Ömer in Spain, Málaga

Ömer (26) is a system integrator working for KARA AG, an SAP Consulting Enterprise, in Germany. In Málaga, Spain he is working for 4 weeks at App Informática, a hardware retailer. 

His tasks are the support of costumers and troubleshooting of hardware. He's also setting up computers for customers. Furthermore he acquired new methods of determining the exact driver for components through its ID to troubleshoot driver problems. Ömer is very satisfied with his workplace, because working at App Informática was a lot of fun to him. The people there were very welcoming and helpful throughout his stay.

During his stay he visited some cultural attractions like the botanical garden of Málaga and the Picasso museum, which he enjoyed a lot. "The Picasso Museum is one of the most beautiful museums I've ever seen and it's designed totally different from all the other museums I know", he said.

He's very interested in coming back to Málaga in his vacations, because he likes to see more of the Costa del Sol and its culture.

Marina's experiences in Spain

 

 

Spontaneously Flo and Marina went to Gibraltar last Saturday and made there an awesome trip. They became aware that time was to short to see all of Gibraltar, so Marina contacted a Couchsurfer (www.couchsurfing.com) and received a response from a guy called Stan directly. Stan is a really nice guy, who not just let Flo and Marina sleep at his house, he also showed them whole Gibraltar on his own. They did an exciting but also exhausting climb to the rock for about one and a half hour.
 
After that the climb reward them with a fantastic panorama up to Africa. And also they met some monkeys during their way up.
At the end of that day they enjoyed a cold beer and best traditional Spanish Tapas they found until now.

 

Marina worked, as well as Daniel, at Randal Systems.
There she assorted different stuff and added data into a database.

Daniel at Randal Systems

Daniel is 20 years old and in Germany he works as a IT-Specialist at the DAAD
(Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst / "German Academic Change Service").

In his 4 weeks in Málaga he worked at the company Randal Systems. This company modifies and develops electronical components, as special in the field of electronic of tailwater.

His job at Randal Systems is to inventory the IT-Equipment, to test the electronical components and to write a report about how to improve them. He also formatted hard disks and designed a new catalogue for products.


Daniel told us, that working in a foreign country was a very good experience for him. He liked to communicate in a foreign language and getting in touch with a different culture. The thing which Daniel really love about Spain: Pitufos con jamón Serrano, the good weather, the cheap vegetables and the restaurant "El Tapy", where you get free Tapas with every drink that you take.


In his freetime Daniel enjoyed the beach, the bars, the restaurants and the funny cooking sessions with Jascha. Together with Hanna, Marina and a guy from Australia, who also lived in the Hostel, he went to the castle Alcazaba at night.

Florian at Novasoft

Florian is an 18 years old boy from Lindlar, Germany.  He works in a middle stage company which is called inch-media GmbH where he also does his training as an IT-System Specialist.


In Spain he worked at Novasoft - a company with more or less 800 employees. Novasoft also suffers under the crisis in Spain. Florian’s activities there were to create a system image and restore it via network.

He enjoyed Málaga with the hot sun and the peacefully inhibitions. One trip he'll never forget, is the trip to Gibraltar. He told us that the trip to Gibraltar was one of the best and one of the most spontaneous things he did in his time in Spain. He and Marina drove to Gibraltar with the bus at 2pm and when they arrived they realized that the time to enjoin Gibraltar is not enough. Marina asked a Couch-Surfer for a couch for the night. Florian told that it was really funny, because he never did anything like that. The guy who borrows them the “couch” was Stan, a 30 years old boy. He did a sightseeing tour with them to the top of the Mountain in Gibraltar, “it was a really hard trip to get up, believe me there’re so many stairs to walk up”.
After that trip they got a dinner in a Tapas Bar near the border of Gibraltar. “The best jamón I ever eat!” - told Florian.

Steven's Spanish way of life at Coac Málaga

Steven, a 22 year old guy from Cologne, took the chance of the Leonardo Da Vinci project to explore a new way of life.
In Spain most of the people start working at 9am and make siesta at 2pm. So Steven just had to work five hours the day what is very relaxing for people which are used to work not less than eight hours a day.
Moreover the weather in Málaga is almost every day sunny and warm that the whole group was able to go to the beach very often. In the evening Steven was interested in checking out the different clubs in Málaga. He made the experience that there are only very small clubs with some Spanish and chart music - not comparable to the clubs of Cologne which are much bigger and play more genres of music.

The company where Steven worked is called Coac Málaga. There he set up an online shopping cart system with the view to create a list of opportunities the system enables and wrote a manual how to install and configure the system customized to the customer wishes.
All in all it was a really great experience for him to live the Spanish way of life and gaining more knowledge in building web pages.

Impressions of Stephanie's and Jascha's Trip to Marbella

Jascha and Stephanie went to Marbella to see "the rich people". It 
took about 45 minutes with the bus to drive there. 
The bus drivers don't care about speed limits and drive as fast as 
they want to. Very nice when there are a lot of humps and the whole
bus feels like jumping over the street ;-)
First they went to the beach and walked down there just to enjoy the
moment but after that they did not really know what to do but then 
they met 3 german ladies who told them to drive with the ship to 
Puerto Banus.
When they sailed into the harbour the first thing they saw was a 
white Lamborghini. All over the harbour there were a lot of those 
high class cars and motor yacht.
Awesome day and a lot of nice impressions!

Stephanie and Jascha at I.E.S Campanillas

Our plane landed at 12:45pm on the 29.04. at Malaga Airport.
Nice start into 4 weeks of work and Malaga because it was raining.
The first days we had time to discover a lot of different beaches.
When Stephanie started to work at the Media Markt she has realised 
very quick that it was a simple seller-job and she had the chance to change to 
the IES Campanillas.
There Stephanie and Jascha had to install a virtual machine with 
Ubuntu and set up a proxy server. Their teacher was very motivated to showed 
them a lot of different things and they had a lot of long discussions with him 
about for example a problem with a printer and remote sessions.
It was an awesome time there and they felt very welcome!
Nearly the whole group went to the beach nearly every day just to 
enjoy the sun and the cold water of the sea.
Stephanie and Jascha went to the "Teatro Romano" and had a beautiful view 
over the whole city. There was a huge garden with nice flowers and a little
stream where the water was flowing through the whole castle.
Nearly 3 weeks of sunshine, hot weather and try to tan ;-)

Hanna and Martin at Caela

Hola :-)

Hanna (21), a Softwaredeveloper at the Talanx Service AG in Germany, and Martin (22), as well a Softwaredeveloper at the REWE Group in Germany, are working for 4 weeks at the company Caela S.L. during their stay in Málaga.


Caela S.L. provides consulting for business plans and for websites as major business area. Also they offer creating a WordPress based website and also offer hostings.

During their stay Hanna and Martin were working with HTML, CSS and PHP (in WordPress).
They embedded Google Maps into a website and were also adjusting the layout of several websites.
Hanna and Martin had also the tasks of embedding a booking form into a website, meetings with clients and adding several sidebars to a website, as well as adjusting them.

In his freetime Martin has been travelling around Málaga and the "Costa del Sol" and did some sightseeing there.

Hanna enjoyed lying on the beach, visiting Marbella and Torremolinos, shopping and sightseeing.

Maurice at Linux New Media

Hola,

Maurice (24) works in Germany (Cologne) as an IT-Specialist for systemintegration for the Host Europe GmbH.

He would like to tell us something about his workplace in Málaga.
For the last four weeks Maurice worked at “Linux New Media”, a small but heartfelt company.

 

At Linux New Media his tasks were to set up the latest version of Ubuntu Server(12.04), to set up an E-Mail Server in a Virtual Machine with Kolab, ClamAV,AMAVIS and Spamassassin. Further he has tested Hardware like the RaspberryPi, has learned Bash/Python scripting and many other interesting stuff.
The employees were very nice and accommodating. Also, the working atmosphere were very pleasant. The given tasks were instructive and where appropriate for an IT specialist.

Maurice likes of Málaga, especially the mentality of the spanish people, the museums, the food and of course the sun and the beach.

Dennis four weeks in Málaga

Hey,

I'm Dennis and I'm 21 years old. In Germany I'm working at Host Europe GmbH as an IT-Specialist for systemintegration.

Nadine and I have been at CEP Málaga for 1 1/2 weeks, a college for education.
Because we had some issues during our stay, we changed the company and worked for the last week at the IES Campanillas school.

On our free time we did a lot of things in Spain.
For example we went to Plaza Mayor, a big shopping center. In the near of this shopping center is the tourist town Torremolinos with nice beaches and many small businesses.
We also enjoyed the Spanish Clubs - but I'm honest: that's really not my music! I don't like them - but that's not so bad ;-)
Last but not least we were at Gibralfaro and Alcazaba of course ;-)

Nadine's experiences in Málaga

¡Bienvenidos! 

(Alcazaba)

Mi nombre es Nadine y tengo 21 años.
My name is Nadine and I'm 21 years old.

Fui en Málaga por 4 semanas para hacer la projecto Leonardo Da Vinci.
I have been in Málaga for 4 weeks with the project "Leonardo da Vinci".

A mis primeras semanas en Málaga he trabajado a CEP Málaga (es una Centro de Profesorado) con Dennis.
In my first weeks in Málaga I have been working at CEP Málaga, a college for education, together with Dennis.

Hemos tenido problemas diferentes en esta empresa y entonces hemos empezado con el trabajo en la escuela I.E.S Campanillas.
In that company we had some problems and we started working in school I.E.S Campanillas then.

A CEP Málaga Dennis y yo hemos tenido tareas diferentes, por ejemplo la conexión de Moodle 1.9.7 con la nueva versión de Moodle 2.2.2
y la conexión de Moodle 2.2.2 con Mahara.
At CEP Málaga Dennis and I had different tasks, for example the connection of Moodle 1.9.7 and Moodle 2.2.2 and the connection of Moodle 2.2.2 and Mahara.

A la escuela solo hemos trabajado por la última semana y Dennis y yo hemos hacido el Blog por nos grupo.
At the school we only have been for the last week, so we did the blog for our whole group.

He tenido una tiempo bueno en Málaga. La gente estan muy amable aqui y tienen algo hábitos desconocido. Por ejemplo la gente en Málaga hacen cola a la parada de autobús.

I had a very good time in Málaga. The people are very friendly and they have some unknown habits. The people in Spain are waiting in a queue in front of the bus stops and there is nobody queue-jumping. 

En mi tiempo libro fui en Torremolinos a la playa, en Plaza Mayor a el centro comercial y a el castillo Alcazaba.

In my freetime I have been to the beach in Torremolinos, at the shopping mall in Plaza Mayor and at the castle Alcazaba.

En Todo: Me gusta mucho la cultura y la comida de España - pero solo para vacaciones.
All in all: I love Spanish food and Spanish culture - but just for holiday

El mejor restaurante: El Tapy!