Leuven's Life - part 4

Giusto due parole in italiano per tutti i miei amici che mi stanno leggendo:
è difficile iniziare una nuova vita lontano da casa. Per nessuno è facile fare delle scelte che riguardano così profondamente se stesso.

Per ora le giornate scorrono tranquille, con tante scartoffie e moduli da riempire. Sveglia, colazione, lavoro, pranzo, lavoro, spesa/pulizie, cena, internet/film. Questo più o meno l'andazzo.

Ma domenica sera, non mi faccio mancare l'appuntamento allo stuk! (gli erasmiani sanno....)


Presto pubblicherò qualche foto di dove sto.

Leuven's Life - part 3

After one week I've to say that the future developments of my subject might become really interesting.

Well, are you wondering which is my topic. To be very easy: you put silicon in a furnace, you put on top a layer of metal, you cold down fast and - as different dilatation coefficient - the silicon cracks! Cracks in a thin layer (around 50 thousandth of a millimeter) and this will be (after some processing) a solar cell.
I just to start to understand the organization of IMEC, my collegues, what I HAVE TO do, what I may do, and what I'm not allowed to do.

Just a curiosity: I sign the contract with the university. Here the salary is indexed, and so depends from inflaction and similar. I first ask to a person that said me an amount, than to another that said me an higher amount, and then to another one said me also higher... well... I started from 1500 and I'm yet arrived to 1750 netto. Do you think that if I countinue to ask people I'll reach 2000?!?

The truth is that - like in Italy - the bureaucracy is very high. In particular 'cause two different institution are involved. But also none knows how much I'll got paid. I've to wait the end of october to have just an idea (special refund, not the whole month worked, ...), and the end of november to have a definitve answer to my wondering...

Leuven's Life - part 2

It's very VERY difficult explain what happened the moment I left my dad at the security check...
Suddenly I felt a strange weight over myself, a sense of deep lonelyness, a kind of desolation...

WHAT AM I DOING HERE?!?

I never ever felt those feelings and emotions before.

And I start to cry, and when you drive isn't the best thing might happen.

I arrived in my new, cold, unfamiliar home and I fall asleep again.

I woke up around 10 and I read a letter that my brother, secretely, put in my bag. "To read after dad left" was written on top. It was a letter full of fondness and care about what I'm gonna to start. There was also included two pictures of me and my brother when we were kids, in particular one...

And I cryed again, and also now that I'm writing these rows, I'm crying again.
I'm laughing of myself :D

Leuven's Life - part 1

Here again... yes!
The travel from Italy was gone pretty well. A lot of traffic, in Germany, as usual. Me and my father stopped then a night to our friend JeanMarc in Strasbourg.
A very nice city, for sure to visit again with more time and calm.

The first day - that was also the day of my birthday - it was pretty funny that, just after bring into my room all my baggage, we fall in sleep.

The day after I started to going around to enroll myself to the university, namely KUL, go to the bank to open an account, to buy a new mobile SIM and so on... meanwhile my dear dad help me (actually I help him as he did most of the work!) to clean the house.

On saturday we made a long walking around the city... the arenberg castle, IMEC of course, the beghinhof, Oude Markt and the City Hall, Ladeuzenplein with the library and "the bug"... and soon was arrived sunday morning. VERY morning as we woke up around 4AM to go to the airport for the flight to go back in Italy.