Goodbye and Celebration

The time had come to... say goodbye to my beloved Elodie - the french girl who worked with me now for almost half a year :( Yesterday, we went with some other Bosch trainees a last time to dinner in a nice italian place and afterwards to have a drink (had a nice beach beauty;-) I´m really glad that she´ll come back in two weeks already...!
But today was again celebration time: Two of my best friends here in Stuttgart are celebrating their birthday! As there is another friend which had birthday on sunday we went to celebrate today although it´s just a tuesday. They´ll make a big party in our flat next friday - but "unfortunately" I´m not here...
Why not? - That´s sort of good news as well. I´ll travel with my boss and a asian guy from purchase dept. on thursday to a meeting - which happens to be at Scintilla in Solothurn. And as my boss offered me to take off friday I can spend another weekend at home, which of course is really nice as well. But it´s still sort of a good thing, that I´ll be missing the guys here.

Btw: some people were discussing about reverse cultural shocks, when you live abroad and come back. Well, I´m not living in a culture that far apart from mine and I wasn´t that long abroad, but last time I went home (beginning of may after 3 monthes not being there) I noticed something in the train when we crossed the border. It was the language and the very strong stressing of CH and Ks in swiss german that hit me. I could somehow understand why some germans like to joke about swiss german.
But still, there´s a truth in a statement a german friend did (she remembered about two things you shouldn´t do with Swiss pepole): 1. Don´t try to explain democracy to a Swiss; 2. Don´t try to imitate Swiss German.

The weekend is over :(

My long weekend is almost over - yet I´m once again more tired than before. In the beginning it was very relaxing. On thursday and friday I was just hanging around at home and kept practicing my new hobby: playing guitar. But then the root of evil started: There was an AIESEC conference here in Stuttgart (Leonberg) and we trainees were there as party delegates just for the two parties on friday and saturday evening. The parties were really cool, thats why I went to bed early (in the morning). Came home on sat at 0530 and today at 0600. As my biological clock mode is set on "work" I already woke up at 12 o´ clock... :(

Today in the afternoon I met a friend from Switzerland. She went to Prague for the weekend and stopped by in Stuttgart on her way back. Was very nice to just relax, drink a coffe, chat a bit and enjoy the sun although it was a bit windy. After she took the train to CH-land I headed back home and slept for an hour. But as I´m still tired, I think for once I should go to bed early...

A day of meeting...

... drives you definitely crazy. It was even more bullshit than I expected. And I rose several times - but not because of the bingo (then I would have to be standing the whole day) but because of leaving the room to organise several things. Anyway I survived it and tomorrow will be a quiet day hopefully (if there´s nothing waiting in my inbox). And then, it´s already weeeeeeekend, yeah.

Sentence of the day: "You can screw everywhere, you can screw around a corner..." (of course the work with a screwdriver is meant;-)

Here I am - once again

Alright, another monday evening. Today was a lot of work again. Even more than last week ;-) Yes, I have a cool job. It´s interesting, diverse and with a lot of cool people. Too bad one of our best friends had her last day today and we´ll leave Germany in about one week :( But, good thing is - we convinced her to come back on 13th of June. Yes she´s French and we´re gonna watch the game on Schlossplatz as we´re one of those unlucky people who´re living in Stuttgart, who´re French and Swiss and who didn´t get Tix...
Anyway life´s great here. My parents visited me this weekend, next weekend will be long because I can take of friday and there´s AIESEC conference coming up on friday and saturday in Stuttgart. Soooo, we´re party-delegates and we gonna rock tha block as usual.
For those who haven´t heard: Yes originally I planned to finish my traineeship last monday. But as the job is great, world cup is coming up, and I have a lot of friends here, I extended my contract until end of august.
Tomorrow´s gonna be EBM - European Business Meeting, which I´ll join. Maybe I´m gonna play bullshit bingo. I´m sure I can win (because I prepared the presentation ;-))
Until the next post: Good night and good luck

Working like a dog

Today was pretty hard. Unfortunately I decided to go to work a bit earlier than usual. Still, compared to other people it was late:-) Anyway, I felt tired already back then. In the morning I was working on project matrix - a tool to track our projects. I tried to put an overview of the current situation into a presentation. As it´s a lot of data, it´s a difficult task.
After lunch I learned, that my boss is gonna be out of office for the next three days. So we had to finish the preparation for market research today. I was working on it during the whole afternoon. After 9 hours of work and finally finishing the presentation for this research I could leave work:)

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