My impressions of Málaga

¡Hola! My name is Sven Hendricks and I am 22 years old. In Germany I am working as an IT-Specialist for System Integration at the Bull GmbH which is located near the Center of Cologne.

Here in Málaga I worked at the I.E.S Campanillas with my twin brother Mirko. The I.E.S Campanillas is the school which is planning the exchange program with our vocational school in Germany every year. Our job here was to set up a firewall including an Internet gateway with a captive portal and a proxy-server. For that we had to set up a router including two NICs (one for WAN, one for WLAN). We never did such a task in Germany so it was nice and we could learn a lot. After that Juan Antonio showed us some cabling of his house and the school and he taught us how to do it the same way.

Besides our work at the I.E.S Campanillas we had a lot of free time to visit beautiful places in and around Málaga. We visited the botanical garden, the beach (of course) and the whole center of Málaga . Last week we visited Granada and Gibraltar. Gibraltar was the most amazing place we visited in these four weeks. You can't imagine how nice the view from the top of the rock of Gibraltar is if you have never been there. And the fact that there are cute monkeys everywhere made it to one of the most spectacular places I have ever visited in my life. Not only these places were very nice, I think one of the biggest reasons for us that we had so much fun in Málaga was that the people were so friendly and helpful. This year we were very lucky because we stayed in Málaga over eastern and we could watch the whole Semana Santa. For us foreigners it was a very strange celebration because the people were dressed very uncommon for Germans but it was still nice to see.At the end I can say that I never regret just a second here in Málaga and for the pupils in Germany who will get the chance to do the same exchange program next year I want to say – Just Do It!!

Botanical Garden Málaga