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Shepherd Michi did not have any lectures today because of snow in Swansea. Although neither roads, nor walkways or the campus are free from snow and there’s traffic chaos everywhere, it’s all business as usual at the ITT Dublin.

This morning I had to walk through piles of thawed snow and got wet feet. It took me ages to get to the college. Usually most of the drivers on Belgard Road can be described as reckless, but today everyone drove really slow and careful. Nobody has winter tires and most people just don’t know how to drive under these weather conditions. Thus, you can see spinning wheels everywhere and all the wannabes in their low-slung cars have a real hard time trying to appear cool. Schadenfreude olé.
The Irish are neither used to snowfall, nor prepared for it. According to some Irish friends, the last time that they had snow like this was about ten years ago. Many people’s eyes are sparkling with joy. Just like those of little children who see snow for the first time in there lives.

I currently spend my time checking out lectures and working on my timetable. It’s not too easy this semester as everything either clashes or is spread over the whole day. I don’t want to waste half a day with dead time in between lectures.
I’ll definitely take another lecture in Economics (this time macroeconomics) as well as another one in Management and Organisational Behaviour. Then maybe a class in Advanced Databases (lots of Oracle) and another one in Distributed and Mobile Computing. Especially the latter one sounds promising (HTTP, SSL, J2ME), but due to the fact that I did not do any Networking stuff so far in college I’ll probably have to catch up a bit on my own. Moreover, I’ll probably attend another business class. International Business sounds interesting, but it’s a fourth year business class, i.e. I could lack some of the prerequisites.
I still have to figure out a way to do all the subjects that I want to do and have to check back with my home university on some, but I’m sure that I’ll work it out.

I did not trust my eyes this morning: the Emerald Island is all white today. We’ve seen some snow over here during the last months, but it melted when it hit the ground and only in the surrounding hills were white.

Monday, I had to get up very early. My alarm clock woke me up at three o’clock. I wiped the sleep out of my tired eyes, took a shower, made tea, had a small breakfast and took the first Flybus to Dublin Airport. At quarter to four I was already on my way to work.

No, I did not accept a baggage handling job at RyanAir. I was invited to come to Germany for a week in order to work on a web project. My employer had booked Monday’s first AerLingus flight to Düsseldorf. During check-in I realized that I had to pay extra for my luggage as the low-cost ticket only allowed hand luggage. Well, under normal circumstances you would not need a large travelling suitcase for just a week, but I do not have another one over here.
After the check-in I was bored; all shops were closed. So I dozed a bit before I opened my laptop and started banging out code for a small side project. At half past six the plane took off. The flight was very comfortable compared to my flights with RyanAir and British Midlands. I fell asleep after some minutes after take-off and woke up during the approach for landing. AerLingus has probably the best price/performance ratio if you want to travel to or from Ireland.

After I had passed the passport inspection and picked up my suitcase at the baggage claim a man came to me and said „Good morning. German Customs, would you please follow me.“ Diesen Beitrag weiterlesen »