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3rd week in Belfast
(Ulster Museum, gain work experience and the Titanic Quarter)



In the morning we walked to St. George's Market, the last surviving Victorian covered market in Belfast. On the way we tried to find a geocache, unfortunately it was so well hidden that we couldn't find it. But I could take a funny picture of Kassandra, looking for the Geocache. 

Arrived at the market we had to wait about 10 minutes until we could go in, because of the Corona measures only a limited number of people were allowed in the shopping hall at the same time. We took a lot of time to visit all the different shopping stands so as not to miss anything. I tried all kinds of food (parmesan covered fries, olive spread, paella, exotic fruit drinks) and bought a can of spicy curry and two pairs of harem pants to take home. 




After St. George's Market, we walked on towards the Ulster Museum, which is located in the Botanic Garden. We decided because of the good weather and still had a lot of time to walk a little round through the park and then visit the Museum. We took a lot of pictures of the beautiful nature and some of us had an ice cream. 








The entrance to the museum was completely free and there were a lot of different interesting things to see. Among them a mummy, bones of already extinct creatures, things about Belfast's history and irradiated stones.









The work week after the nice weekend went by quickly because we had a lot of jobs to do. I was introduced to our in-house ticketing system so that I can now enter updates on customer orders and add new work into the system myself. I feel very comfortable in our company and everyone in my team likes me. Defective hardware has been repaired and also some costum devices have been assembled according to the clients wishes. Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to take pictures of my work, but I will try next week, so you will get a better insight what is going on here. 

Today is Saturday and we have reached the last day of my blog entry, I have survived the week well and I am proud that I have learned a lot and accomplished even more.

For today we have planned to go to the Belfast Titanic Quarter. For those who didn't know, this is where the famous Titanic ship was built and launched. The rest of the story I think everyone knows... You learned a lot about the people who were involved in the shipbuilding and how the ship was built in detail and other interesting information about the Titanic.

















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