First of all let me apologize for beeing absent for such a long time, I’ve been busy! Very busy. And on top of that I switched hosts, and my backup was corrupted  (ALWAYS CHECK YOUR BACKUPS!!!!!!), so I lost my uploads. This means that this website will no longer contain any pictures on content older than July 21th.

Here’s a quick headsup of my life in the last weeks:

• I went back to Belgium (sigh…)
• I graduated
• I have a new laptop (I know, AGAIN :’) )
• I passed my Microsoft 70-502 exam (WPF).
• I have a new phone, a T-Mobile G1 (again…)

I’ve been very busy on my internship report. It didn’t went too well, but I got some very good tips from a teacher (thanks).

As I graduated, I now am looking for a job. If you think I am the right person for you, feel free to contact me. The about me page will work again in a few moments!

Welcome back!

So I’ve been feeling very bad lately, sore neck, sore throat, sneezing, swollen lymph nodes, painful ears. Jees what a list.

Anyways: I go to the doctor’s here, which is free at campus. Little talk, little examination, appears I have strep throat, and a fluid drainage problems in my nose. So at night the fluids flow to the back of my throat which makes it feel sore. So the doctor prescribes something.

But that’s not interesting. Getting your medicine it pretty interesting for an European.

You go to Dillons, with your prescription, the doctor asks some questions. I needed to show ID, then they give you the medicine and then you need to sign.

Apparently law in the US is very strict to avoid misuse. And it’s not bad

I now have this very cool orange –like in the movies- medicine can/tupe/whatever you call it:

Most people will find this probably stupid, me posting this, but hey, it’s an all new experience for me.

Today I was at church with a good friend of mine, and the preacher was talking welcoming people who got back, and one of them was a soldier who fought in Irak for the last 2 months.

EVERYBODY. And I say EVERYBODY stood up and started applauding.

That is how proud the Americans are on their soldiers!

This is what we miss in Belgium. The feeling of a community.

I love this country.

PS: Thanks to Joe for always picking me up!

A few days ago I was walking on the streets with a friend. All of the sudden she says: “Oh look a cat under that car”, I look and I see ‘something moving’. As I walked closer the animal ran away.

And it wasn’t a cat.

It was this:

Without the snow ofcourse! It’s an opossum. Pretty cool

public class Main
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		Test t = new Test();

		System.out.println(t.getInt());
	}

	public class Test
	{
		public Test()
		{
		}

		public int getInt()
		{
			return 5;
		}
	}
}

While it works in C#:

class Program
{
	static void Main(string[] args)
	{
		Test t = new Test();

		Console.WriteLine(t.GetInt());

		Console.ReadLine();
	}

	public class Test
	{
		public Test()
		{
		}

		public int GetInt()
		{
			return 5;
		}
	}
}

If you move the class in Java to a seperate file it (obviously) works. But why? No idea.

And I like it

The weather is warming up, slow but steady. Yesterday it was actually 25 degrees Fahrenheit, which was pretty cold. Today it is around 55, with a bit of wind. The wind is the coldest over here, but I think when it gets 70+ the wind is quite pleasant

I really love my internship, great colleagues (thanks!). The classes them self are nice too, and very interesting too.

There is definitely a big difference in teaching in Belgium and over here.

The consequence of the teaching over here is that you DO a lot more out of class, not necessarily learning, but doing homework. But they are quite interesting

Yes I’ve got it!! My Social Security Number, which means I can be employed on campus over here and get payed! I can use the extra cash

(the white bars are the number and my signature, of course I cut those out ).

(which was a test ).

So apparently each Monday they test the alarm of the tornado warning at noon.

It was a very loud sound, so if we here it when its NOT noon we have to go to a shelter. What if a tornado strikes at noon? How do we distinguish a test out of a real thread?

They still have Dr. Pepper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (that itself is worth a whole blog post!).

And Coca Cola Cherry, and Pepsi Cherry, Diet Pepsi Cherrie, Mountain Dew with Cherry (Code Red). Heck, they probably have Cherry flavored cherry…