First experiences and feelings in Köln.

Hello! My name is Francisco Peral (Curro) and I have 21 years.

This is the first entry that I write and in this one it'll tell you a bit my first impressions of stay in the city and to describe brief the activities I have done in those days.

To begin, I have to say that the city looks like to me a magic place, especially by the magnificent cathedral 'Dom', who beside being a brilliant tourist center, is a key element to orientate myself (due to its height can be seen from almost anywhere in the city), when I go around town and want to return to the hostel where I reside 'Pastpoint Cologne', which is to five minutes from the cathedral.

The hostel is great. It has a great kitchen, two courts (one of them with two comfortable hammocks) and a great room of rest.

My roommates, Mario Lozano, Tomás Galiana and Álvaro Bueno are brilliant and we help ourselves very much between ourselves.

In addition there are two very handsome and nice receptionists who speak well the Spanish and help us very much.

The place where I realize the practices is in a city near to Köln called Bergheim and is the council of that place. I perform my job in the IT department of the same this building.

The people I work with are very friendly and care about my comfort on the job and help me help me in the possible thing in the comprehension and understanding with them, which sometimes is a bit difficult, due to my Englishman's low level and his different accents when they speaks english language, which does not handle very well all.

In these days I barely had time to stop writing in the blog or start with the project because we have not stopped visiting museums and other places in the city, like a big park where we did barbecue with German companions.

In the next days I will write a new entry counting new activities and experiences.

Nothing more for this entry. Francisco Peral Segura (Curro).

The Metro in Köln

Hello, my name is Cara Ruiz, Francisco Ruben and this is my first comment on the blogg.

Here in Germany, everything is the minute, the metro and the train is arriving by the minute,

delaying time.

The situation of the subway stations

are located at key sites or else very close to them. The metro is very good to move without the car as it reaches anywhere you want.

We move as well in the subway, without compromising when you ride twice already know perfectly well their merger.

In this picture we see the central railway station, as its name says is the meeting place of all places.

I go to my work, I have to take the underground number 1 which is situated in Neumarkt stop and it takes 8 minutes to get to the University stop is where I work and getting back I hav

e to do the same operation, without any loss.

And here in this photo you can see my best friends, we are in the subway station waiting for the number 5 without them would be very different Köln

My first experience in Köln

Hello!
My name is Salvador Fernández-Caparrós and
I´m 19 years old.





We taked the flight of Air Berlin at 10:45 and we arrived at 13:50 in Köln, 3 hours in the plane with a sandwitch and a drink included with the flight.

In the airport, the teacher of the high school was waiting for us with a bus to going to our residences.

We are separated in two residences:

Pathpoint Cologne: In this residence there are 4 students in the same room, but they have bathroom in his room and kitchen utensils.

Kolpinghaus International: This is my residence, in this residence we are 6 students, we are 2 students for room but we have the bathroom and the kitchen out of our room.


The first day when we arrived,
we go with the teachers to a pub,
we drank bears and eat one
of the tipicaly food in Germany,
a bread with cheese and mustard
(It´s delicious!).




The next day we went to the school to know all our German partners and companies (I work in REWE), then they show to us the school, they have an amazing rooms of sounds!!!

After the presentation they invited to us to lunch in a buffet bar.





Then Antonio (My room patner) and me, went out with some German guys to walk for Köln and to a pub.

The next day we went to our companies, I went to REWE, they did for us a presentation and gave us two cards (I´ll explain the functions of the cards later).

The Friday 15 of April, we went to the Michael Schumacher Kart & Event-Center and we did a race of 30 minutes, we are thinking to go another time.

The Sunday 17 of April we went to the chocolat museum (I´ll explain it with more details the next time).

In this days we went to our companies to work and the tuesday 19 we went to a barbacue with the German guys for dinner in a park of Köln.

In the next days I´ll explain with more details about Germany, my company and my residence.

Another week in Cologne

Hi once again!

I am writing here again.

This week I worked from Monday to Thursday. Actually I am doing some testing in JQuery, which begins a little complicated, but it doesn't matter.

On Tuesday we went with the german people to a barbacue in a park. It is a nice place where there were a lot of people cooking, talking and playing. There, I met a girl from Vigo called Vanesa.

The people in Rewe are very friendly. At 12 o'clock, everybody go to have lunch at the business' buffet. The food is so good. There is a lot of variety of food, even for vegetarian people.

The other days I went with Salvador to see the city and take photos.

On Saturday, Salvador and I will go to see Dom and on Sunday we will go again to a barbacue.

Nothing else for the moment.

Auf wiedersehen!

Antonio Villalobos González

The arrival to Koln by Tomas

Hi my name is Tomas and this is my first post.
The first week finished with some events.

I visited the city of Koln, It is very large and with many green areas.

My resident is Pathpoint, It is near the train station. I was feared becouse I didn't know where I was stay, but really is a wonderfull place.

First I began to walk for the city, until that these days I have learned to catch the underground and the train.

My company is Bayer and I am with Pedro Aguera at company. This company is very hard with the security and I enter inside with a card. The staff of the company are friendly, although it is difficult understand them.

Also I visited the Kart of Michael schumacher and chocolat museum , two events very funny.
Until next post bye.

The first experiences

Hello my name is Borja and this is my first entry.


My room is pretty good, although I do not like pillow is fatter any piece of paper but hey, you make her neck.
My roommate is Rúben Cara and next to Alejandro Alba and Pedro Agüera make a joint purchase of food, utensils, kitchen and laundry products.

These days we've been here in Cologne, we have visited many sites and we are about to visit.
These days the vast majority have a foot pain is unbearable, we walk a lot much to see things like going to work.
Here you can go anywhere by train, metro, tram or bus.

On Friday afternoon we went to the Michael Schumacher Karting.
To go to the circuit for 3 km walk from the train station.

The race pretty happy with everyone, we are even thinking about going back.

The outcome of the race was as follows:
1 - Rúben Cara
2 - Borja González
3 - Juan Carlos Amaya

When we got to the race we shower and we went on holiday to a place that we knew and liked a lot.

The first week in Köln

Hello, this is my fist post in the blog.

The city is very beautiful, and the people is very friendly but a little serious, i`m working in the Bayer company that it is in the Leverkusen city and it`s very amazing and very biggest about 15 km2.

I must take a train to go to the company every days at 8 o´clock and i arrive to the company at half past 8, because here the public transportation is very well, you can go to anywhere in train or bus.

Our residence is in the center of the city, I´m living in the bedroom with Alejandro Alba, and the bedroom is very confortable, but we haven`t got a own kitchen and own bathroom, we have to share it with the partner of the 4th floor.

In the righ of the text you can look a picture since my bedroom with the Domm in the background.

Firsts days in Cologne

Hello, my name is Antonio Villalobos and this is my first blog entry.

The first impression is that the city is beautiful, very green and very clean.
People here are very friendly and help you if lost.

Today, I went to REWE, the company I will work for the next two months.
I'm on the first floor and go to the java programming.

In the office, there were two men, whose names I can't remember, and a girl, Ricki, a student who we were with yesterday and who showed us the city.

The next photo is one of the bridges on the Rhine, which is famous because couples get a lock with their names, tie it to the bridge and throw the key to the river.

Well, this is all for today, another day I will tell more. We need some rest, in three days, we have not stopped walking to see the city.

Cologne is waiting for us!!!

In a few days we'll be there.....