Sorry for not making my post on time, but this is because circumstances were different that I thought on saturday. But firstable, lets start from the start of last week.
The week was really basic for starters, on monday we went to school, nothing more, nothing less. On tuesday, same stuff, drawing cars and listening some german. "Observing" as they call it.

Tuesday we decided to have proper evening food and some cold drinks so we went to a place called, "Mauritius" that our classmates had recommended us. I found that the place was quite good, but it was quite expensive. We ordered Pizzas and couple of cold drinks, whole evening was like 15€ in total per person, but I think it was not too bad.(compared to out beloved homecountry)

Just one mojito before the pizza :)

On Wednesday we had a day off from school and after the breakfast I started to but some darker colour to my hair. When we all had our hair done we decided that it is the time for the weekly "adventure". We took a train to this small lake called "Max-Eyth See" that is connected to the river Neckar in Bad Cannstatt, we had read that the atmostphere there is really nice an relaxing, and it sure was.

Bridge over river Neckar

Love lockdown

So I keep it low, keep a secret code

Some wineyards waiting to rise and shine

 We found a great GYROS place near the Bad Cannstatt hbf!

After the gyros I felt bad (like always) so I had to take the stairs to clear my karma.

On Thursday we had a bustrip with our class to Ludwigsburg which would btw be our new home for march. Before the trip even started we had to hear a presentation from the buscompany (in german ofc). The trip was quite nice, organization could have been better, but in overall the trip was worthwhile. We went there with "luxury" class bus, and had a small snack during the trip to Ludwigsburg (althought the trip would have been faster with s-bahn...) but anyways the trip was a nice change to the everyday school-life.

In Ludwigsburg we went to see the Ludwigsburg castle and we had a tour in there (in german again), and the only thing that was bad was that we could not really understand anything about the tour :/
It was really beautiful place, would like to get a tour there in english.

Inside yard

Main entrance

After the day in Ludwigsburg, we still had to attend to a class in our school, which was really stupid as far as I can think. Because literally we just talked with our classmates there for the whole time.

In the evening I was really down for some reason, I felt like there is nothing for me in here. Tried to gather my shit together and go for a walk and find some place to eat while walking. I ended up walking all the way up to the Bad Cannstat and taking some nice photos with my oneplus and canon :)

This was the place that I actually went looking for from the Bad Cannstatt

When I arrived to my place with some food and couple of beers, I stumpled up on to couple of guys from the hostel that were going for a hip-hop & reggae club in the evening and asked me and girls if we want to join them since its their last evening. 

First I was so tired that I said that I would not like to go, but they insisted me to join them, and it was quite nice when we played table-football with the guys and just had a great time, girls were dancing and we were just hanging around just like guys do. Did not buy any drinks for my self that night, so it was a cheap one too, only 4 € in total. :)

UG place, was nice to see this side of the nightlife too..

On Saturday things went seriously weird. I just had come from the breakfast and laying on the bed, minding my own business and I hear a knock on the door, I say "ja, bitte" because I think it is the cleaninglady. But this time it was the receptionist with some crazy-ass news: "Did you know that you had to check-out 15 minutes ago?" And I went like: "Come again please?" and she said it again, "You should have checked-out 15 minutes ago, since it is 10:45 and our check-out time is 10:30". I was sitting on my bed, silent, thinking just that is this a joke? We were not supposed to leave our hostel until tomorrow morning, so I wanted to clear things out and I told her the situation. But. Apparently our partnerschool here in Stuttgart had made some mistakes and did not book our accommodation for the required time.

I had to start backing, in a hurry, I had not done a single thing because I was thinking to start wrapping my room on Saturday evening of course. Also we had to contact our teacher and all the other personel from our partnerschool to let them know what has happened. Worst case scenario would be that we would had to sleep on the streets for the night (okay, maybe that really is the real worstcase scenario). In 30 minutes I got my stuff wrapped to my samsonite and off I went to downstairs. After 1000 phonecalls and textmessages we were informed that we could go to our Ludwigsburg's accommodation one day early which WAS a relief.

When we got there, I realized that we are going to stay in this greeeeeat place for 1 month. In different floors. Atleast we got nice starter packet from IKEA that was part of the accommodation fees.

Cooking with chinese peeps!

Actually also the Saturday was better in that case so we could go to a store and buy some food etc stuff to handle the first days in Ludwigsburg. On Sundays the shops are closed so.
We were waiting for this monday really eagerly because our contact from the school had told us that he and the headmaster had planned some great ideas for us, what we could do instead of just sitting around doing nothing "observing". 

Well, I'm not going to open up the whole subject here, but let just say that the options where not those that we had in mind. I was really sad today and felt that how could this trip get any worse?

Found my german cup of coffee

Actually, it could. We heard that there are bedbugs in this dormitory/hostel, and we were told that they used to have them 2 years ago but the problem is now solved. "yeah right" I thought, unluckily seems like I was right.. But that is not all, the location of Ludwigsburg is just really bad. From every 30 minutes on daytime a train goes to centrum and in the evening every 1 hour. (compared to our earlier place the time was 10 minutes). Also, in this hostel your "hot shower" means something like +10 degrees warm water (which btw is really cold).

Just was wondering today that are we in some kind of reality show or candid camera? Or are we seriously this unlucky with our internship? I cant really think of positive things about this trip. I have decided not to expect anything better anymore, because you never know what is the next "oops" we find around the corner.

Just curious to find out what will happen this week... Bis später!

This week has been the first "dull" week here in Stuttgart. On Wednesday I was thinking that "I havent done anything special this week". I only went to work in the morning, came back in the evening, ate and took a shower, went to bed. End of story.

So this was my first week working here in Stuttgart, in the travelling agency at the airport. First day was ok, I was observing my co-worker and her work and I even got to use the reservation system later that day. But that was only the first day. She told me that tomorrow we will be going to different office, that handles the customers via phone and email, I thought that I will surely get more work there, because I can take english customers via email easily.

I was wrong, so wrong.

In the upstairs where we went on the next day, Tuesday, they only used Amadeus as a reservation system, that is not teached in our school and is rather hard to "guess" how to use it, as it works via codes.
First day in the new office, I was just sitting there like a bozo for 8 hours doing nothing, surfing in the internet and I felt myself so useless, but still, it wasnt the company's fault because they didnt know that I couldnt use that system.

The problem is coming from the school, they have not informed the students or the workplaces well enough. And it wasnt so fun when you have to come there everyday, just to do nothing.
The company itself was awesome, I mean the spirit in the office was just great, and I liked that first they spoke english to me because my german is not so great, but when they noticed I can understand, they spoke german.

I've realized that I love to see the sun go down

I'd always liked to work on airport for some weird reason, and now when I was working there, I really liked it. It was so thrustraiting to hear the "I'm sorry we dont have anything you can do", from my boss because the fault is not his or mine, but still we are the ones that have to deal with it. Since it was an holiday week here in Germany, only thing I could do in the workplace is to go there each day with "hooosaaah" feeling.

That being the theme of the week, there was something else also included in my week. For example on monday there was a nice Karneval show on the airport with alot of different dancers and music. :)
I also went to see our soon new apartment in Ludwigsbourg, and it's great!!! I mean, great as a better than a box on the street.. Its ghetto apartment with MAYBE mold and MAYBE bedbugs there. :D

Looks nice, eh?

When I realised the fact that we are moving into a slum, I had to take some power from the firefighter-elf-beer(it's crazy I know)

I try to make something new every week I'm here in Stuttgart, discover the place more. Today I realized that I haven't been doing anything special this week, than gone to a new grocerystore nearby. So off I went, to further away from the centrum and took the Funicular to Stuttgart's graveyard, it's quite interesting the place where the funicular is, because in Budapest its close to tourist attractions, but here its "far away" from centrum. And the fact is that it goes to a graveyard. :D

a moving wooden cabinet, hooray

Funicular upper station

The funicular was.. well. A german funicular. It is handmade in Esslingen in 1999 by Esslingen Engine Works. Journey on funicular takes about 3-4 minutes /oneway and the funicular leaves every 20 minutes from down to up and from up to down. There are two cars operational.

The cemetry itself was a different story, I found it somekind of interesting. But. In my opinion it was just OK. Here is some pictures from there, some cool graves you can find there, but gotta have the time to search them.

Gladiator style helmet on top of a old "crate", there was no date on it but I think it is really old

Familygrave

There are also some celebrities and well-known persons buried to the cemetry, but their graves werent anything special compared to pictures that are show above. After a nice 1-2 hour spent on the cemetary, I drove back down with the funicular and headed my stomach to a food place, its sunday and it usually means DÖNER-DAY. We had some great döner some time ago with my classmates in the centrum, so I decided to go for the same place again and yeah, it was great.

Big chunk of döner there :D

I meet this cat from time to time near the hostel I live, it likes me, I think so..

Tomorrow is monday and time for school again, hope it will be better now than it was before but. I would not count on it... Another great thing is that I have to film my school project here, it will be my final work so if I have nothing else to do so I can always film something up. I have beeen working on some timelapses recently.

I have learned something new this week about myself, I really like to watch the sun going down, I never thought that I would, but I do. I also like to be alone quite much, I like people and to be able to talk with someone, but I also need time for myself from time to times.

My work look

Thats it folks! Back again next week with something new!

Just FYI, for some weird reason some pictures are not showing right on google chrome, put if you click them open they are fine. Did not even see this problem because I always use firefox.

Anyways.

You know in life you either want to go all the time or stay at your roots all the time. I'm a weird one. I like to go and see, but from time to times I just like to be alone and take it easy. 

This week I have been trying to go more and stay at my place less. 

Time flies here, can't believe already 2 weeks have passed and tomorrow I will go working in the travelling agency.

Start of the week was really laid back, by that I mean that I did not do anything interesting. On Wednesday I took my camera and went hiking to Birkenkopf. Yeah. Hiking. :D

The way there was a tough one because I had to climb all this random trail all the way up from the valley to the hill. Like 200 meters upwards. Exhausting. And when I thought that I reached my destination, there was some more uphill in front of me.

Standing on the highest point of Stuttgart!

 

So Birkenkopf is a place where are the ruins of Stuttgart's city centrum has been taken when most of it was bombed down during the Second World War. Birkenkopf is 511 meters above the sea level and on a clear day some people say that you can see the "Swabian alps" from there.

Known also as "Rubble hill" or "Monte Scherbelino", the hill is hiding 1,5 million cubic meters of rubble inside of it from Stuttgart's ruins. That increased the height of the hill for over 40 meters. One of the stone shards has a plate attached to it that says; This mountain piled up after World War II from the rubble of the city stands as a memorial to the victims and a warning to the living. (translated from german).

Some of the rubble has been left on top of the mountain for people to actually see it

Isn't this the best tree you have ever seen?

People also have some religious events on Sundays at Birkenkopf

Overall Birkenkopf gets 4 points out of 5 for me. But that is just because I like the WW history and the sunset was really awesome to watch from there. The views to the city were only OK. It is little bit too far away from the centrum to be a good spot to take pictures over the city.

Hey mommy, Its me!

Some geographical stuff about the place, picture is little shaky tho

Views to the city

So actually I spent my whole Wednesday after school in Birkenkopf and went home with big bowl of salad from lidl. x)

Birkenkopf was so high and on the shady side of Stuttgart, so I think thats why there was still some snow when I went there.

Because next day I went to Bad Cannstatt for the Aussichtsturm Burgholzhof and it was like a start of a summer there. Only downside was that I could not find so much information about the tower and did not know if it would be open or not. 

When I got there, it turned out that the tower will be open next time at May, so could not go in there. Also this time my own timing was not so good as with the Birkenkopf as the sun was already down when I arrived to the tower.

Some shitty panorama

Wild killerdog approaching

Winefields both sides :)

THE tower

In overall the place was 2 out of 5, but I think it was because of the tower being closed, sun had already gone down and nothing was particularly special there. And also, it was quite hard to get there. I still give some credit for the place, I think that in the right time of the year and day, it would be atleast 4/5.

On Thursday I was still eager to do something with my freetime after school, so after few hours of resting after school me and Taru went to Killesberg aussichtsturm, actually Taru had just been there a day earlier but she said she wanted to see it again. And I did not wonder why, the Killesberg park is really nice and the tower stands in the middle of the Killesberg park. You cant really miss it. :D

Killesberg aussichtsturm

back to black

Darude und Jusi

Doing my thing

One step away

We spent quite a much time in the tower, it has nice views around the city and the location is quite easy to get into. The killesberg park is also cool place, it was getting colder as the sun went down from the sky so we did not spend so much time in the actual park but below are some pictures from there. :)

Oh Hi, did not see you there :> 

Donkeys<3

They came to see if we have any food

So that was my week number two in a nutshell. Yesterday we went to my classmate Kris's place and had a nice evening there, did not really took any pictures in there but some of the people were playing this airplane boardgame that I used to play when I was like 10 years old or something so I had do take picture of that!!

We left there quite "early" but already so late that we had to order a taxi. Quite interesting for me because I drive taxi in Finland too, so it was funny to see german taxi driver and first I thought that the taxis are not so expensive than in finland, but as I was calculating today the trip from Kris's place to ours and the price that we payed... Its almost the same than in Finland so not a cheap one.

German taxi is also slightly different from the instrument panels than in Finland :)

Thanks again and we see you again next week :)

Life is full of choices and routes, you are the one who decides where to go. Only you can make your trip worthwhile, don't wait for miracles or you will get lost on your journey to awesome experiences!