March 2, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
Whenever I used to post about something that had occurred in the office, I would put 'Amstelveen' at the top of the post, but of course that is no longer the case since our company moved to the Zuidas financial district of Amsterdam. So, mostly it now says 'Amsterdam' - also when it is about something at work. Such as today.
Last week, my Mexican colleague Ana had a very special birthday. Of course it would be impolite to ask for a lady's age, and it would be downright rude to publish it on the Interweb, but let's just say that twenty years ago, Ana moved to the Netherlands when she was... well... let's just say, barely an adult. There. That's diplomatically put.
She spent the past two weeks back in Mexico, celebrating her birthday with family and fiends in Cuernavaca, in the state of Morelos, a two hour drive south of Mexico City, and she also spent a week in a luxurious hotel in Acapulco. She'll be back on Monday, and to celebrate her return - and her birthday - after work today, I printed a poster of her (from a photo I took of her two years ago) and taped it to the windows. I should probably have turned it around so that the whole of Amstelveen could have seen Ana staring at them from the 26th floor, but this way it was just looking into the office. It looked quite nice actually and I hope Ana will appreciate it! After all, it's not every day that you turn 50!... Whoops...
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