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To all my US friends
Last Sunday morning, I went to the broadcast performance of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (and orchestra). At the giant auditorium of the Conference Center (which can seat 21,000 people!) that gave away a beautiful program that is broadcasted to lots of tv- and radio stations nationwide, every Sunday of the year. Usually they have these [...]
The wedding!
Yesterday was finally the day that Ashley Elisabeth Bush and Michael Reid Bowes celebrated their wedding! But it actually already started at Saturday evening, when Ashley had invited me to come to her bachelorette party. It was very nice to meet some of her cousins, aunts and sisters-in-law! Now I knew some faces I would [...]
The final 900 km / 560 miles
On Thursday morning at 9 AM I took off from Lake Tahoe, direction Salt Lake City. When I was on the highway and my TomTom said “Turn right after 545 miles” (880 km) there was only 1 solution: cruise control switched on and 14 GB of music on shuffle! That’s how I arrived 9 hours [...]
Going with a bang…
My last day in San Francisco, last Sunday, has really been a blast! The day started early, to go to the 9am service at the Glide Memorial Church. Last year I’ve been there a couple of times too, and every time was a joyful, musical, and amazing experience. So I wanted to experience that again! [...]
Time flies when you’re having fun!
While everybody back home is going crazy about the results of the elections of last Wednesday and the upcoming soccer match of the Dutch team on Monday, I’m enjoying every second of my stay here in San Francisco. Yesterday I had dinner with all my former colleagues of Novedge (Franco, Cris, Gabriela and Carolyn) at [...]
Back in town!
It was a long and boring flight: 1 hour delay in Paris (where I had to transfer flights) because we couldn’t take off, and more delay somewhere above Napa valley because we couldn’t land at San Francisco airport (the circling of the plane made me feel pretty sick). Unfortunately we also didn’t have an in-flight [...]
Pre-holiday post
In 3 days, I’ll be on my way to San Francisco, the city I left my heart at a year ago when I was doing my graduation project. I’m very excited to visit this beautiful city again, often my mind wanders back to the hills and streets of “Frisco”. But the main purpose of my [...]
Talk by Jamie Oliver
When I drove home this evening, I heard about this video on the radio. It’s Jamie Oliver telling the Americans they have to cook more. I totally agree! That was one of the things I was surprised about, that lots of people don’t cook regularly :-O. My land lady used to call me ‘the lady [...]
One year ago
Today, it’s exactly one year ago I started my internship in San Francisco, at Novedge. This was the start of a period with lots of interesting, fun and amazing things, but also some difficult times, when I wanted to be with my family but couldn’t because of the 12.000 km between us. During the 6 [...]