My adventures in Zadar!

Hello everyone! My name is Cedric and I'm 18 years old. I currently am on an internship in Zadar. You can follow my adventures and internship in Zadar on this blog. Stay tuned!

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The last few days...

Hi everyone! The end is coming really close, so I wanted to recap the week so far. It’s been a productive and fun week!

At work we are fine tuning our app, making everything look prettier, work smoother and adding stuff. It is really satisfying to see the work we did over the last 3 weeks come together in an application. I love making it look good and doing the design of things so this was right up my alley.

At the apartment we took things slowly, we worked on our GP, watched some Netflix and that’s it. Yesterday Michiel and I went to a burger restaurant and it was delicious! 

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The beautiful Preko

Hello everyone, here I am back with a little update. On saturday, in the afternoon we took a ferry from Zadar to a nearby island called Preko. 

It was a pretty nice day (like almost everyday), we went to buy tickets and got on the boat. 

We arrived after about 20 minutes, from the coast at Preko you had a beatiful view of Zadar, with behind it breathtaking mountains. We took a walk beside the coast, one thing the 3 of us noticed is that there where almost no people out on the streets but that meant we had the most peaceful walk ever. 

The water was super clear as always and it was very inviting to jump in, wich we didn’t do ‘cause it is still pretty cold. After some walking we went to a local place to have a drink and then went back because the boat was ready to leave.

It was a very fun trip! So sad the internship is almost over.

See ya!

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Tasks at Futuro

Today I am going to tell you a little bit more about our tasks at Futuro Webdesign. (It’s a really good company to work btw.)

Like I already told you in a previous post, we were working on a Google Maps plug-in and website with custom legends and icons. This week we are integrating the website in an application for on your mobile phone.

This is our home page:

We made some new pages, like an about section wich displays our blogs and tells something more about Wout and myself. The app will not be public but it’s cool and fun to learn how to make an app and websites, and useful of cours.

This is the map we made as a site and after that in the app:

We plan on adding more pages and things to our app. The fun thing is we are pretty free in what we do, as long as we work and get something done ofcourse. We are both really satisfied with our tasks and things we do.

See ya in a bit!

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Our first whole weekend in Zadar

I am writing this on monday, so we are already going back to work but I wanted to make a little recap of the weekend.

On friday we went to explore the city for a bit, and took a walk besides the shoreline. That was arround sunset so it was an almost magical experience. In the evening we went out for a drink. We went to bed pretty early because we were all tired.

The next day we relaxed until arround noon, and then we went out for a quick bite, then we met up with the other group to take a walk trough a park. We also checked out the hours and price of the ferry sailing to a nearby island. We will probably take it next week. In the evening we went to a nearby basketball court to play basketball for a bit. After we went back to the appartment to refresh ourselves really quick we went out to explore the nightlife of Zadar. 

On sunday we rested for a bit and did some shopping at Kaufland, one of the bigger supermarkets nearby. In the evening we took a walk arround the harbor in Zadar.

Now back to work! ;)

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My first week working at Futuro

Today (friday), Wout and me finished our first week working at Futuro webdesign. We are working on a website with a Google Maps plug-in. We are placing custom markers on the map, adding a legend and so on. 

We work on our own laptop, we write code with Java and do visual styling with CSS. We are learning a lot since neather Wout or me knew anything about Java apart from that it is used for coding. 

We take the bike to work (almost) everyday. On wednesday it was raining and it is quite a ride to work so we took an Uber. When we go to work it takes about half an hour to 40 minutes to get there because we are driving uphill all the time, when we come back it is a lot of fun ‘cause we don’t have to do anything but cruise downhill. On the rest of the days it was beautiful weather like you see in the picture above. You would be crazy not to take the bike.

In the end the tasks at work are challenging but fun and we learn a lot, also the bike rides are fun too!

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Our first 2 days working at Futuro

On monday we went to Futuro for the first time. We got introduced to the boss and the people working there, and we went over what we could do in the company. Wout and me got our own desk to work on. 

(Wout: in the middle on the left, me to the right of him)

Today (Tuesday), we started on our first task. We needed to make a web plug-in for a map with some points of interest marked on it. We didn’t expect the task to be this hard but after some thinking and searching (and asking a colleague) we made it work.

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Our arrival and first day in Zadar

Hello everyone!

We safely arrived in Zadar yesterday evening. After a whole day of travel (from Brussels to Vienna and then to Zagreb, after that we flew to Split. Then we rent a car to Zadar. It took a long time so we were happy that we arrived.

After we settled down in our apartments yesterday we went out with our teachers to eat something and get a drink in a local place. We left to our apartment at around 11 and almost instantly went to sleep because we were very tired.

Today we went to the national park called Krka. It is very beautyful, we walked for a bit and took some photos. After a while we left to go shopping for the first time, we bought some basic stuff to cook and some drinks. When we arrived back at the apartment we cooked some food and now I am writing this post. :)

I will keep updating this blog for the rest of my internship, and maybe after that. See ya guys!

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My expectations

In 2 weeks I will be in Zadar, so I think it is about time I blog about my expectations. 

I think I will be learning a lot, not only at the company but also how to live in a group, taking care of myself and my classmates and so on. Off course I will also be learning a lot at the company, I’m glad that Wout (my classmate) and I get to go to Futuro because I think we will learn more at a smaller company that is mostly focused on one thing: webdesign. 

I’m also excited to be living with my classmates, we plan on cooking most of the time. Of course we also will be going to restaurants to taste some of the local dishes, espacially the fish! I expect to food to be to my liking, as I really like fish.

Finally I am excited to have some better weather then here in Belgium. I know it won’t be 30°c but at least a bit better than here would be nice!

This will probably be my final post before we actually leave in 2 weeks, see you then! 

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Our parents getting some information about our internship!

Earlier this week, on tuesday our parents were invited to an info evening about the internship. In total we are with 44 students this year, we are split up in groups. The country’s where other students are going include Malta, Czech Republic, Spain, Aruba, Amsterdam and London. 

The teachers who are responsible for this project explained everything very well, from the rules we have to follow to more info about the company we are going to be working at. They also reassured to our parents that we will be in good hands.

I am very much looking forward to this experience, and it is coming closer and closer. In about 2 weeks we finally leave! See ya!

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About Futuro

Hello, here I am already back with a new post. This time it is about the company I will be working in on my internship. The company is called Futuro and it mainly does webdesign and development.

I will be working at this company with my friend and classmate, Wout Veraghtert. The company is quite far away from where we are staying so we are planning to cycle there every day. 

Futuro has 15 years of experience in webdesign and development, they have done projects for Zadar airport, some local hotels and many more.

We are really looking forward to our internship there. Hope you are excited to see what’s to come on my blog.

See ya!

(I’ve added a link to their site so you can see other projects of them!)

https://www.futuro.hr/

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About Croatia

Hello everyone, this will be my first post on this blog. In this post I am going to tell you some information and fun facts about Zadar and Croatia.

Some typical food I defenitly want to try is ‘prshut’, it is Dalmatian smoked ham. Also they have different dishes with fish that I defenitly would want to try.

The things I really want to see are the Kresimir Cosic Sports Hall, the sea organ and the National park close to Zadar.

And now for some fun facts. Some parts of Game Of Thrones were filmed in Dubrovnik and Split and Croatia is home to the smallest country in the world.