Today the others went for the game of thrones tour which took about 9 hours. i stayed at home because i had a lot of sleep to catch up on and because game of thrones doesn’t interest me. the day was very relaxed and i used it to clean up and watch series. when the others came back completely exhausted from their tour we talked about it for a while and then everyone went to bed. except me writing this blog entry now.
Monat: Mai 2019
Bargain is the key
Today I went early out and first thing I did was to go at a supermarket to get something to drink for my journey (it was a very warm day). I took as usual the bus directly to the London Eye and after one and a half hour I finally arrived there. First I walked around to get some pictures for my gallery.
GoT Tour
Today we did the Got bus tour. It is a 9 hours long tour covering some of the places that were used filming for Game of Thrones episodes and some of the other tourists attractions. This tour will cost you 50£ which is not as much as it sounds to be because it also includes the tickets for the ropebridge and the museum as well as the merchshop that is builded nearby tha giants causeway. But let’s start right at the beginning. The tour starts at 7:45 which means we had to wake up realy early for normal saturday morning, because we had to walk approximatly 20 minutes till we arrived at the starting point and everyone of us tought we should eat some breakfast in advance. The first thing they old us about the tour is that it will be a 18+ tour, well Game of Thrones is a 18+ show so no suprise there. After a short introduction from our tour guide he told us that all the tour guides they have are extras in Game of Thrones, ours was a wildling and some other smaller roles. So we got to here some storys that you normally would not hear. For some of the filming locations he also had a picture of how it looked like in the film, while filming and he himself was standing in a possition that gave us enarly the same view the camera had for this moment. It is unbelievable how big the difference sometimes was. We also got to see 2 of the 10 Doors of Thrones that exists in Northern Ireland. For the 1 hour trip back to belfast we watched a episode of GoT.
Finally weekend!
My work was today as usually, nothing special. I continued programming and I had a meeting with a colleague about the project. After the meeting I got a mail.
I got now a mail from my school about the English course. My school doesn’t know what else they can do, so I am not obliged to do this course. I searched online for other courses and found some good ones. Unfortunately, you always have to start with the lowest level which is very annoying.
A week that seems to be long
Well the last time i wrote about work is already way in the past and i want to write about it now as a pre evaluation before my internship here is comming to an end. Sometimes it is going to be a little bit hectical at work, especially if something new is pushed onto git from our developer, but learning to work as detailed and good as posible under stress and with a certain deadline is always good.
„A week that seems to be long“ weiterlesen
Two very Calm Days
The Thursday was a pretty calm day „Two very Calm Days“ weiterlesen
Building Tables
So Yesterday me and Adria basically finished cleaning out the room. After we were done carrying everything but the tables out my boss told me to use Groupcall to extract some data we were missing about attendance from schools. „Building Tables“ weiterlesen
Finally good news (at least for some of us)!
Today we got another email from our school. The project manager told us, that we just have to do the English test online and not the course, but he wasn’t 100% sure so he said he would give us more information soon.
I also tried to access the course, but it is still not working…
I showed one of my colleagues my program, so far so good. Now they got more information which means for me that I have to do a lot of researches in order to rewrite half of my program.
Language is not always important
One of the more important lessons to learn is that sometimes it is not about the language but about understanding each other in some way. I am going to the BFC every Thursday but since last Thursday i am going there to play 1 to 2 matches of chess with another player that is nearly at the same level then me. The thing that is making this special is that he is a deaf and mute person and english is not his mothertounge so even if we write something down it will not always be understood in the way we want. So what i learned is that sometimes it really is more about what your body and actions is sending as a message and not the actual language. Even then we were able to communicate to each other about me being there for 2 more of these meetings and some more rounds of chess and on the other side you can somehow see that he is arriving at these meetings with a good mood and always looking forward to playing chess.
Reorganising a room
So these last two days at work I had the task of „reorganising“ the printer room into another schooling room. Reorganising is a bit of a euphemism, essentially we are going to take everything out of the room and once we did that we will probably lay some new cables and then furnish the room with „new“ tables and computers. „Reorganising a room“ weiterlesen