My first week in Rotterdam // Endrik
25.04
This was the day when I started my journey to Rotterdam. I came to Tallinn alone because others had already arrived 2 days earlier. Before Tallinn --> Copenhagen plane I had about 1.5h free time. Most of that time I spent reading a book called "Must vöö müügis", which in English would be "Black belt in sales". I got really hungry so i took a Subway sandwich, after that i went on to the plane. On the plane I sat next to the emergency door, so i had more room than other passengers on the plane, which was pretty nice. After arriving at Copenhagen Terminal, I immediately went to the toilet. After I had finished my business, I went to a kiosk and bought myself a sandwich, greek yoghurt and a a bar of chocolate, ate them all near the gate while waiting for plane. On flight I was reading my book once again. After arriving in Amsterdam, I went to get my baggage, after collecting the loot I went to buy a ticket for train, bought the intercity one. Train was late about 20 mins, but atleast it arrived. I arrived at Rotterdam about 21.30. Henri and Brenet came to station also, they had bikes already. Well then we went to our new home, I got myself the best room with double bed. Since it was quite late when I arrived, I went to sleep to get my 8 hours of sleep before work.
26.04
My first day at work. I went there at 9.15. Thats the day when I first met my mentor Michiel, we shaked hands and had a little chat, without further due I got introduced to my team. 3 guys, all doing back-end, so my role is to do front-end, which I also wanted in the first place. Got introduced to the project what we will be doing and also setted up my work environment. I got myself a monitor also. We are using Laravel framework in our project, for me that's totally new thing, which is quite hard at first, but I like to learn new things so why not. So the whole day I watched tutorials on Laravel. After work we went out with boys and 2 teachers. We went out to eat to a place called Pickles Burgers & Wine. After that I bought myself a bike for 70 euros and thats how the day ended.
27.04
I woke up at 9.00 because today is Kings Day and it's a national holiday here, where people dress in all orange, celebrate, sing etc. First thing we did in the morning, we went to our local grocery store to buy some food, also this is the day when we first made our collaborated meal, we cooked our own chicken and rice and added some sauce. The rice was very wetty but chicken was nice. After the meal we went to central city to celebrate Kings Day with the dutch. We saw alot of orange, people wearing orange or orange decorations etc. At the city there was alot of people, there were street vendors, markets, street musicians, acrobatic artists and so on. We also tried broodje frikandel, tasted very good. We also checked some parks and shops, cruised with bikes.
28.04
We went to cinema IMAX to watch The Avengers Infinity War, for snacks we took nachos with 2 different sauces. After cinema we went to the city, were just looking around and then went to grocery shop to buy all the ingredients that we need for summer shredding diet. Hanged at home and then in the evening we went to KFC. I took myself tilted tower burger with 5 chicken wings, tasted pretty good, Henri also gave me like 4 chicken tenders. We ended the day by watching a movie called New Kids Turbo, which plot is about five friends from Maaskantje who are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore. It's a pretty solid movie. So thats basically it for today.
29.04
We started our search for gym. We found one, which is pretty close to our apartment, it's called Fit For Free, which actually isnt fit for free, it costed us 37 euros for 1 month (including new client fee). It's relatively cheap and we were very happy with the outcome, the gym is fantastic also, fantastic machines and nice vibes. So we did our first training and went back home. We stayed the rest of the day at home because the weather was very rainy and quite windy.
30.04
Morning started at 7.00. Ate my breakfast and went to work with bike. The weather was very bad, it rained hard as heck, when i arrived at work i was soaking wet, my clothes got dried by 12 at lunch. At work the first part of the day I was learning Laravel, after lunch I started working on the project. My job was to change the circles on the front page with bubbles. So i opened up inkscape, made some bubbles. After job I went back home with bike, it was still raining so we decided to stay rest of the day at home.
01.05
Today I was late to work for 5 minutes because I accidently took a longer route to work. Explained that to my mentor also, he was all good with it. First thing at work I started designing bubbles at inkscape, because the ones that I made yesterday weren't quite good yet, they were just for prototype basically, I saved the bubbles as png. Then i opened the bubbles in Photoshop and removed space from the inside of circle, making it truly full png. I made a total of 4 bubbles, 1 empty, and other 3 with highlight bars on different heights. After that we connected my workspace with git, after that I uploaded the images to resources/assets/img folder, made my first commit and tried to put the images on front page, but since we are using Laravel, Webpack etc, the img src="" works a little bit different. I tried basically every method i found on google, but nothing seemed to work, well leaving that for tomorrow. After work we went to gym with Brenet, after gym we went grocery shopping, made our dinner and went to sleep
End of week 1
This was the day when I started my journey to Rotterdam. I came to Tallinn alone because others had already arrived 2 days earlier. Before Tallinn --> Copenhagen plane I had about 1.5h free time. Most of that time I spent reading a book called "Must vöö müügis", which in English would be "Black belt in sales". I got really hungry so i took a Subway sandwich, after that i went on to the plane. On the plane I sat next to the emergency door, so i had more room than other passengers on the plane, which was pretty nice. After arriving at Copenhagen Terminal, I immediately went to the toilet. After I had finished my business, I went to a kiosk and bought myself a sandwich, greek yoghurt and a a bar of chocolate, ate them all near the gate while waiting for plane. On flight I was reading my book once again. After arriving in Amsterdam, I went to get my baggage, after collecting the loot I went to buy a ticket for train, bought the intercity one. Train was late about 20 mins, but atleast it arrived. I arrived at Rotterdam about 21.30. Henri and Brenet came to station also, they had bikes already. Well then we went to our new home, I got myself the best room with double bed. Since it was quite late when I arrived, I went to sleep to get my 8 hours of sleep before work.
26.04
My first day at work. I went there at 9.15. Thats the day when I first met my mentor Michiel, we shaked hands and had a little chat, without further due I got introduced to my team. 3 guys, all doing back-end, so my role is to do front-end, which I also wanted in the first place. Got introduced to the project what we will be doing and also setted up my work environment. I got myself a monitor also. We are using Laravel framework in our project, for me that's totally new thing, which is quite hard at first, but I like to learn new things so why not. So the whole day I watched tutorials on Laravel. After work we went out with boys and 2 teachers. We went out to eat to a place called Pickles Burgers & Wine. After that I bought myself a bike for 70 euros and thats how the day ended.
27.04
I woke up at 9.00 because today is Kings Day and it's a national holiday here, where people dress in all orange, celebrate, sing etc. First thing we did in the morning, we went to our local grocery store to buy some food, also this is the day when we first made our collaborated meal, we cooked our own chicken and rice and added some sauce. The rice was very wetty but chicken was nice. After the meal we went to central city to celebrate Kings Day with the dutch. We saw alot of orange, people wearing orange or orange decorations etc. At the city there was alot of people, there were street vendors, markets, street musicians, acrobatic artists and so on. We also tried broodje frikandel, tasted very good. We also checked some parks and shops, cruised with bikes.
28.04
We went to cinema IMAX to watch The Avengers Infinity War, for snacks we took nachos with 2 different sauces. After cinema we went to the city, were just looking around and then went to grocery shop to buy all the ingredients that we need for summer shredding diet. Hanged at home and then in the evening we went to KFC. I took myself tilted tower burger with 5 chicken wings, tasted pretty good, Henri also gave me like 4 chicken tenders. We ended the day by watching a movie called New Kids Turbo, which plot is about five friends from Maaskantje who are getting fired because of the economic crisis. They decide that they won't pay for anything anymore. It's a pretty solid movie. So thats basically it for today.
29.04
We started our search for gym. We found one, which is pretty close to our apartment, it's called Fit For Free, which actually isnt fit for free, it costed us 37 euros for 1 month (including new client fee). It's relatively cheap and we were very happy with the outcome, the gym is fantastic also, fantastic machines and nice vibes. So we did our first training and went back home. We stayed the rest of the day at home because the weather was very rainy and quite windy.
30.04
Morning started at 7.00. Ate my breakfast and went to work with bike. The weather was very bad, it rained hard as heck, when i arrived at work i was soaking wet, my clothes got dried by 12 at lunch. At work the first part of the day I was learning Laravel, after lunch I started working on the project. My job was to change the circles on the front page with bubbles. So i opened up inkscape, made some bubbles. After job I went back home with bike, it was still raining so we decided to stay rest of the day at home.
01.05
Today I was late to work for 5 minutes because I accidently took a longer route to work. Explained that to my mentor also, he was all good with it. First thing at work I started designing bubbles at inkscape, because the ones that I made yesterday weren't quite good yet, they were just for prototype basically, I saved the bubbles as png. Then i opened the bubbles in Photoshop and removed space from the inside of circle, making it truly full png. I made a total of 4 bubbles, 1 empty, and other 3 with highlight bars on different heights. After that we connected my workspace with git, after that I uploaded the images to resources/assets/img folder, made my first commit and tried to put the images on front page, but since we are using Laravel, Webpack etc, the img src="" works a little bit different. I tried basically every method i found on google, but nothing seemed to work, well leaving that for tomorrow. After work we went to gym with Brenet, after gym we went grocery shopping, made our dinner and went to sleep
End of week 1
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