Couple exams, Pacs and some football

This week started with a really tough day. First school from 8 to 12 and an exam at 16. So I just used the break to eat and revise for the exam. Exam was in Heat Transfer, it went quite well and then was time to go to play some football. We played agains Brazilians and the game was expected to be tough. It was, we were first losing it 0-2 but somehow we managed to come back. I scored our second goal and the winner from throw-in. Brazilians went mad, they were shouting to us, kicking us and shouting to the referee. Really childish. For example I was running in the midfield and one of them just kicked my feet and I almost fell-down. After the game they complained about the throw-ins, the pitch and the referee. We throw them sometimes by hand and sometimes kick by foot. Nowhere is a rule about it and the referees accept then so why not. Our captain made a good answer for the organisers and we'll see what happens. They will also meet on Friday. I am not saying the referee was the best and the intensity of the game was quite high so it wasn't an easy game to whistle. Well, both teams are trying to win this tournament, but I thing either of the teams really benefit from the referee. Nevertheless the tournament is for fun and I really don't understand how seriously they took it and how unfair they played in the end. Still there was also some nice guys who were trying to calm others and shake our hand congratulating us from the win. We are now in the lead, 12 points after 4 games and I have scored now 11 goals in 3 matches.

The field in Csörsz utca we have played all our games.

Then Tuesday was Pacs nuclear power plant visit. It was cool, they have two reactors in the same hall, so they were able to use partially the same equipment at both of the facilities. Totally they have installed 4x500 MWe. And all the plants are similar, they are actually pretty same than in Loviisa, Finland. Special for these plants is also that if the pressure or temperature in the hall increases, there is behind a wall(which will break when the pressure is too high(if I remember correctly)) cold water reserves as a some kind of a condenser. At Pacs there is a nuclear plant maintenance training centre, where is parts from planned, but never built nuclear power plants from East Germany. There is at least the reactor hall and the steam generator.

The training centre: first from the left is upper support plate, second from left is the bottom core of the reactor and on the right the upper or middle part of the core.

Reactor, where you can see inlet nozzles(big ones second from the top), in the upper part also outlet nozzles and the small ones emergency core cooling system nozzles.

A regular but quite huge valve

Me and low-pressure turbine!!

Today was the second exam, Air Conditioning. It went also quite well and after that I went to swim with one of my team mates. It was really good training there. Funny and disappointing is that when we went there, the guy at the desk who sold us the tickets didn't tell there was a water ball training going so we needed to wait it to end. Well luckily the training ended in 15 minutes so we didn't need to wait for a long but still quite weird...Also the price was higher than usually, but it is only for this week, because I think there is a holiday for those who are in elementary school in Hungary.

Best day of the 'Slovanian trip' The coast of SLO and Italia

First we left Ljubljana early and drove to Piran(little Venice) in Slovenian coast. It was really quiet, touristic and nice place. And not least, it was sunny day!

PIRAN

Main square

There is the land of my dreams: Italy

Found a girl, thought a really cold one :D

Piran

TRIESTE('The italian coffee capital')

We heard from a guy in Piran that the people in Trieste drink coffee till 9pm and after that alcohol. At least at Friday it seemed to be the case. There were some cafes/bars where people were drinking outside, even thought it was quite cold. We found our hostel/guesthouse from web, while sitting for a coffee in one cafe. It was near the railway-station and the centre.

Finally in Italy

Ice-cream outside in late October, I wouldn't believed!

At the top of Castello S.Giusto

The car of my dreams

I like the Italian style to serve snacks if you buy drinks

Saturday, the 4th day

We left Trieste before 10 am and drove back. It was a good trip. It is always a little exiting to see new places and we visited 5 different cities in just 3/4 days. 

First days of a little Slovenian trip

1st day
We started our trip, with one German and Turkish guy, Wednesday evening at 6pm. We rented a car(Opel Astra) from the Ariport and plan was to go first Zagreb and then Ljubljana. Well, we weren't able to go to the Croatia, because I forget my passport. So instead of Zagreb we went to first the first night to Maribor. It was wiry green, clean and nice small town in Easter Slovenia. After a little asking and searching we found a room with three beds.

Journey begins

Mexican food at Maribor

Maribor, Drava-river

Logo of Maribor FC:s ultras

2nd day: Celje and Ljubljana

We left Maribor quite early and started our journey to Ljubljana. On our way we stopped to small town Celje. It was quite nice place and we climbed to the hill nearby. 

Voglajna-river and the church

View to the city from the hill

Main street, yeah it was raining.

Then we went to Ljubljana, we made the reservation for this Hostel already when we were in Maribor so we first checked in to this place. And it was raining quite hard all day...

There were a lot of bookshops :)

Ljubljana from Castle-hill

Another from the Castle

Slovenian beer

Cool wall in one bar/restaurant

A 6 day working week

Now I am tired. We had this week two 'Fridays' because next week we will have also the Friday off. Next Thursday is Hungarian Revolution day, so that is always a holiday, but now we get the Friday also so we have a long weekend. So we had the same subject and lecturer for two days in a row and for 3 hours each. At Friday we had our first real laboratory. It was okay, the instructions we get were actually a little constricted and I wouldn't now how to calculate what we are supposed to calculate to the report if I wouldn't have the course of Combustion technology here too.

One of the best news this week was that we managed to change one date of an mid-term exam so we could go now to Pacs nuclear power plant. That will be probably quite interesting. Thought I think we will not see much but at least the professor who will be there seemed a vice man. He had been working for more than 30 years building(mean planning them and been at the projects) in West-Germany and Hungary so I think he might tell us something interesting. And as usually I did some sports during the week, but we didn't have this week our football-league so just swimming and running this time. After the hard week we went to visit some Pubs at the centre of Budapest.

Delicious Burger

Sky Bar

Some underground bar and some bicycles they rent

From Margared Bridge to the Pest side

The track line that goes round the Island

Margared Island

More regular weekend at Budapest

Friday I went again to swim to Margared Island. I went there at the morning around 10 and it was quite quiet again so I had a good training session. Short school day, we had fuel cells as a topic and the lecturer said before he had talked about them even an hour that he don't have anything to add. Just asked if we had any questions and wished us all a good weekend!

After that I went home, eat some and went with one other Finnish ERASMUS-student to Octoberfest, which was held at a park called Varosliget. It was really cool place and the festival was actually in a fake-lake which was dried just for the event. Well its never very deep, probably less than half meters so it isn't so big task to do. There were some different small breweries from Hungary and some from other countries also(Big ones from Germany, Poland and also small(or at least unknown) from Belgium).

Banana beer

Pink elephant(cherry beer)

View and tent of Paulaner

Saturday was just for some studying and taking easy but Sunday I went again to cycling to the Buda hills. The view were again magnificent and I probably was able to enjoy them even more than the first time since the route and the streets were more familiar. Though didn't take many pictures because enjoying the speed.

From the first break before really long uphill

Little tower at the turning point of the trip

 

Back to the business

After the great weekend it was time to start the school and study-life again. I caught also a flu at the weekend so I was unable to play football at Monday. Team won thought, so it was good. The early week went quite fast I had a lot to do in the school, very long days from 8-18 and 8-16. We had our first laboratory in Combustion technology. Though it was really short and we just watched the lecturer to use weld and show us the flame. And also he showed how a bunsen burner works with a different mixture. The main thing was to recognise the difference between premixed and diffuse flame, and to understand how to manage the burning.

Also we get the date of our first test and it is one week after it was supposed to be. Now I might be unable to go visit Pacs Nuclear Power Plant at the same day. Though I wrote to the lecturer so maybe he will be able to organise a test for me in a different time. I hope so especially 'cos the visit to Pacs is also told to be obligatory for other course.

Wednesday I heard at the Air Conditioning about a weird sounding custom. If we pass the exams(get 50% of the points) we will have to go to the oral exam in January! But if we get more than 63% of the points we get the grade 3 and we don't need to go to the further exams.

Today we had a visit to Livable Future Park, which was a disappointment. Yes, maybe it is really energy independent, but really almost the only thing they do with the energy is warming and cooling the houses. For example they didn't seem to use the computers upstairs, actually except one, they were all covered. Moreover they didn't have yet a central-controlled energy system, just monitoring was possible so it wasn't really so unique. Though it was good example that yes we have the technology to do this kind of a thing. Only reason why we don't do it is the money and that traditional ways of consuming energy are in use and energy production with fossil fuels is too cheap.

Second thing that was good today was I went for a run after a long long break!

The solar panels: at the time they were producing 6-9 kW energy

Smallest hydro-microturbine I have ever seen. Claimed capacity 200 W but because of leaves etc.
was producing just 50 W of energy

About 40 kWh batteries(Twice as much as in
Michubishi iMIEV and half of Tesla Model S)

Wind turbine(20 kW, I think the same size than in LUT)

Yeah, they have heat pumps

Dog and a red car, one animal per blog, I think it is must?

A great weekend in great company

Pictures tell more than the words. Great weekend, I couldn't even imagine a better one! With my girlfriend we visited some of the sights, restaurants, pub's etc. and had a great time. Forget completely all the school-stuff and other boring ordinary stuff for the weekend! This is really a beautiful city with great restaurants and nightlife