This year on my two-year anniversary of starting work, I was stuck inside, which is nothing unusual, especially on a nice sunny day. The only difference this year was that I was actually in an exam centre with about twenty other people.
We were sitting the NT2 Staatsexamen, which is the local equivalent of the IELTS [...]
Entries from June 2009
June 21, 2009
Diploma
June 15, 2009
Sunday’s news
Sunday for me typically involves heading to a cafe for some eggs and toast and hot chocolate and flicking through the Sunday papers, usually the tabloids as they are smaller and easier to handle. There are several problems with that in the Netherlands: a) eggs on toast is not so popular; b) most cafes aren’t [...]
June 7, 2009
Pinkpop revisited
After last year’s rejigging of the schedule (i.e., so that the good bands were spread across the three days instead of all being on Monday, which could be an explanation for why the 3-day tickets sold out within a week), which meant that none of my colleagues could decide which day to go and in [...]
