Week 2 has already passed and I have no clue on how 4 weeks of Erasmus+ can be enough to claim that you have seen the city and experienced everything you could...
Things are just getting started here.
My first big discovery was that Schio has a freshly built Skatepark and next to it (the important part) a calisthenics park where I can now finally work out.
This discovery was due to me already having given up on finding one and wanting to sign up for a gym.
Luckily I could not find it where Google was sending me and instead, I found 100 meters away my new favourite place in Schio!
Now to my work:
I finished my second and (for now) last week in procurement which I really enjoyed.
I learned a lot and my colleagues there were simply amazing.
Next week I am switching to sales and see the perspective from the people who are going to get the money in, that procurement is spending.
On Friday I visited a supplier, who is also located in Schio, with a colleague.
It was really interesting to see how industrial machining takes place and how the fundamentals of our society are being machined so that we do not end up in complete and utter mayhem.
Those people from the supplier we visited did not speak a word of English and that is where I have to give a huge compliment to Hydro.
The people of Andritz are simply going crazy on languages.
Nearly everyone working in the office speaks English on a level where communicating is fun and also lot of people are extremely fluid in Spanish! (A thing I could have wished for in the last 5 years :))
To see the pinnacle of mastering languages I would like to point out my colleague Gianmarco in procurement. He can speak on a conversational level the following languages: Italian,
English,
Spanish and
German!
These are simply four languages that he can switch on command if demanded!
My superior called him the jukebox of languages and I wholeheartedly agree here!
But how did I spend the weekend this time?
I got recommended a ton of places again and on the weekend I ventured to "Marostica", a small village with a huge "chessboard" on the main square where they are going to play a game with humans as figures in September.
Sadly this ticket is way beyond a reasonable price.
Otherwise, I would have liked to watch that from close.
Besides that, Marostica is simply a beautiful city, which is still surrounded by old medieval stonewalls and a ruin on top of the hill.
Everyone heading in the direction of Verona/Venice should definitely visit this place!
I can highly recommend it!
FYI: I still have not befriended the streets of Italy...
See ya next week!