes for the first time. Let\u2019s just say… it ranks second to last on my fast food chicken wing list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Monday, we checked out of our beloved hotel and decided to treat ourselves to brunch before returning to our charming home… We found the cutest little caf\u00e9 with an Alice in Wonderland theme, and everything looked super promising… until the power suddenly went out. At first, we thought it\u2019d be a quick flicker, but … \u201eWeek 4 Part 1 – Blackout\u201c<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userblogs.fu-berlin.de\/afibinspain2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}