Day 0 (Sunday)
After a while, I
finally found the Florenc bus station. Some of my classmates were already there
so I joined them. We didn’t have to wait for long, the coach arrived shortly.
We got on the coach and finally set off, headed to Berlin. It was a nice
journey, we even played the Counter Strike for a while. After that, we watched
a hockey match between our national team and Denmark. Soon we arrived to
Berlin, where we found the train that was supposed to get us to the centre of
Berlin. Few stations later, we exchanged the train for the underground. Then we arrived at the hostel, where we
finally had to check in. Nice dinner followed after so later on we could go to
sleep.
Day 1 (Monday)
As soon as we
woke up - it was like 7 AM - we headed for breakfast. After we were done with
eating, we got back to our favourite activity - Counter Strike. Hours flew by
and we got on sightseeing bus. We have seen many famous Berlin sights like
Berlin wall or Brandenburg gate. After few hours, we had a little lunch break,
so we headed to KFC. Two hours later, we got back to our hostel. Back to our
favourite activities - Counter Strike and billiard. Dinner was next and after
that, we got back to our room to get ready for sleep and next day.
Day 2 (Tuesday)
Waking up early
again. Sleepy and tired we got our breakfast. After like half of hour, we
headed to the training centre. We used local underground - it's a lot more
complicated than Prague underground. Soon we arrived to the centre and first
introduction began. They showed us whole centre and then we began learning. It
was really long but also interesting. Then we went back via underground to go
shopping in Lidl. We got back to hostel afterwards and there we went playing
billiard. Few games of billiard and Counter Strike later it was dinnertime.
Then we watched film for a while and after that, we went to sleep.
Day 3 (Wednesday)
Once again,
waking up extremely tired we headed for our breakfast. After that, we had
little time to prepare ourselves for another day at the training centre. After
a short trip by underground, we arrived to our destination. Today we were
talking a lot about the routing protocols or the redundancy of the networks. We
ended our lesson at about 3 PM and from there we headed to the national Berlin
museum. It was a nice place however, it was a bit long for me. Also I was really hungry. After the museum, I
went with a few of my roommates - Kovi, Štěrbič and Narek - to the large
shopping centre. In the end, we also visited the Dunking Donuts to grab our
donut and chocolate - it was really nice. After a trip back to hostel, we went to
play billiard. We also met there a nice and friendly girl from America. We
talked about her High school, our home countries and lot of other topics. After
a nice chat, we went back to our room and called a night.
Day 4 (Thursday)
My deep sleeping
mode was interrupted by Narek’s stupid early alarm. Sleepy and tired I headed
for my mug of coffee, which quickly became a must have for my every morning. After
breakfast, as usual, we travelled to the learning centre. Today’s main topic
were LANs, WLANs or MPLS. Most of the
information we already knew from our school, so it wasn’t hard to understand
the lesson. After we were done learning, we headed back to our hostel. We arrived pretty quickly, because another
hockey match was on – our team was playing against the USA. Sadly, we lost that
match. We had lot of time left, so we (Me, Domča, Štěrbič and Kovi) decided to
go jogging for a while. Starting from the hostel entrance, we jogged through
the park and many streets. Exhausted we returned back to the hostel to take a
shower. Dinner followed later and after that,
we went playing billiard again. Few games later, we were too sleepy so we went
to sleep.
Day 5 (Friday)
Friday it's
there finally, so waking up was somewhat more satisfying. After fuelling myself
with coffee, I headed with my group to the training centre. Today we tried to
design our imaginary corporation with given budgets and requirements. After the
end of the lesson, we headed to the Tegerel See, where we rented a pedal boat.
It was a nice trip around the lake and we all really enjoyed it. On the way
back, we grabbed few bratwursts. Long way back to the hostel, so we were happy
to have dinner. In our room, we chatted for a while and then we went to play
billiard. After few games, we all left to take a shower and go to sleep.
Day 6 (Saturday)
It’s Saturday,
so we don’t have to wake up so early – we have breakfast at 9 AM, so plenty
time for sleeping. After breakfast, we went to videogame museum. There were so
many fantastic retro games, that I used to play or I always wanted to. However,
there was a one game that really caught my attention. It was a game called
PainStation, where you played classic pong. But it wasn’t so easy, every time
you missed a ball, you got electrocuted, whipped by plastic stick or you got
your hand heated. After I almost couldn’t be able to feel my hand anymore, we
headed to pick our teacher Ms. Vavroušová. Then we had a little tour around
Berlin with her. We also showed her the way to our hostel, because she was
there for the first time. Dinner followed after and also as usual, few games of
billiard. Then we went to sleep.
Day 7 (Sunday)
Another
beautiful morning, when I didn’t have to wake up early. It was really sunny so
after breakfast we headed to the Berlin zoo. We didn’t have the tickets for
bus, so we walked all the way to the zoo. The zoo wasn’t as large as ours in
Prague but it was nice anyway – lot of interesting animals that I haven’t seen
for a long time. After finishing our tour around the zoo, we headed to KFC to
grab our lunch. Then we decided to go to the Alexanderplatz to do the shopping
in Primark – really cheap clothes shop. It was really long way and our feet
weren’t feeling good. After we were done shopping we headed back to hostel. I
was really tired, so I gladly accepted the dinner at the restaurant. Back at
our room we played Counter Strike for a while and then we went to sleep again.
Day 8 (Monday)
Once again we
have to wake up early to get our 7 AM breakfast. Even though half of us was
still sleeping, we headed to the training centre. I grabbed my coffee, found my
desk and started preparing for the start of the lesson. It was not bad, but I
was still sleepy and tired. Fortunately, a few mugs of coffee quickly fixed
this. After the end of lesson, we had plenty of time left, so we went with few
of my friends and our teacher to a local basketball field. It was fun, get to
sport and move after hours of sitting and staring into computer. After one hour
we returned back to our room to take a shower and afterwards eat our dinner.
Then, few games of Counter Strike later we called a night and went sleeping.
Day 9 (Tuesday)
Nice waking up
again – three different alarms ringing, screwing up my sleep again. Breakfast
coffee powered me up little bit and I was ready for another teaching lesson at
the centre. Kind of interesting lesson, we installed a Windows 10 on a virtual
computer. It was easy so everything went pretty well. After the end of the
lesson we went to Naturkunde museum – no, it wasn’t a human body exhibition as
almost everyone thought, but a museum of nature. I really enjoyed it, also
because I was in a group with few of my friends and our teacher who often
explained to us many things we didn’t know or we were curious about. There were
many animals, including dissected mammals or birds. The excursion continued
with skeletons of dinosaurs (there was a really huge one – T-rex called
Tristan) and at the end, planets and the Space. At the end, we headed straight
to the restaurant for dinner. After dinner we played Counter Strike for a while
and then we went sleeping.
Day 10 (Wednesday)
I still don’t get why our room has like 4 alarms set to ring at the
same time. Whatever, it’s time to grab my breakfast and prepare my stuff for
learning. Shortly after, we headed to the centre. Same as always, as soon as I
arrived I grabbed coffee and went learning again. Today we were ending little
bit earlier, because we were going later to the Berlin’s Olympique stadium. It
was really huge and there were many other playfields like pool, 2 football
fields. We have also taken a peek to inside of the stadium – from VIP lounge to
changing rooms and showers. I really enjoyed it. Then, we headed for our dinner
at hostel. Billiard and Counter Strike followed after and then we went to
sleep.
Day 11 (Thursday)
Morning again. Why can’t they just let me to sleep whole day?
Anyway, I went for my breakfast and prepared everything for upcoming lesson.
Today we will be finishing our project – designing a network, once again, but
this time we will have to make a presentation and on Friday present it to the
others. Time flew by extremely fast, because we were working all the time. For
me, it was more interesting than learning the regular way. After the lesson, we
headed to the hostel. I didn’t have anything planned, so I was mostly playing
billiard or relaxing. Dinner at the restaurant followed after and then
sleeping.
Day 12 (Friday)
Woking up, realizing this is the last day at the training centre. Morning
coffee kicked me up and I was ready for a presentation day at the training
centre. When we arrived, we still had 2 hours to finish our presentations. Then
everyone started presenting. It was quite long and I almost had my presentation
at the end of our lesson. Even our lecturer looked tired and I understood him.
After that, we got our certificates and took a final photo. Shopping time
followed after, we visited Primark at the Alexandrplatz and some shops on the
Podstdamer Platz. Back to our hostel, we had to pack up our stuff and get ready
for leaving Berlin tomorrow. After dinner and a billiard tournament, we went to
sleep.
Day 13 (Sunday)
It’s departure
day – we had to clean our rooms after the breakfast and then head to the bus
station to board our coach. Au revoir Berlin, now we are heading back to
Prague. It didn’t take too long and we were, after 2 weeks, back in Prague.
Strange feeling, huh? Anyway, we picked up our luggage and everyone headed its
way.
Václav Král, I3.B
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