Thekla's Diary in Galway May 2006

Hello and Welcome

This is the Webblog from Thekla.

It’s about my stay in Galway (Ireland) from 7th until 27th May 2006.

Please navigate with the “Archives” – on lower right side of this page to read my diary about my first and second weeks.

I hope you will enjoy it ...

11th May 2006

For the morning lessons we have two diffrent teachers.
Kira just started with me at this school and she makes a very good job. She was before in diffrent countries and we have a lot of good conversations with her.
With Stefen we have the two lessons after a break, with coffee and scones. He is very polite und he tells us a lot about Ireland, the people here and .... from Japan. ;-)

9th May 2006

Galway, the long walk







Out of the window in school (GCI)

Monday May 8th 2006

my host family's house

Homework Monday May 8th 2006

Presentation of my job

Stephen,

Thanks for your lessons yesterday and asking for a presentation of my current job. Please find here some information about my daily business for example searching for new customers, teaching some lessons in front of students for their bachelors degree or for further education. Sometimes this contains a tool, a technology, or a program language. Most of the teaching time is centred a round the user interface, which colour or fonts to take, how to bring the right information together and to show them to the user. Nevertheless, most of my time I spend with projects. Some are for research others for customers, sometimes with partners in Switzerland or the European Union. However, what I like most in my job is to learn some new things every day, with the question from a student or by a problem in a project. Sometimes we have some trainees from Switzerland or all over the world. I also make some events for girls to show them what engineering looks like, so that more women will choose a technical education.

Looking forward to reading your reaction to my homework. HTH.

Best regards,
Swissy

Sunday May 7th 2006

I am not sure where to start; it was a long day with many impressions.

We both had a bad night with not that much of sleep. I am not sure, where we both that much nervous or what? When we went up, I was very tired and sad. Yesterday I refuse to believe, that I will leave the next day to Ireland and then this morning I was sure, today I would leave Switzerland. It was like a switch of the light, on or off but nothing between.

After the breakfast, we walked to the train station and took the train to Zurich Airport. It was a long queue before the check in and we needed a long time for that and just a short time to say goodbye. However, we cannot do it backward. We made some pictures, a last big hug, some tears and then I went through the passport control. Behind the pane, we waved goodbye and then we went different ways. I went to the gate and you to the tourist terrace to see my plane to leave.

At 10 o’clock, our plane left Zurich to Dublin. Over the clouds was the sun and we had some turbulence above Europe. It was a great pity, that we did not see a lot of the countryside. Just in Ireland, we saw the ground.

just a test with a picture

The ISS over the center of Switzerland ...

What do you think, when you see this picture?