Solar World( Germany-Singapore)

solar challenge 2009

2009-11-28

10th Week(11.9-11.15)

This week is really a very very excited week for me!! because I went to Paris in the weekend. it's really a very very very remarkable city!!
so let's start this week.

On monday.
My Solar car teammates are all coming back. And I saw some of them, they are really nice guys``very funny...
But I am still keeping help the professor to make phone calls to those China companies and do some translation from Chinese to English or even German.
and there is a picture which I took at a supermarket. I saw the SSC on a guy's cloth. haha```it's really brought me back to my Ngee Ann campus life. So sweet and busy.


On Tuesday:
We went to interview our mechanical team leader. so that I could get some information fro my report. he is really a nice guy that give us a lot of information about this team.
so that  I could use those important stuffs for writing my bi-monthly report.
this is our mechanical team chief.
his name is Bönneken Christoph. 
After we leave the office, we found that there is a poster in the school about the team, they are hunting for new teammates.

.(this is what we saw in the lift)

On wednesday.
today is 11, 11( called single day) haha```but today I never went to celebrate this "festival". I did call those companies and I transfer the money to the travel agency. actually  today I do not have lots of things to do, I just do the normal report writing every day. looks boring and useless, but actually i did learn something from those calls, like those technical information, and how does a motor or motor controller works.

On Thursday.
I had my german class as usual, but I went to see my roommate's presentation after my german class. hehe``even I could not understand what he is talking about in details. because he is talking in German. the only thing I know is he is talking about his country.
this is the Europe electrical connector receptacle. and as u see, the RUB is the short form of the Ruhr- university.


this is my roommate, he is talking something about his country.
and the presentation is about 90min!!!! it's tooo long````
how I wish I also could have such a looong presentation```hahahah```


this is the russian notes``but it's only equals to 1 euro. he asked me just keep it instead of returning to him``hahaha
.

On Friday.
today we went to our project room, we saw the car is dismantled, I could not stop to say that it's really a automobile country.



it's my first time that sit in a car with such a "chair"`````

and in the night, I and jeeva went to Paris for traveling.


On Saturday& Sunday.
after the whole night's bus traveling. We reached Paris in the morning at 8 o'clock. it's really a nice city that I can not stop taking pictures.
During this trip, we found out the way all by ourselves.
we walked a lot at the first day, we walk across the whole city, with a damn excited brain.!!because it's really too beautiful!!! I can say that! it's the most beautiful city I have ever been!!
So now i gonna show you some pictures about that.


in the morning, we went a church, where we could see the whole landscape of PARIS!!!


This is really a nice square!!


beautiful night!!!


















Maybe after You see all of my pictures, you will feel the feeling of Paris. I really love that amazing city!!!

SInce those kind of traveling , I really open my eyes.
Travel around the world!!!
it's really a nice dream!!
I really feel very thankful for my school to give me this chance to come to Europe for Internship!!
It's will be the nicest moment in my life!
21 year old guy```get experience of the whole Europe. those knowledge is that I can not get from the text book.

thanks```

cheers``

2009-11-18

9th week(11.2-11.8)

This is the 9th week for my internship in Germany.
In this week, there are also no much things special, but the teammates of mine are coming back soon, some of them will reach germany in this week.

So in this week, my task still like the same, i have to keep calling those companies in China, and get those important information from them. At first I can not understand why i pay so much time to do so. but since I see what the people do for the report, I know that it is a very important task indeed.

On monday,
I wake up very early, and kept calling those companies , some of them are warm, some of them as hear the language they can not understand, they just directly off.
I really have no comment for that. The only thing I should keep, is passion!!
haha```
I keep passion to call back China, and kept speak politely.

On Tuesday,
it's a sunny day, I wake up early as usual.
after i finished my calls, I went to school with jeeva, and I saw this truck, which is used for collecting the rubbish from those rubbish bins.
it reminds me the life in Singapore, wake up in the morning, and walk to school, saw those people are busy in doing there own stuffs, all of them are busy.
finally, all the leaves fell down from the trees covered the whole walking path.
and those trees without leaves are all becoming very empty,and not as beautiful as before.
It's just like life.....

today, I went to school after I finished my calls, as I walked out of the university's building, i found that the sky was really damn fantastic. i can not stop myself from taking pics.

On wednesday,

I went to the school's report office, those are three of the report writers, they have a big office and about 6 computers to do this job. the guy on the left, he is stefan, who is the report manager.
as you can see from the computer screen, we care making phone calls through Skype....

Am I looked like a office guy?``haha`````It remind my life in SSC(student service center), so I got familiar to do those kind of jobs.

On Thursday,
since I called those companies till 4am+, I can not wake up very early today,
so I just went downstairs to have a simple lunch, half spring chicken. like the one in canteen 4.
and the price also quite similar.
haha




This is the time as i finished my German class, at 5pm, when it's 5pm, the sky is becoming very dark. like 7-8pm in Singapore.


On friday,

As I went back to the project room, I found that there are some people have fully dismantled the car, they are doing a project of that car.
 but it's not solar car.
The motor is not electrical motor either. but I still can get some information from them. it shows that how does germany become the kingdom of automobile .

Here moves to Saturday ,

today I went for a soccer match, and the ticket is free for me, because it's a gift from my friend dawei.
haha
the match is between bochum and another team(sorry i don't know how to spell the name)

he is the guy who treat me this match, and I buy him a beer.hahaha( by the way our tickets are free, he get it from his professor, but it worths 30 Euros)..

it's a not so big but nice stadium. called rewirpower!!haha


Sunday!!!
I went to Luxembourg with my roommates ,silivana and jeeva.
it's a nice and typical europe country, but it's not big, it's a country and a city. like Singapore.

this is my trip to Luxembourg.
those are some introduction about this country.

Luxembourg is a parliamentary representative democracy with a constitutional monarch; it is ruled by a Grand Duke. It is the world's only remaining sovereign Grand Duchy. The country has a highly developed economy, with the highest Gross Domestic Product per capita in the world as per IMF and WB. Its historic and strategic importance dates back to its founding as a Roman era fortress site and Frankish count's castle site in the Early Middle Ages. It was an important bastion along the Spanish road when Spain was the principal European power influencing the whole western hemisphere and beyond in the 16th–17th centuries

Luxembourg is a founding member of the European Union, NATO, OECD, the United Nations, Benelux, and the Western European Union, reflecting the political consensus in favour of economic, political, and military integration. The city of Luxembourg, the capital and largest city, is the seat of several institutions and agencies of the European Union.


Luxembourg lies on the cultural divide between Romance Europe and Germanic Europe, borrowing customs from each of the distinct traditions. Luxembourg is a trilingual country; German, French and Luxembourgish are official languages. Although a secular state, Luxembourg is predominantly Roman Catholic.