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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

2011-03-15

From my window

Just a quick post, not to turn this blog into a Tumblr, but just to show you the view from my window, to compliment yesterday's offering.
For tomorrow, I have planned to take some pictures of the campus on my way to work, and I think I'm going to go to the center of the city to grab something to eat. So there may be more photographs here soon...

And there's another small lake further on the left !

2011-03-14

A new adventure : Stuttgart !

So, that's it, I'm now in Stuttgart for a 3-months internship in the University of Stuttgart. And, I must say as I'm typing from my very cool apartment, so far so good.

The trip (by train) was really cool, got a bit of time to kill in Cologne between my two trains, and I was awed by the spectacle of the that huge cathedral right outside the station.

Honetly, it's like, huge.

And stepping outside confirmed what I thought : that building is really impressive. And against the grey sky, it looked quite intimidating...

You can almost hear a deep choir singing foreboding melodies, right ?

The rest of the trip was peaceful, and before I knew it, I was on the campus. There, I met Florian Hindenlang, the guy who I'm going to work with during those next three months. The rest of the day consisted of a quick tour of the lab, with "nice to meet you"s sprinkled here and there. Then some work, and finally a German supper to close the day.

And here I am, typing on my laptop, in a room much nicer than I thought I would end up in, with a über fast internet connection ! Life can be good, sometimes :D

So, there you go, a little picspam of my apartment. I didn't take many pictures, but don't worry, you'll get a glimpse of the campus and the rest over the course of the next few weeks.

That's the kitchen, with a fridge and everything. And my half-unpacked stuff.

The bedroom. Did I mention it's huge ? And the desk is really big too. Reaaaaal nice.

Beds !

And lots of storage space. Won't need it, but it's still pretty cool.

I can haz shower !

So there, a little tour of my first day in Germany. It's all good, and there are already talks of something I really find interesting : a coding marathon, where we would take a full week in a hotel and simply dive and code something from scratch. The sprint coding amateur in me rejoices!

Till next time...