So I am back :-). And to answer some people's questions, yes, I am alive and well, just a bit stressed out after the Unitech midterm week. Also I am very excited about Galway.... in 2 days I'll already be sleeping at my new place, wow, incredible.
I think this blog will be about movies :-). I have discovered that going to the cinema by myself is awesome. You would not believe how many people I have met, Maria and Carlos from Brazil, Aileen from Ireland, a sweet girl from Germany and so on... I never thought the cinema was a social place, but it truly is. But naturally it's also about the movies and I have nearly seen all the ones that are being shown currently...
I just come home from seeing "The King's Speech". What an amazing, stunning, lovable movie. Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush are incredible! I still have no clue how Colin Firth managed to play this role so absolutely convincingly! I recommend it to everyone.
127 Hours... It's about a young man getting stuck while climbing... Basically his hand gets jammed between two rocks and he can neither get the hand out nor move the rock. So... if they TELL you before going into the cinema, that there is a REALLY bad scene in this movie and if you REALLY want to go watch it (obviously after you have bought the ticket) everyone knows what's gonna happen. The movie is good, but not great. The main story is quite alright but some of the scenes where the man is thinking back to his life are boring and way too cheesy. So I guess if you enjoy hearing bones crack and blood flow it's your kind of movie ;-).
Gullliver's Travel. Saw that in 3D, was fun, entertainment, but nothing more.
The Way Back. Absolutely brilliant, dramatic and you really feel with the people trying to escape! I think that this is the absolutely BEST movie out there currently.
Meet the parents: little Fockers. Ehm yes, how come I went to see this? I'm sure all of you who know me are REALLY confused now ;-). I guess I planned on going to the cinema and when I got there this was the only movie that was running in the next hour, so I really had no other choice... It was entertainment, but rather boring and a totally weird sense of humour... not for me at all.
Burlesque. Went to see this because the ones I was with absolutely wanted to go see Chatroom and I refused. The movie was far better than I expected. If you enjoy musical movies then this is for you, some amazing performances, good singers and for the guys, nice girls to look at ;-).
The Chronicles of Narnia - The voyage of the dawn treader. My FIRST 3D movie ever, it was good, never red the books, never saw the other movies, but I enjoyed it.
The Tourist. Very entertaining, awesome and unexpected twists and who doesn't like Italy? Go see :-)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. What can I say... it's the movie of one of the greatest books I ever red and I have to say I was for the first time a bit disappointed. They travel, they camp in the woods, they camp on the rock, they camp,... It's a bit boring and I have to say that once is more than enough... As with the other movies, I saw all of them more than once and enjoyed them the second time as well, but this one???
Tangled. Cute, funny, entertaining, but that's it.
WOW, that is 10 movies! And I have one more...
True Grit. Good, but very challenging to understand those cowboys with there accents :-). Enjoyed it.
And another one:
The Swan. Ok, really WTF??? This movie is the craziest thing I have seen in a long time. I'm sure some artistic people would say it's the most amazing movie ever. I say it is REALLY complicated, but even though I think I understand it, it's stupid in my opinion. This girl (Natalie Portman) is the white swan impersonated... She is good, aims at perfection and is ambitious. She is then given the role of the swan queen in Swan Lake, but the boss is not happy with her performance of the black swan (the seductive, evil swan). So what basically happens is that she goes down a bad road in her real life and eventually she goes completely crazy. So she gets so crazy that she has hallucinations and constantly fears that Lily wants to steal her role. The whole crazy story ends with the performance and the white swan killing herself while at the same time Natalie Portman (or well the crazy girl she plays) dying. And that's the end! So seriously, don't waste your money on this.
Ok, now it's late and your movie critic ;-) has to go to bed.
xoxo from Dublin
Samstag, 8. Januar 2011
Freitag, 17. Dezember 2010
Last Days
So today was my first "free day" as I had my last lecture yesterday from 10 to 12. I have to say I liked this day a lot for several reasons :-).
At first it was business and I handed in my essay :-) Still can't believe I actually managed to write two essays... we won't talk about the quality now as I really have no clue how they turned out... Probably acceptable, but certainly not brilliant.
I left the house at around 11 and went to town. Already the ride on the Luas (haha, yeah I know, I wrote it and then I realised what I wrote and I just left it so you can have a laugh as well) was quite eventful... Talked to two people and my ticket got checked... I had one - obviously - while others didn't and made an entertaining scene, at least I thought so... The Luas stopped and continued once those 4 people without a ticket were outside. I could describe the type now... you meet them sometimes in Dublin, always the same, but I'm not sure if this is going to be politically or whatever correct.
There's these people, you see and - ehm yeah you smell - that they do not look after themselves... Often they come in couples, both half drunk in the middle of the day and quite frequently you can observe them fighting with each other... usually about something involving money. The other day I was in the pharmacy getting some cough syrup and this couple (of the mentioned "type") wanted to purchase some baby food or something like that and lots of it... It must have cost over 50 Euro and the woman was telling the man to get out the money.... The man with his pretty drunk sounding slang said that he didn't have it... Then she said to him that he put it in his shoe or sock... So the guy starts taking off his shoes and socks and being in the state he was that proved quite difficult... The security guard was standing close-by and I eventually decided to leave and not be one of those horrible spectators ;-). And guess what? Because of all the drama I completely forgot to take my syrup with me...Bummer :-(.
Ok, back to the topic... So I was walking down Grafton Street and I decided to go into that really POSH shop Brown Thomas... Wow, I tell you, it was crazy! They have all the really posh brands in there and I saw something crazily funny... Earphone-covers with lots of bling-bling for 100.99 Euro! It was a bit after the motto "if you don't know what to do with your money anymore"... For a taste of it: http://www.brownthomas.com/ even their website is posh! LOL
So after that experience I finally went into Stephen's Green Park and it's really nice... Pictures on facebook.
After that I went for lunch at Wagamamas and then I went into the shopping center. Later on I went for a coffee and met this lady who invited me to a tea and a cake :-). We talked for at least half an hour and it was REALLY funny... Haha, she told me what she thinks about Switzerland and I have honestly never heard anything further away from the truth... She said only millionaires live in Switzerland and she'd like to see it but she could never afford it and so on :-). Well, I sure wouldn't mind being a millionaire, but well REALITY check ;). Anyway, I had a good time.
When I was walking back to the Luas after six I was really cold... And I was wearing thermal underwear, jeans, warm socks, sneakers and a very warm winter jacket with a thick hat and a scarf and gloves. I could still feel the cold everywhere ;-)... and guess what I see?! These Irish are NUTS, honestly... I saw two girls on the way back with high-heel sandals and a mini-skirt... not even tights! I saw their bare legs and feet and I saw a man with shorts and flip-flops! It's crazy! It was below zero degrees and they walk around as if it were summer!
Ok, I think there was more to say... Ah yeah right... Haha, when going back I wanted to withdraw some cash, but on every ATM on the way back from Grafton Street you have a beggar sitting next to the ATM!? I mean honestly, wtf? Why doesn't the police or anyone do anything against that, it is sooo annoying when you get money from the ATM and you are constantly being asked "any tschääinsch pleeeeeez". And they honestly are like a plague in the city, they are everywhere! Most of them are just quiet and sit there with their cardboard signs.... But this morning I saw a mother with a baby in her arm, I didn't give anything to her, it just makes me angry to see that someone could be so irresponsible and try to get more money by putting a real baby in their arms! Oh and there was this other beggar in Grafton strees, wearing a t-shirt and shorts and nothing else... barefoot and he was freezing like crazy. So I actually took pity on him and went to buy a hot tea at the shop and gave it to him :-) I seem to have a heart after all *grin*.
Ok... with this I'll say goodnight. 2.5 more days in Dublin, but with the weather and all I'll be glad if my flight will make it on Monday, today's flight was 1.5 hours late already...
Everyone at home, cu soon!!!!
At first it was business and I handed in my essay :-) Still can't believe I actually managed to write two essays... we won't talk about the quality now as I really have no clue how they turned out... Probably acceptable, but certainly not brilliant.
I left the house at around 11 and went to town. Already the ride on the Luas (haha, yeah I know, I wrote it and then I realised what I wrote and I just left it so you can have a laugh as well) was quite eventful... Talked to two people and my ticket got checked... I had one - obviously - while others didn't and made an entertaining scene, at least I thought so... The Luas stopped and continued once those 4 people without a ticket were outside. I could describe the type now... you meet them sometimes in Dublin, always the same, but I'm not sure if this is going to be politically or whatever correct.
There's these people, you see and - ehm yeah you smell - that they do not look after themselves... Often they come in couples, both half drunk in the middle of the day and quite frequently you can observe them fighting with each other... usually about something involving money. The other day I was in the pharmacy getting some cough syrup and this couple (of the mentioned "type") wanted to purchase some baby food or something like that and lots of it... It must have cost over 50 Euro and the woman was telling the man to get out the money.... The man with his pretty drunk sounding slang said that he didn't have it... Then she said to him that he put it in his shoe or sock... So the guy starts taking off his shoes and socks and being in the state he was that proved quite difficult... The security guard was standing close-by and I eventually decided to leave and not be one of those horrible spectators ;-). And guess what? Because of all the drama I completely forgot to take my syrup with me...Bummer :-(.
Ok, back to the topic... So I was walking down Grafton Street and I decided to go into that really POSH shop Brown Thomas... Wow, I tell you, it was crazy! They have all the really posh brands in there and I saw something crazily funny... Earphone-covers with lots of bling-bling for 100.99 Euro! It was a bit after the motto "if you don't know what to do with your money anymore"... For a taste of it: http://www.brownthomas.com/ even their website is posh! LOL
So after that experience I finally went into Stephen's Green Park and it's really nice... Pictures on facebook.
After that I went for lunch at Wagamamas and then I went into the shopping center. Later on I went for a coffee and met this lady who invited me to a tea and a cake :-). We talked for at least half an hour and it was REALLY funny... Haha, she told me what she thinks about Switzerland and I have honestly never heard anything further away from the truth... She said only millionaires live in Switzerland and she'd like to see it but she could never afford it and so on :-). Well, I sure wouldn't mind being a millionaire, but well REALITY check ;). Anyway, I had a good time.
When I was walking back to the Luas after six I was really cold... And I was wearing thermal underwear, jeans, warm socks, sneakers and a very warm winter jacket with a thick hat and a scarf and gloves. I could still feel the cold everywhere ;-)... and guess what I see?! These Irish are NUTS, honestly... I saw two girls on the way back with high-heel sandals and a mini-skirt... not even tights! I saw their bare legs and feet and I saw a man with shorts and flip-flops! It's crazy! It was below zero degrees and they walk around as if it were summer!
Ok, I think there was more to say... Ah yeah right... Haha, when going back I wanted to withdraw some cash, but on every ATM on the way back from Grafton Street you have a beggar sitting next to the ATM!? I mean honestly, wtf? Why doesn't the police or anyone do anything against that, it is sooo annoying when you get money from the ATM and you are constantly being asked "any tschääinsch pleeeeeez". And they honestly are like a plague in the city, they are everywhere! Most of them are just quiet and sit there with their cardboard signs.... But this morning I saw a mother with a baby in her arm, I didn't give anything to her, it just makes me angry to see that someone could be so irresponsible and try to get more money by putting a real baby in their arms! Oh and there was this other beggar in Grafton strees, wearing a t-shirt and shorts and nothing else... barefoot and he was freezing like crazy. So I actually took pity on him and went to buy a hot tea at the shop and gave it to him :-) I seem to have a heart after all *grin*.
Ok... with this I'll say goodnight. 2.5 more days in Dublin, but with the weather and all I'll be glad if my flight will make it on Monday, today's flight was 1.5 hours late already...
Everyone at home, cu soon!!!!
Montag, 13. Dezember 2010
Snow... lots and lots of it
So I wanted to write about the snow since it started and I am finally getting aroudn to doing this :-).
For a start... Ireland and Snow just does NOT match at all! The Irish have no clue what to do with snow and there's absolutely no way of dealing with it... with enough snow, everything would just break down completely.
So where to start with this long and painful, hopefully amusing story about snow??? I guess I'll just sort of highlight some of the funny stories that happened, because I honestly can't remember everything anymore...
The first snow fell, I think, on Sunday the 28th of November or maybe it was Saturday, who knows. It was cute at first, not a lot, but during the night it just kept snowing and so the snow stayed. The Irish were completely taken aback, I mean, it does NEVER snow here in late November, NEVER :-). And so why get rid of the snow if it anyway never snows and it'll be over soon and there won't be any more of it.. Yeah right. So the snow kept on falling and falling, there were thunderstorms (yes, really), maybe even the occasional blizzard... The weather had gone completely nuts and the Irish were still too much in shock to do anything about it...
But hmm... what should they have done about it? Apparently Ireland doesn't own any snow plows and people with houses don't have snow shovels and you get it... they just had no clue how to deal with the snow. Luckily I lived on the Luas line and got to town and back faily easy, the walking was just a bit of a dangerous task, as the snow became ice.
So on Tuesday finally Johann and Jan arrived :-) Due to the snow there were many delays at Dublin Airport and it was occasionally even closed I think. The poor guys arrived into a city full of slush and snow and ice and there was no stopping it... The snow kept falling, harder than ever. Bus service broke down at certain times, Siofra's school closed because teacher living in the country couldn't get into Dublin anymore and so on. Trinity's open day on Wednesday got cancelled as it was too dangerous... a threat to the health of the visitors. I tell you... snow and slush on "polished" cobblestones is bloody dangerous.
On Thursday College was closed to all but students, staff and residents... It remained closed until Monday morning!!!
At this point (still Thursday) I still wasn't able to observe a lot of effort with regard to getting rid of the snow... And still more was falling from the sky... The funny thing... All the Irish kept saying it's a once off thing, it'll not happen again, there's no need to get winter tires for the car, no need for the city to get snow plows,... Well, I guess we'll see about that next year.
On Thursday the situation got completely out of control... At first the green Luas line stopped running because some stupid kids has apparently built a snowman on the tracks... and the police didn't seem to do anything about it, guess they were busy. Later on also the Red Luas line stopped running, there was SO much snow! So yeah, I walked a bit along the Luas tracks, only 2 stops, with a lot of other people... Some of them had to go MUCH further, basically a 1.5 hour walk with normal conditions. And while walking around in Dundrum I saw a Dublin SNOWPLOW!!! Yes honestly, there is at least 1 - probably only 1 ;-) - snowplow!!!
So after that at least the Luas kept running and because it got a bit warmer the streets weren't covered in ice during the day... But you imagine, as soon as the sun went down the slush and water turned to ice... Ice-skating with normal shoes on the Rialto Roundabout at midnight is fun :-).
At this point, I guess it was Monday last week, an effort was being made by staff to clear the college pathways... The methods implemented to get rid of the about 15cm - 20cm thick ice and snow were quite funny...
So... now all the snow has pretty much melted and the city is back to normal :-).
Only 7 more days until I am back in Switzerland :-)...
For a start... Ireland and Snow just does NOT match at all! The Irish have no clue what to do with snow and there's absolutely no way of dealing with it... with enough snow, everything would just break down completely.
So where to start with this long and painful, hopefully amusing story about snow??? I guess I'll just sort of highlight some of the funny stories that happened, because I honestly can't remember everything anymore...
The first snow fell, I think, on Sunday the 28th of November or maybe it was Saturday, who knows. It was cute at first, not a lot, but during the night it just kept snowing and so the snow stayed. The Irish were completely taken aback, I mean, it does NEVER snow here in late November, NEVER :-). And so why get rid of the snow if it anyway never snows and it'll be over soon and there won't be any more of it.. Yeah right. So the snow kept on falling and falling, there were thunderstorms (yes, really), maybe even the occasional blizzard... The weather had gone completely nuts and the Irish were still too much in shock to do anything about it...
But hmm... what should they have done about it? Apparently Ireland doesn't own any snow plows and people with houses don't have snow shovels and you get it... they just had no clue how to deal with the snow. Luckily I lived on the Luas line and got to town and back faily easy, the walking was just a bit of a dangerous task, as the snow became ice.
So on Tuesday finally Johann and Jan arrived :-) Due to the snow there were many delays at Dublin Airport and it was occasionally even closed I think. The poor guys arrived into a city full of slush and snow and ice and there was no stopping it... The snow kept falling, harder than ever. Bus service broke down at certain times, Siofra's school closed because teacher living in the country couldn't get into Dublin anymore and so on. Trinity's open day on Wednesday got cancelled as it was too dangerous... a threat to the health of the visitors. I tell you... snow and slush on "polished" cobblestones is bloody dangerous.
On Thursday College was closed to all but students, staff and residents... It remained closed until Monday morning!!!
At this point (still Thursday) I still wasn't able to observe a lot of effort with regard to getting rid of the snow... And still more was falling from the sky... The funny thing... All the Irish kept saying it's a once off thing, it'll not happen again, there's no need to get winter tires for the car, no need for the city to get snow plows,... Well, I guess we'll see about that next year.
On Thursday the situation got completely out of control... At first the green Luas line stopped running because some stupid kids has apparently built a snowman on the tracks... and the police didn't seem to do anything about it, guess they were busy. Later on also the Red Luas line stopped running, there was SO much snow! So yeah, I walked a bit along the Luas tracks, only 2 stops, with a lot of other people... Some of them had to go MUCH further, basically a 1.5 hour walk with normal conditions. And while walking around in Dundrum I saw a Dublin SNOWPLOW!!! Yes honestly, there is at least 1 - probably only 1 ;-) - snowplow!!!
So after that at least the Luas kept running and because it got a bit warmer the streets weren't covered in ice during the day... But you imagine, as soon as the sun went down the slush and water turned to ice... Ice-skating with normal shoes on the Rialto Roundabout at midnight is fun :-).
At this point, I guess it was Monday last week, an effort was being made by staff to clear the college pathways... The methods implemented to get rid of the about 15cm - 20cm thick ice and snow were quite funny...
So... now all the snow has pretty much melted and the city is back to normal :-).
Only 7 more days until I am back in Switzerland :-)...
Sonntag, 28. November 2010
Connemara - A Road Trip
Hello everyone :-) I am still alive and breathing, but just AWFULLY busy with programming my 3D game. Right now I have absolutely enough of rolling balls and square frogs and so I decided it is about high time I wrote about the absolutely awesome road trip we did a week ago on Saturday!
Two days before the trip we spontaneousely decided to go to Connemara. Grace, Jo, Cian and me, all computer science people :-). We left VERY early... at 7am Grace was picked up (lol, we had to find her first) and then we picked up Jo, who - to everyones utter astonishment - actually was at the Luas station :-). So the 4 of us headed west in Cian's car, some fell asleep ;-) and others enjoyed the sun coming out to greet us!
After about 2hours we had reached the suburbs of Galway and headed noth-west into Connemara. The road was windy and hilly and soonish some people were not feeling that great anymore (*lol*), so we made our first stop near a very scenic lake. There was a stone wall and we all - except for Grace - climbed over it, some more gracefully than others... Thanks for the gentlemen I made it to the other side unharmed ;-). We saw some sheep and Jo tried to catch one of them rather unsuccessfully... *grin*. It was really cold and so we did only take a few pictures (check out the b&w from Cian, they're awesome).
Here on of mine...
After that we continued along the twisties and came to this fjord near Leenane... Looks really nice: A Picture for you!
After a short break outside the car we were all happy to get back inside... damn, it was cold! We continued a bit inland I think towards a waterfall! When you look on the picture below, the street is towards the left side, at the back... So we set out to walk to the waterfall... It looked quite easy at first, but just have a closer look at the "path" it's not really a path and it was muddy in a lot of places or non-existant in others. Well, anyway, I luckily had two gentlemen with me and they were mostly amazingly helpful in getting me to jump from one stone to the other really close to the river :-). Grace gave up halfway through unfortunately :-(...
After the waterfalls we set out to a beach, no idea where it was or what it's called ;-). My informant has somehow vanished from facebook... *grin*. So here you see the 3 people in black, Cian, Jo and Grace... I was too bloody freezing and my "shoes" where not really suitable for sand...
After Kylemore it was already after 2pm and we were all starving... So in Letterfrack we went into a pub and ordered some lunch :-). I got a warm chicken and bacon salad with honey mustard dressing, was absolutely amazing... Don't really know if because i was starved by the time it came or because it really was great. And then we continued towards Clifden and the apparently famous sky road! When we arrived there the sun was out and it was the most amazing, stunning, breath-taking view ever! I could not stop taking pictures, until my camera battery died :-(.
The 3 exchange students on the sky road!
Two days before the trip we spontaneousely decided to go to Connemara. Grace, Jo, Cian and me, all computer science people :-). We left VERY early... at 7am Grace was picked up (lol, we had to find her first) and then we picked up Jo, who - to everyones utter astonishment - actually was at the Luas station :-). So the 4 of us headed west in Cian's car, some fell asleep ;-) and others enjoyed the sun coming out to greet us!
Here on of mine...
So here you can see Jo and me on TOP of the waterfall, perfectly safe to do that... Ehm, what did it say in the beginning... "Do not climb on the falls. To do so could result in fatality." ~ Bord Iascaigh Mhara
But I mean it's just too tempting :-). So with wet and muddy shoes and dirty pants we made it to the top of the waterfall and took some cool pictures! After that we made our way back somehow and lucky me had another set of "shoes" in the car :-). But that little mini-adventure was absolutely a highlight of the day!
Next we continued towards Letterfrack and somewhere on the way saw a sign to Kylemore Abbey... So we went and checked it out, but only from the outside, entre fees where exhorbitant even for students.
After that we drove to Galway and into the city center. After somehow having managed to find an expensive parking space we got out and walked around a bit :-). It was sometime after 5pm methinks... There was a biiig Christmas market with a lot of little stands and we had a look at it. Then went to the "main shopping road" with all the nice, but just inappropriately early hung up Christams decoration. It was quite nice! After some tiem we went back to the car and drove back to Dublin where we all had Tacos at my place :-).
So yes, that was an abolutely amazing and wonderful day!
For absolutely amazing pictures by Cian see:
Mittwoch, 17. November 2010
First Frost
So I have been extremely busy over the past 2 weeks and also quite sick, which didn't help with the busy part at all... but I'm definitely on the road of recovery, antibiotics seem to have helped or it was just time that did it :-).
It has gotten quite COLD here and the first frost has come upon us as well. It's nice, warm and really cosy inside the house :-).
I will start my internship in Galway on the 12th of January after the Unitech mid-term week. This will be an awesome opportunity and I'll stay there for 6 months at least. So I have to find somewhere to stay and move and you know, a lot of planning again and some people VERY unhappy with my decisions... Writing tons of emails to certain people and you all know how much I LOVE writing this formal suck up emails ;-). But I am getting really awesome at it and people seem to have realised that I am not fooling around and that I actually do know what I am doing...
Otherwise it's going good at uni, just wrote my second exam... Hehe, took about 20 minutes to do it and then I had to wait 10 more minutes to get out (can't leave in the first half hour of a 90 min exam)... Not that I did particularly well I guess, but I just knew some answers and with others I had absolutely no clue.. so guesswork was involved... that's the beauty of MC exams with no negative marking now, isn't it?
Also in less than 2 weeks my awesome friends from university are coming to visit for an entire WEEK, YES, it's absolutely great. I already rent a car for 3 days over the weekend and we'll be going on a Road Trip to Galway and Connemara and so on! It'll be awesome... just hope the weather will agree with that. Hehe and driving might be fun ;-)... no I have to say, I'm completely used to this "driving on the wrong side of the road" by now...
Ok, I actually have to do some work now... So I HOPE that I'll be able to write again earlier than this time...
Hope you're all well :-).
It has gotten quite COLD here and the first frost has come upon us as well. It's nice, warm and really cosy inside the house :-).
I will start my internship in Galway on the 12th of January after the Unitech mid-term week. This will be an awesome opportunity and I'll stay there for 6 months at least. So I have to find somewhere to stay and move and you know, a lot of planning again and some people VERY unhappy with my decisions... Writing tons of emails to certain people and you all know how much I LOVE writing this formal suck up emails ;-). But I am getting really awesome at it and people seem to have realised that I am not fooling around and that I actually do know what I am doing...
Otherwise it's going good at uni, just wrote my second exam... Hehe, took about 20 minutes to do it and then I had to wait 10 more minutes to get out (can't leave in the first half hour of a 90 min exam)... Not that I did particularly well I guess, but I just knew some answers and with others I had absolutely no clue.. so guesswork was involved... that's the beauty of MC exams with no negative marking now, isn't it?
Also in less than 2 weeks my awesome friends from university are coming to visit for an entire WEEK, YES, it's absolutely great. I already rent a car for 3 days over the weekend and we'll be going on a Road Trip to Galway and Connemara and so on! It'll be awesome... just hope the weather will agree with that. Hehe and driving might be fun ;-)... no I have to say, I'm completely used to this "driving on the wrong side of the road" by now...
Ok, I actually have to do some work now... So I HOPE that I'll be able to write again earlier than this time...
Hope you're all well :-).
Sonntag, 7. November 2010
Schwyzerdütsch
Ok, for all my non-Swiss-German-speaking friends sorry about this, but I got some complaints from my home country as not everyone speaks English there.
Hallo mini Liebe
Für alli vo euch wo leider nit hän chönne mitvefolge was bis jetzt alles so passiert isch do in Dublin es Chlises update.
Ich ha mich do am Afang, also vor über 6 Wuche, guet igläbt. Ich wohn ime Stadteil Rialto, dä isch an und für sich nit eso speziell und au nit grad bsunders schön, aber es isch noch bim Zentrum und ich had Luas, sone Art Tram, ganz noch bi mir. Ich wohn binere ganz liebe Familie, wobi eigentlich isches nur es Mami und e Tochter. S Huus isch us de 30er Johr, chli alt, abr sehr viel Charme und ich ha mi gli deheime gfühlt.
Bald nach däm ich acho bi hän mir am Trinity College, dört studier ich für das Semester, e sone Art Ifierigswuche gha. Es het relativ vieli Infoverastaltige geh, ich ha anderi Lüt kenneglernt und bi viel ufem Campus umegloffe. S Trinity College isch z'mitzt im Zentrum und het en riese grosse Campus. Weme dur dr "FronArch" also de Igangboge ine chunnt isches grad viel ruhiger und alles isch griener und schöner :-). Me het also so öbbe 7 minute vom einte ändi ans andere.
Jo und de e Wuche spöter het d Uni so wirklich agfange. Ich mach 4 verschiedeni Kürs, 2 in Informatik und 2 in Business. Ir erste Wuche isch alles neu gsi... am Trinity funktioniert halt alles nomol echli anders als ar ETH, abr ich ha relativ schnäll usegfunde wies lauft. Die erste Ire kenneglernt und scho die erste Kürs abgwählt (ha am Afang 6 gha).
Ir nexte Wuche bi ich im 7te Himmel gsi wägeme gwüsse Ir... Alles echli vrruckt, nach so kurzer Zyt en Fründ in Irland... Aber es isch super gsi, er isch super gsi und ich ha Irland ufsmol no besser gfunde. Na, 4 Wuche spöter isch das denn so zimli alles vrbi gsi... Zu unterschiedlich, beidi dickköpfig,... und ez sin mir gueti Kollege. Abr die 4 Wuche sin wirklich super gsi, ich ha viel erläbt, viel gseh und Wolke 7 isch doch glich toll.
Die Wuche isch chli schwieriger gsi. Ich bi sit am Mäntig zimli vrkeltet... wobi e Vrkeltig isch glaub chli untertriebe... Isch evtl au e Grippe gsi kei Ahnig. Bi uf jede Fall deheim bliebe, fuul umeghange, nit viel gmacht... Na, bim Wätter dusse isch das au nit iladend gsi.. Miserabels Wätter sit am Mäntig, Irland macht sich alli Ehr. Und d Arbet fürd Uni isch sich am uftüürme... Na, es het au paar tolli Sache geh die Wuche :-). Am Fritig Obe bini ins Kino mit mire "Gastfamilie" und de Film isch super gsi "The kids are alright" und gester Obe bini zunere andere Ustuschstudäntin Heim... mir sin vieli gsi, hän z'Nachtgässe und Kartespiel gmacht und es isch super gsi!
Suscht hani scho einigi Sache in Dublin gseh, abr es git no viel woni noni gseh ha... De hani scho 2 Usflüg gmacht, eine nach Glendalough und Kilkenny und der ander nach Killarney und ind Region Kerry. Isch beides super gsi... Ich plan spötistens de next Usflug wenn de Johann und Jan afangs dezember uf Bsuech chöme.
So und ez muessi mol los :-).
glg Sara
Hallo mini Liebe
Für alli vo euch wo leider nit hän chönne mitvefolge was bis jetzt alles so passiert isch do in Dublin es Chlises update.
Ich ha mich do am Afang, also vor über 6 Wuche, guet igläbt. Ich wohn ime Stadteil Rialto, dä isch an und für sich nit eso speziell und au nit grad bsunders schön, aber es isch noch bim Zentrum und ich had Luas, sone Art Tram, ganz noch bi mir. Ich wohn binere ganz liebe Familie, wobi eigentlich isches nur es Mami und e Tochter. S Huus isch us de 30er Johr, chli alt, abr sehr viel Charme und ich ha mi gli deheime gfühlt.
Bald nach däm ich acho bi hän mir am Trinity College, dört studier ich für das Semester, e sone Art Ifierigswuche gha. Es het relativ vieli Infoverastaltige geh, ich ha anderi Lüt kenneglernt und bi viel ufem Campus umegloffe. S Trinity College isch z'mitzt im Zentrum und het en riese grosse Campus. Weme dur dr "FronArch" also de Igangboge ine chunnt isches grad viel ruhiger und alles isch griener und schöner :-). Me het also so öbbe 7 minute vom einte ändi ans andere.
Jo und de e Wuche spöter het d Uni so wirklich agfange. Ich mach 4 verschiedeni Kürs, 2 in Informatik und 2 in Business. Ir erste Wuche isch alles neu gsi... am Trinity funktioniert halt alles nomol echli anders als ar ETH, abr ich ha relativ schnäll usegfunde wies lauft. Die erste Ire kenneglernt und scho die erste Kürs abgwählt (ha am Afang 6 gha).
Ir nexte Wuche bi ich im 7te Himmel gsi wägeme gwüsse Ir... Alles echli vrruckt, nach so kurzer Zyt en Fründ in Irland... Aber es isch super gsi, er isch super gsi und ich ha Irland ufsmol no besser gfunde. Na, 4 Wuche spöter isch das denn so zimli alles vrbi gsi... Zu unterschiedlich, beidi dickköpfig,... und ez sin mir gueti Kollege. Abr die 4 Wuche sin wirklich super gsi, ich ha viel erläbt, viel gseh und Wolke 7 isch doch glich toll.
Die Wuche isch chli schwieriger gsi. Ich bi sit am Mäntig zimli vrkeltet... wobi e Vrkeltig isch glaub chli untertriebe... Isch evtl au e Grippe gsi kei Ahnig. Bi uf jede Fall deheim bliebe, fuul umeghange, nit viel gmacht... Na, bim Wätter dusse isch das au nit iladend gsi.. Miserabels Wätter sit am Mäntig, Irland macht sich alli Ehr. Und d Arbet fürd Uni isch sich am uftüürme... Na, es het au paar tolli Sache geh die Wuche :-). Am Fritig Obe bini ins Kino mit mire "Gastfamilie" und de Film isch super gsi "The kids are alright" und gester Obe bini zunere andere Ustuschstudäntin Heim... mir sin vieli gsi, hän z'Nachtgässe und Kartespiel gmacht und es isch super gsi!
Suscht hani scho einigi Sache in Dublin gseh, abr es git no viel woni noni gseh ha... De hani scho 2 Usflüg gmacht, eine nach Glendalough und Kilkenny und der ander nach Killarney und ind Region Kerry. Isch beides super gsi... Ich plan spötistens de next Usflug wenn de Johann und Jan afangs dezember uf Bsuech chöme.
So und ez muessi mol los :-).
glg Sara
Freitag, 5. November 2010
First Exam... lol
Ok... I had my first exam... well can you really call it an exam?
Firstly it was a Multiple Choice exam... That didn't really calm me down, I mean, the MC-exams can be awfully difficult. Ok, it helps if you know that there is only 1 correct answer and NO negative marking... Already a lot more humane than ETH. So I prepared, read the book, read the slides and so on... Was quite a lot of material.
Then I sit at the exam, 45 questions and it's a joke... Like really unbelievable. Not saying I did well... I probably didn't do too good.
If you have questions like what do the letters in DMAIC stand for... YEAH, right... I can tell you that DMAIC is a method of continuous improvement and it is used as a cycle... so once you are through all the stages, you start again... First you figure out what you want to do, then you measure if this is needed, you evaluate if the desired result will be produced, you make the design even better and then you check it again...
BUT I don't know it the C stands fo Check or Control... it's like the same thing and COMPLETELY doesn't matter! So yeah... I find that a bit stupid really.
And you know... it continues like that. Definition after definition and you are supposed to pick the right thing... It's not about logic or understanding, simply about learning stupid definitions by heart.. and I didn't do that :(.
Well, at least there were some math questions in the exam and I got to use some of my brain cells and some of the stuff I actually understood... And I even managed to solve the stuff without the calculator we could have apparently brought with us, but it didn't say so anywhere...
BUT, I know that not all exams at TCD are like this... I assume this exam is the exception. I have seen exams by the other Business prof, the German Mr. Fellenz. He does MC questions as well, but they are REALLY difficult and you need to actually use your brain and have understood the concepts... Also I saw old exams of the Computer Science people and they are much much harder still.
Otherwise this week has been like the weather... sometimes crappy, sometimes awful, at times a little lighter, but usually just gloomy. Not a lot of fun having the flu and yeah, I'll leave the rest for now...
I'm in serious need of my portion of tv-series... I'll start with Grey's Anatomy, continue with Private Practice and finish with Vampires Diary... Maybe that'll make everything a bit brighter :-).
But don't worry, the flu is going away... so is my voice ;-) and the other issues, yeah, they'll get better over time. I still like it here, not the weather, but everything else and it's only like 4 more weeks until I get visitors, so yay :-).
Firstly it was a Multiple Choice exam... That didn't really calm me down, I mean, the MC-exams can be awfully difficult. Ok, it helps if you know that there is only 1 correct answer and NO negative marking... Already a lot more humane than ETH. So I prepared, read the book, read the slides and so on... Was quite a lot of material.
Then I sit at the exam, 45 questions and it's a joke... Like really unbelievable. Not saying I did well... I probably didn't do too good.
If you have questions like what do the letters in DMAIC stand for... YEAH, right... I can tell you that DMAIC is a method of continuous improvement and it is used as a cycle... so once you are through all the stages, you start again... First you figure out what you want to do, then you measure if this is needed, you evaluate if the desired result will be produced, you make the design even better and then you check it again...
BUT I don't know it the C stands fo Check or Control... it's like the same thing and COMPLETELY doesn't matter! So yeah... I find that a bit stupid really.
And you know... it continues like that. Definition after definition and you are supposed to pick the right thing... It's not about logic or understanding, simply about learning stupid definitions by heart.. and I didn't do that :(.
Well, at least there were some math questions in the exam and I got to use some of my brain cells and some of the stuff I actually understood... And I even managed to solve the stuff without the calculator we could have apparently brought with us, but it didn't say so anywhere...
BUT, I know that not all exams at TCD are like this... I assume this exam is the exception. I have seen exams by the other Business prof, the German Mr. Fellenz. He does MC questions as well, but they are REALLY difficult and you need to actually use your brain and have understood the concepts... Also I saw old exams of the Computer Science people and they are much much harder still.
Otherwise this week has been like the weather... sometimes crappy, sometimes awful, at times a little lighter, but usually just gloomy. Not a lot of fun having the flu and yeah, I'll leave the rest for now...
I'm in serious need of my portion of tv-series... I'll start with Grey's Anatomy, continue with Private Practice and finish with Vampires Diary... Maybe that'll make everything a bit brighter :-).
But don't worry, the flu is going away... so is my voice ;-) and the other issues, yeah, they'll get better over time. I still like it here, not the weather, but everything else and it's only like 4 more weeks until I get visitors, so yay :-).
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