Getting started & Rovaniemi-Sunset

Hey :)

How fast can the time run? The first two weeks are over already now. They were essentially marked with lots of paperwork, organizing appointments, welcoming parties, buying and shopping basic things to live, and lots of other things :)

The coldness is still the leading key to arrange your everyday life. It is very interesting how humanity can be dependent of the influences of weather conditions. 

It is unthinkable to get out with any gloves, hats, scarves and for sure long underwear and warm shoes.

On Friday, there was the first "get-together-bonfire-evening-event" :) The Idea was to sit around a bonfire, eat some "Makkara" and have some nice talks to get to know each other :)

finnish "Makkara" - not competeable against german saucages :D

It was a very nice atmosphere, darkness, cold, snow, and a huge BBQ :)

Of course there should not be any funny group task missing...

The bonfire place is in the forest nearly located to "Kuntotie", the place where all the Exchange-Students are accomodated. It implies also the possibility to go up to a tower and have an amazing view about the nightlife of Rovaniemi.

I finally started my practical training on last monday, at 8 am...

trying out sebi's bike, cause mine was broken this day

German punctuality at its best :)!

I got my accesscard in the morning, and my supervisor let me wait around almost three hours in the laboratory...
So I decided to prepare the working area and tidy up the place to enable a successfull start within my training :)

It is a FPGA-Chip, in a combination with a PLC(Programmle Logic Controller = SPS = Speicherprogrammierbare Steuerung), which unfortunately was running with a Windows 98 System...and after a view tryouts not really working in combination with the PLC.

But later more on to my practical Training.
The first two weeks were very interesting and excititing for me.
Of course we continued with our regular cooking meetings, starting in my appartment...

So stay tuned for the next update comin in a few days about the international regularly eatings with my friends, also a small report about my first works in the laboratory and the finnish directness :)