Really the time just flies. I have already been here over 1 month and soon it is time to head back home! Well, atleast to Stockholm because at this moment that is the last destination in my tickets and the flight to Oulu has been cancelled, airline has not provided me any new information for the flights, so it might just be that 3 weeks from now I will be sleeping in the stockholm airport. :D

Schlossgarten

But back to this week.

So we had just arrived to the Ludwigsburg accommodation at Saturday and on Sunday we found out that shit is really going down as the place is infested with bedbugs.. :s
We called to the person who is responsible for this place and our school to give a hand while sorting out this problem, since the owner said that there is no problem with bedbugs because there arent any, so he simply was lying about it.

Two of our fellow students had already been living here in Ludwigsburg hostel for couple of weeks before us and they had some bedbug bites on them so we had to do something about it.
On monday we saw the owner and he showed us a place where we can take our stuff to for killing the bedbugs. It was a bedbug oven (that turned out to be defective in the end). It reached a temperature of +48 celsius degrees and the interner says that bedbugs need to be exposed to +120 fahrenheit degrees (roughly about +50 celsius) to kill everything in your stuff.

Fortunately after putting their stuff to the oven girls could move to another room. Actually they moved to "Pilvilinna" to live in the 12th floor with another finnish girl.
After the drama with the bedbugs, we watched some movie with our american and german friends. Movie was not my cup of a tee, but we had good time watching it, and it was more of an social event I think xD

Our huge whitescreen

Whole week just went by in a heart beat. It had some rainy days and actually after monday we were seriously thinking about going back to Finland as soon as possible. The whole "internship" thing could not have gone more into wrong direction. Like this week all we did was this "Suomi project" in the school's internet-cafe. For me it gave me the feeling that we are now "out of sight, out of mind" for our german partner school.

And more amuses me the fact that our school is still thinking about sending more students here! I already feel so so so sorry about those students. Like if we think about it, two of us finnish have already done one internship abroad and that went like superb, but for 4 of us, this is their first and last international internship and this is just full of shit to be honest. I also feel so sorry for my mates, this is not the way to handle it.

Johanneskirche am Feuersee

When the sun finally came out behind the clouds and our minds were not so beaten down by our wrong-gone internship, it was already a friday. And like always I noticed that this weeks "discoveries" had not yet been done so I had to get on with it.

So when I got from school, I had some time before the train was leaving to Ludwigsburg, so I used it to see the nearby Feuerseepark and the Johanneskirche standing in the middle of it.

My kind of entrance!

When I arrived back to my place at Ludwigsburg, The Tower looked so beautiful piece of arcitechture that I just HAD to take picture of it.

And here it is, the mighty tower

Royal entrance

After spending a joyful time at my crib I decided to head out into the wild. To the wild Favoritepark.

WILDPARK ROAR

Long road ahead

a ram

pack of sheeps

a sheep

And thats the wildlife of Favoritepark! I am not kidding. I was expecting a little more thou. :D
After the long walk throught Favoritepark in the other end of the road is standing the Favoriteschloss.

After admiring the Favoritepark I saw the new destination faraway in the horizon. Actually we alreadt did visit the Ludwigsburg Schloss, but only from the inside. So I decided to see the outskirts of it by myself ;)

After spending quite a much time in the Ludwigsburg Schloss, I headed back home.

On Saturday I wanted to see more, I actually stumpled across this Altstadt in Marbach because my original plan was to go with s-bahn to Marbach (since it is across river Neckar) and see the views there and walk back to Favoritepark. But. I saw a sign that said "Altstadt" and I immidiately changed my plan and went for the Oldtown, which was a good choice.

After visiting the altstadt on Saturday, I found a rewe from there and ended up buying some sweets and grocery from there, went to my place to make some food and so on. In the evening there was "midnight shopping" event in Breuningerland (shopping mall) I checked it out quickly and came back to my place for some beers in our 12th floor, some of our group even went to a bar in Ludwigsburg, but I already had great plans for Sunday(really I just did not feel like going) so I stayed at home.

Because I had said that I have some plans for tomorrow, on Sunday morning I decided do make some plans for myself. Actually the only master plan was to go jogging and during that trip I could maybe see something new, and oh boy I sure did..

Monterepos

Feel the summer!

Gotta admit that I am quite proud of myself. I did lots of great stuff on weekend and used my time so well, saw some really really nice places :)

Just always wondering that is there still something that I havent seen?

Maybe, we will find out next week!!

My friend Joonas is coming from Düsseldorf to Stuttgart on thurstday and we are going to see some places is Stuttgart and also some of the nightlife, but more of that in the next post! bis dann!

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!