Have been staying in Wonheim St Peter since last Thursday and started at iSyst last Friday, so been really busy hence no posts.
So I am living like a proper student in halls while working at iSyst for my Masters Thesis.
After getting good results at my exams, I should really keep thing up and work hard.
Anyway let's break this down:
Wonheim St-Peter
This is Sudent hall run by the Studentenwerk Erlangen-Nürnberg.The halls look quite eclectic on the outside and the grounds are quite nice.
I'm on the ground floor outlooking an inner courtyard. The 'apartment' seem typical student type.
I have one main room with a bed and table. A kitchenette with a sink, two electric cook rings and a fridge.
A shower room and the usual cupboards etc.
Took a couple of days of getting used to it.
I have wired Internet access through a central server limited to 300 Mb a day.
All in all it's nice but I may have trouble making friends here...but they have some club type things, will look into that.
Now some pictures:
Yes it's messy already and I don't even have a duvet or a pillow case yet (I do have bed sheets though!). That's just my sleeping bag; I get too hot here at night anyway but by morning the sleeping bag is on he floor and I'm freezing.
As you can also see I have a radio. After a few days here that was an essential purchase as I cannot listen to my favourite stations online due to the bandwidth limitation.
Nürnberg
Nürnberg is quite a nice city. Twinned with Glasgow, it has plenty of green spaces and plenty of touristic attractions although I have not been to any yet, just passing through the Altstadt on Monday. But definitely this Easter weekend.
The people seem at times very friendly and at times look at you funny as if you were very much out of place. I found this odd as Germany has the 3rd highest immigration population and there are plenty of 'foreigners' around.
But overall very nice folk. I even had one lady pretty much taking me by the hand and taking me to an address, even though all I could say was "I don't speak German".
iSyst
I am not exactly sure what iSyst is as a company. My first impressions are of a consulting company with some research background.
I am going to be mostly working with a Segway Clone called zzaag that they have built from kit, improving it, modifying to carry loads etc.
Of course I first started looking at things such as making it follow you round.
Today, however I had my first meeting with Prof Rauch and basically said to start with what I know I should be doing - looking at the zaag source code and seeing how it works.
The code is written in BASIC which I'm not familiar with so this may take a while.
iSyst is full of friendly people who make you feel welcome.
As you can also see I have a radio. After a few days here that was an essential purchase as I cannot listen to my favourite stations online due to the bandwidth limitation.
Nürnberg
Nürnberg is quite a nice city. Twinned with Glasgow, it has plenty of green spaces and plenty of touristic attractions although I have not been to any yet, just passing through the Altstadt on Monday. But definitely this Easter weekend.
The people seem at times very friendly and at times look at you funny as if you were very much out of place. I found this odd as Germany has the 3rd highest immigration population and there are plenty of 'foreigners' around.
But overall very nice folk. I even had one lady pretty much taking me by the hand and taking me to an address, even though all I could say was "I don't speak German".
iSyst
I am not exactly sure what iSyst is as a company. My first impressions are of a consulting company with some research background.
I am going to be mostly working with a Segway Clone called zzaag that they have built from kit, improving it, modifying to carry loads etc.
Of course I first started looking at things such as making it follow you round.
Today, however I had my first meeting with Prof Rauch and basically said to start with what I know I should be doing - looking at the zaag source code and seeing how it works.
The code is written in BASIC which I'm not familiar with so this may take a while.
iSyst is full of friendly people who make you feel welcome.
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