PROJET MULTI-DICIPLINAIRE
SciLab, the annoying crappy program
We're using Best Gauss Fitting (least square method on a Gaussian function) to calculate the exact position of star's center - which then will be used to figure out how the satelite is oriented (but that's not our business).
We're at the moment working with a program called SciLab, and it's a pain in the ass. It's like MatLAB for those who know that program, but is free. The problem with SciLab is that there is little information and it crashes every now and so often. Annoying!
Therefore we're sick and tired of working (but we've made some progress). Tonight I'm going to a Norwegian evening at Synnøve's before I visit Edith's place, where I've been invited for a house warming party (crémaillère)!
Tomorrow it's once again time for skiing, this time with Gliss INSA and yet another crémaillère, but this time at Erik and Sindre's place! It's going to be a great weekend!
I hope you all have had a good week so far and that you can use your weekend to restituate and charge your batteries for the next week!
THE END OF AN ERA
Therefore I worked a bit on the album Sunday morning before a bunch of us ate cake at a café in Place Saint Georges (I think). We've been there before and this time Nina, Kristian, Geir and I decided to order 8 pieces of cake (huge ones) - because we were hungry and we wanted to try many different cakes! It was fantastic, but a bit much!
Lots of cake (half of them)!
In the evening we went to a restaurant called Pottok. On the way home I couldn't find my phone so I figured I had left it at Pottok. I went towards the restaurant, but couldn't remember the way and got lost for about 10 minutes before I found the restaurant - closed.
Luckily I could hear people behind the metal door so I knocked to get their attention. After about five minutes of knocking a guy came out asking what I wanted. All the seven people in the restaurant started helping me out to find the phone. When one of them called my number I realized it had been in my hoody pocket all along. Embarrassing!
Monday = sports, I do badminton this semester. In the evening it was "Soirée parrainage" - which means foreign students can find French students to have as a tutor/helper. Before the party the "old" Erasmus gang had a dinner in R1 to get together one last time with Fie and Nina. Geir and I handed over the photo album - and it was a great success :)
After the soirée we had a goodbye session with tears, hugs and laughter. It's really sad that our favourite danish girls are leaving us. I'm really going to miss you both!
I got three hours of sleep because of a small breakfast we had with the girls at 07h. The day has been really hard, because of lacking sleep and because of the girls.
Everyone is a bit down, but we're trying to cheer ourselves up, that's why I'm heading over to Juha's to see a movie. Good night everyone!
AX-LES-THERMES
The action of the day happened as I had some turns (fantastic by the way) in some semi-rotten powder snow. I managed to drive the front-end of the snowboard into the snow and tipped over. Three "summer vaults" later I stopped, luckily I was all right ... But my backpack wasn't. My companion through many years was torn apart during the fall.
My dead backpack. RIP
I didn't notice this until I had continued a few meters, therefore Kristian and the others had to return on a rescue mission to pick up a shoe and a sock that had fallen out during my tumbling. Really sad about the backpack, but luckily I got a suitable replacement for Christmas!
I'm not going to write much, I will just show a few pictures taken today:
Synnøve, Fie, Malena and I on our way in the skilift!
The view from the highest mountain top was amazing!
PS. I have been quoted online for the first time in my life today. Mia Holte, a Norwegian webdesigner used my point of view on webdesign as a part of her article on the subject (in Norwegian). Not much, but I find it a bit fun :)
Oh well ...
I hope you all have had a great weekend so far! Until next time!
SKIING
Therefore I've been pretty messed up all day using coffee actively to get through it. The presentation went ok, not too much fuzz. I was the one who said the least, but that's normal in this country. I hope the teachers liked my pictures. I'll post the result (my photos) of the course when I get Jean's USB key on Monday.
Saturday is skiing day this week! We're leaving from the metro station Faculté de pharmacie at 06:00:00 tomorrow morning!
It's going to be great!
MY PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE
I can unfortunately not say that I've learned very much new, but I have refreshed my memory with the basics. I found the lesson with the history of photography interesting the first 30 minutes, but when we got to picture 100 to talk about, explain and destroy with talking I'd had it.
Another fun incident was how the architect explained how a sensor works, it was a quite interesting (and not very correct explanation) of how how he had understood electrons to fly around - or something (Yes there are electrons that get exited by photons, but not in the way the teacher explained). His polarization filters also works a bit differently than all the other polarization filters I know ... Oh well :)
Today, Wednesday we finished a bit earlier, around 16h. I managed to join Malena, Fadia, Annika, Synnøve, Joao, Roberto, Kristian, Kristofer and Joao to see a movie. We wanted to see the one about Che, but only the second part was shown. Instead we saw Revolutionary Road with Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio. Not a favourite.
Annika, Synnøve, Roberto and (sneaky) Fadia after enjoying GREAT vegitarian food
Everyone except Kristofer (going to guitar practice) went to "Annika's" vegetarian restaurant. 12€ for a buffét, we love the place! The group split, Kristian, Joao and I went to meet Nina, Geir, Cate and Thomas (visiting from England) and have a nice cup of tea. We made it back at 23h before the metro closed.
The tea drinkers are Geir, Cate and Thomas
A long day in other words, but really fun!
Tomorrow it's "grêve générale" in France, meaning that most people are striking. This means no photography course for me (!) and no public transportation. I have still set my mind to go Carrefour'ing, so I'm going to borrow a bike to get there (my beauty has a flat tire).
Good night everyone!