This week inevitably and unfortunately I bid farewell to Wels and the friends I made there, for now. On Tuesday we had our last exam and our lecturer kindly moved it to an earlier date to accommodate the leaving foreign students. This action epitomised the great attitude of everyone at FH Wels and in particular I would like to thank all those in the international office. All our lecturers have been great but our physics lecturer in particular provided many moments of laughter thanks to his sometimes dodgy English, wonderful sense of humour and eccentric nature. Here are a couple of his odd and funny observations; “my main reason for not wanting an electric car is that if my wife uses it for shopping this would cost me more money because she will keep shopping while it charges“. “I have saved one ton of CO2 because I am bald and do not have to use a hair dryer”. “I don’t drink without driving”. In one class a number of Austrians were speaking in German and after questioning them then laughing he turned to us saying “I asked them what is the problem? They said: in between the chairs and the blackboard”. I can’t imagine many people being able to just laugh that off!
One of the Mexicans left this week as well and we had a night out at karaoke to say goodbye to her. Having never taken part before and gotten bored of listening to pop covers I decided to have a go at Thin Lizzys’ The Boys Are Back In Town. After chipping in early I figured I was now safe from having to perform again but behind my back the crafty Swedish women signed up the Finnish lads and me to sing some ABBA. Not knowing anything other than the chorus, myself and one of the Finns decided the other Finn who also happened to be the most sober of our trio should be in the middle with the microphone allowing us to dance like fools and jump in to shout Gimme Gimme Gimme when required. I’m sure it was entertaining but I don’t think they’ll be asking us back.
Our last class was on Friday and I took a set of pictures to show the journey from the student res. to the college. After that I had the bureaucratic stuff like closing my bank account, college library account and getting back the accommodation deposit. My room was packed on Saturday with all the Irish and Fins having beer and pizza while watching Braveheart. My last day in Wels was Sunday and it was just like so many other days here except that for once my room was clean since my room mate was already gone and I had to pack. I said goodbye to our Scandinavian contingent at the pool hall before doing the same with our Turkish kardesims and Mexican amigos at home.
I suppose now is as good a time as any to say thank you to all of my fellow students; the Austrians and the crazy foreigners. We certainly made for an eclectic bunch and without getting all sappy I will say that I will forever cherish the (too short!) time we had together. I look forward to the re-unions! Of course I must say thanks to my room mate as well. Thank you all once again for making this such a fantastic time in my life.
Week16, a set on Flickr.
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