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Last Wednesday I was featured in the “prestigious” local newspaper Zwickauer Zeitung along with my IAESTE mates.

The university’s vicedean invited all of us that are working with the IAESTE programme in Zwickau to a formal meeting with our bosses and the international relations supervisor. In the meeting the vicedean did a presentation about the university and its present issues while taking coffee, and also asked each of us about how our summer was going and our work at university.

The IAESTE trainees with the top staff of the university

In the meeting

The vicedean talking about the Foucault pendulum in the university library

Doing politics

On Monday after doing an exam I headed downtown to Fnac to buy a new camera. I really needed a camera because I’ve been without one since before Christmas, and I want to document my summer in Germany and post pictures in this blog.

I was looking for a camera within a price range between 150 and 250 €. Small and compact, preferably a Nikon or a Canon. After looking at all the cameras they had on display I decided to buy a Nikon Coolpix S200.

Its basic features are:

- 7.1 Megapixels.

- 3X optical zoom.

- Electronic vibration reduction.

- In-camera Red Eye fix (supposedly I will never see a red eye in my pictures).

- Video recording with sound at 30 fps (640 x 480 pixels).

-Rechargeable Li-ion Battery (no batteries!) that will last approx. 230 shots.

-Light, small and with a big screen.

It cost me 199€, probably I could have gotten it cheaper somewhere but I didn’t want to lose time. I’m quite happy with my purchase, I hope it will last long and doesn’t give me any problems like I had with past cameras.

To start I am going to introduce myself so you all know who is writing this blog. Let’s start from the beginning. I was born the 15th of May 1983 in Alicante (Spain), I lived with my parents and my brother until I was 18 years old in Calpe, a very beautiful town in the eastern coast of Spain. Then I moved to Valencia to pursue a BSc+MSc in Telecommunications Engineering (basically the same as Electrical Engineering) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). I expect this to be my last year in Valencia, as if everything goes smooth, next year I will be enjoying the well-known Erasmus programme in Hamburg (Germany) at the Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH). Before that I will be working for two months this summer in Zwickau, a small city in eastern Germany, where I will be able to warm up my German language skills. There I will be an intern at the West Saxon University of Applied Sciences thanks to the IAESTE programme. Last summer I enjoyed another IAESTE internship in Łódź (Poland) developing software for Makolab, a leading IT company in Poland. There I spent the best summer in my life traveling and making friends with other engineers from all over the world.

Me in Alicante’s harbor

Besides traveling my hobbies include watching and practicing sports (specially basketball and soccer), watching TV series and movies, and reading books and manga comics. Moreover I have a passion for technology and everything related to the Internet. When I was younger I was fond of videogames but lately I prefer doing other stuff instead. I also enjoy learning languages, right now I am refreshing my, not so good, German skills and hoping to have an almost perfect English some time in the future.

I consider myself a smart, cheerful, shy and ambitious person. I am a good guy who somehow most of the time seems to have a smile in the face. Some friends think that it’s practically impossible to make me mad. I am also a perfectionist, thus making me a big procrastinator, but I’m working on that.

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