Leggenda @ ESA

The aim of CdSA is to conquer the world, its members are working hard on this. In this optic I took on the fly the opportunity to go to ESA operational department in Estec.

CdSA never sleep, something is always going on.

In this period I'm involved with my CdSA colleague Escapable (Fuggevole) in some internal Open Sky projects which refer to 3D and MVV future television applications. It's an interesting activity that put the basis for a possible great revolution in the home TV usage, in 20 years. Nothing is sure all this work is very theorical and nowadays still very probabilistic and futuristic.
As said it's expected that in 20 years more or less it could become a realistic and possible common scenario.

Let's come back to the meeting, on the 5th of November I went to Estec, the Esa operational department located near Amsterdam. With my tutor we went there to present the first part of our work in collaboration with our two partners Astrium (from France) and HHI (from Germany).

It has been a very fast and well done come out, we had the departure at 6:15 from Venice, arrived in Amsterdam, where I have to say, there is one of the bigger airport I've ever seen, we had an hour moving to Estec by taxi. Unfortunately we found a very rainy day, and, gosh, I was without umbrella.... Luckily we had to be quite always inside. Truly I saw Amsterdam only from the taxi and to be precisely I saw only suburbs of Amsterdam, great land with a number of cow and gulls and weirdly a lot of people by bike also if it were heavy raining. We found a lot of traffic a very big mess. It remembers us our loved Italy. We got two taxi driver because one of them was at his second day work, and the other was teaching him the work, I think that in a few weeks they let him also start drive....

Finally we arrived to the identification point and we started our stay in Estec.
Getting our badges we founded our partners, there were three men from HHI and a couple from Astrium, I have to say that Ariane one of the Frenches was very good looking, very delicate and cute, but when she took off her coat we realized that she is always a lot pregnant....
What a pity, my dears!!

Estec seems to be a little village, it is very big, it has every type of infrastructure you want, from football arena, to swimming pool and gym and so on, to private vegetable plots for the workers.

Another funny thing I found there was the pneumatic mail, that covers the whole structure. Awesome, you asked by Skype to your colleague, that is in another building, a pen he put it there and send it to you without moving from his chair... what a comfort!!!!

In the whole meeting I had a few defiance moments when my chief left me alone in the middle of the discussion with the others, I passed minutes hoping none did ask me something I don' know. Luckily I could be able to overcome every situation.

From the beginning of the journey I was very worried about the food. What would have happened to me!!!! Help!!!
For lunch we went to ESA refectory, that was very big and it had various world cuisine, from French to Indian and so on.
I chose in safety and I went for an hot dog a piece of pizza and fried potatoes, with a healthy banana.

The dinner was more toughly, We had it at the big airport of Amsterdam, and my thief suggest for sushi.... oh my God, I think I had an insanity second, but I decided to try eat.... I'm not sure still now that I made the right choice.

The same evening we came back to the airport, this transfer had been as the mourning one, with a lot of traffic we caught a mini bus with all our colleagues, I was so tired that many times I was falling asleep.

A special mention must be done for Netherlands's girls, It must been said that I visited only the airport and Estec “town”, but I have to say that for sure Sweden is another world!!! Nothing comparable. In Netherlands I saw a very few lovely girls in my short trip, I came back very disappointed from this point of view, But I'm conscious that I must give Netherlands another possibility and visit it for a longer time.

I'll do it as soon as I can.

Finally a little resume of the work done (negligible part). :D

The whole day has been very funny and interesting we met our partners at the registration centre where we got our badges. The meeting takes a long time from 10 to 12 in the mourning and from 13:30 to 17 in the afternoon. We presented our work without any problem it must be said that our Esa reviser seems to be a little conditionable, there had been two critical points where we thought she would have reject our work, because some problems of our colleagues, but it has been necessary only to trick her as everyone can do with a child, to overcome this troubles.

This is the first step of CdSA great and ambitious plan, other Old Member are dealing on this, update will be performed as soon as possible in these pages. So keep in contact.

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