Flour Power

(photo by the_girl)

It was 6 months ago that I moved to Galway, Ireland, for a 6 months internship sponsored by the INOV Contacto program. It was 6 months ago that I left the comfort of the house I had lived in for the previous 20-something years and moved to a completely new place. It was 6 months ago that I had the first of many pints of Guinness…

Those were 6 great months.

A lot of fun was had at the awesome Irish pubs. Some travelling was done around Europe. A lot of people were met, and some became good friends.

Those were the good things, and although not everything was perfect, I really can’t point any especially bad experience. So the overall experience was very positive.

And that’s why I’m going back!

That’s right, I hadn’t made it official yet, but I’m announcing it now. The company where I did the internship offered me a contract extension and so I’ll go back to Galway for some more time.

It’s now time to rest, and I’ll be back in one week.

(photo by Mark van de Wouw)

Quark Expeditions is offering to send one lucky blogger to the Antarctic Peninsula for two week’s worth of freezing cold and penguins. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? That’s why I’m participating!

Here’s how it works… The one with the most votes by September 30 will be flown to Argentina in early 2010 to embark in one of Quark’s expeditions to Antarctica. The winner will become the expedition’s official blogger, and will have the responsibility of reporting the whole thing – the preparation, the expedition itself, and the return home. I think I’m qualified for the “job”, and that’s why I’m asking for your support.

Long story short, I need your vote:

Please vote here!

Yes, you have to register to vote, but it’s not that bad, it only takes a couple of minutes. You might have to check your spam folder for the confirmation email.

I’m gonna need thousands of votes to win this thing, so feel free to ask your family, friends and pets to vote for me. Also, sharing my link or a link to this post will be very much appreciated (just use the icons in the end of this post).

Thanks in advance for your help!

@ the Fancy Dress night of the Galway Corinthians Tag Rugby Tournament (I plan to explain this later)

Can you spot me?

The image above shows the closest I could get from the WiFi service on board of a gobus coach… That was after accepting the terms and conditions and answering questions about my opinion about the service. Yes, they did ask my opinion about it before I even used the damn thing…

Now it’s safe to say the service wasn’t that good, don’t you think?

I got all hyped up when I got the news that Gobus would start providing free on-board WiFi and was eager to test it. And now that I actually get to do it, it just doesn’t work. Big fail.

Well, at least I do have an opinion now, if they ask me again.

UPDATE: On the way back I tried to use the Citylink service, and didn’t work either. And it seems they’re both using the same system (fleetconnect). Well, considering that I have friends who managed to get it working, I’m wondering if it’s some kind of operating system incompatibility.