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Not posted in a while: end of august(ish)
After being here almost a month, its coming to the time for the rest of the students to arrive, it's not felt that long I suppose, already 1/12 of the way there. On Wednesday Andrew and Sarah arrived, on the Thursday I received yet more stuff as Sam left on Friday morning. My small room now has 3 toasters, kettles 2 irons and boards(which won't get much use). From the boxes of things we were given I kept a oven, some tuba wear, a desk fan, some tins and some 2.1 speakers. Most of which I had been considering buying anyway.
Thursday I got a letter from the bank, with a 36euro bill in it, oops. I'd signed up for the gym and forgotten I didn't put anything in the account when I opened it. Down to 60Euros now, with 20 on my work food card. Will have to think about if I can survive a week on 40Euros.
Never managed to talk to my dad before or on his birthday, but I got an email from Jane about maybe talking on Sunday night. Starting to get a bit homesick, well at least I think I am, no feeling too well, always tired and not sleeping well; but I'm sure it'll settle down. Heather seems to be lasting alright though, she's been going out and I've not had to come home to "I miss you" all the time.
My first live project is almost complete, only a couple more features to go; been reading into CSS today, which is rather boring imo, but apparently its going to be a core part of my placement, so. Bernhard and Francois (the french guy who sits next to me) are both having a long weekend and are off today. I've also ran out of things to create for it on my own. So I brought in another 2 books from home and I sat indulged in one of those all day. I've managed to earn an additional 7 hours of overtime already, but I didn't get in till 10 today so I think that has been damaged.
As for food this week, I've had a range of things, sausage and mash with sauerkraut for the first time in years; pasta with a variety of healthy but nice tasting sauces, corbon bleu, then very well cooked toast with cheese or jam in the evenings (if I don't say so myself). Also had a pizza with all sorts of veg all over it, but it was pizza, something I'd not had in weeks and actually tasted nice, where a would usually brush it aside.
As I thought with Sarah and Andy's arrival, I got asked quite a few obvious questions and after drawing a map and explaining exactly where to go and what to take with them, I came home the next day to find they hadn't gone because they'd read somewhere you needed something from Siemens, sigh. Oh on that point apparently I'm not allowed to say Siemens: it's Fujitsu Siemens computers I work for, some European partnership heh.
Had a couple of invites to the October fest already. My dad and Jane are coming over in the mini, Sven has said I'd be welcome with his friends when they go and Shelley, an old school/college friend said she was coming over with some uni friends for it sometime. But as my phone doesn't work can't get in touch. Should be fun, although secretly I'm more looking forward to fashing, which is where almost all of Bavaria dresses up for the day and there's lots of partying and fun. Most of Bavaria it seems, except Augsburg. Will have to get a train to Munich on the day I think, now to find a funny-looking costume.