Holy smoke, yesterday was a great kitesurfing day. I was at Waddell Creek which is located about 20 miles up Highway 1 from Santa Cruz. The weather was perfect, no clouds and perfect wind for my 9m Waroo.
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Last weekend was awesome. We (a group of 9 people, mostly coworkers from my internship company) went to Lake Tahoe which is located about 220 miles from Palo Alto on the border between CA and NV.
On Saturday afternoon we rented a motorboat and went out to the lake - this was probably the best idea one could have. Watching the sunset was gorgeous.
Here are a few pics:
According to JP we have taken about 1600 pictures this weekend. If I had not forgotten my password I would have uploaded mine to flickr. By the way, any suggestions how to retrieve my password if I do not remember the birth date, ZIP and all the other mumbo jumbo I had to provide on registration?
I was not really brimmed over with enthusiasm when the guy who is renting me the room where I’m going to stay until end of July asked me to come to his workplace to sign the rental agreement. However, this feeling turned into sheer excitement when I found out that the address he gave me - 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View - was the location of the Google headquarter.
Since I have heard a lot of positive things about Google as an employer, I was very keen to see everything with my own eyes.
The first thing I noticed after my arrival was a nice beachvolleyball court surrounded by a lot of impressive buildings - wow, that was pretty cool.
After meeting my host I got a visitor badge and we headed right to one of the restaurants (if I remember correctly there are 14 different restaurants on the site).
When I entered the restaurant I was overwhelmed again - so much different food to choose from and everything was free. This must be heaven
Well, after spending 15 minutes deciding what to eat I finally ended up with pizza and salad - as usual 
When we were finished with eating, my host showed me around the offices and other facilities the company has to offer.
Every few seconds I saw something which made me think either “wow, that’s awesome”, “unbelievable”, “oh my god, that’s incredible”, “I want to have this” or “this is totally crazy”
Every workplace that I saw consisted of at least two 24-inch (or something like that) screens, I saw one guy who was using 6 monitors and a laptop.
The gym was also very impressive, next to it there were even two whirlpools.
There are ‘micro-kitchens’ everywhere to get a snack or something to drink - well, this doesn’t look very ‘micro’ to me
Ok, that’s it for today - see ya.
It’s now one week since I am in Palo Alto, CA. I’m here to do an internship for about 7 months. The whole trip started on June 30th when I took a flight from Vienna to London Heathrow. In Heathrow, I had to stay at a hotel for one night because the flight from LHR to San Francisco was scheduled for July 1st 10:50am. Although the security has been highly increased on Heathrow Airport because of the terror attack on Glasgow Airport the day before, there were no major delays and everything went smoothly. The flight itself was quite enjoyable, thanks to extended legroom, nice people sitting next to me and the inflight entertainment system. It was my first long-haul flight by the way. After the arrival on SFO airport I lost a lot of time at the baggage claim area because my bag with the kitesurfing-gear was lost (they delivered it to my hotel the next day). On the ride from SFO to my Hotel - using Supershuttle to save a few bucks - I saw my first real iPhone. The guy who was sitting next to me on the van got it the day before.
Things have been quite stressful during the last few days, because there are a lot of things I have (or had) to do:
Well, that’s it for today. I don’t have anything else to tell at the moment but I’m sure there will come up a lot of interesting news I will be glad to share with you on this blog during the next few months
So, stay tuned!