Anniversary

If a person searched hard enough, I am sure he could find something to celebrate an anniversary of every day of the year. Today however is the one year anniversary of me working at the place where I work and I think that means something. ;) Especially regarding my past feelings about work in general and my expectations and so on. So here I go, happy anniversary to me! :P

It's scary how fast time goes, I can perfectly rememeber the day I entered the office and how clumsy I was with the first tasks appointed to me. Many people I met there have left by now and many new ones have come, let's wait and see where I will be in one year from now. :)

I hope to be in Finland again in about two months from now anyway. If I can arrange it it would be around the same time as when I was there last winter, which also still seems so recent to me. By then I should have started a new function at work as well, so it seems I have nice things to look forward to. ^^ Concerning free days I will have to wait untill Charlotte arrives back from Spain to spend a shopping-gossip-sauna day with and our english visitor. ;)

The time seemed also ripe to me to somewhat change the description of my blog. I am still trying to go to many places, but regarding the "where" as in "where is Kat in her professional life", that seems answered at least for now.

Sueña

I am definitely in favour of dreaming away, but Sueña is also the title of my Spanish course book which I bought last week. Yep, Kat has started evening classes! :P About exactly one year ago, I purchased a self learning course, but somehowI didn't get very far with in. I blame work, but I kind of think it's more the lack of discipline. So now I decided to enroll for a year course of Spanish, three hours every monday evening. I chose a school which offered a course that took place only once rather than twice a week and which was located very close to where I live. Otherwise I might loose some motivation during the dark, cold and especially wet winter nights that are coming. ;) So far so good, I could start in the second year after taking a test (full marks, jeje :P) and I do have the feeling this level is correct for me. The other students are quite ok as well, with the few lesser aspects older adult class mates included. Older people tend to want to show of what they know rather than taking thngs relaxed. ;)

I have two classes behind me now, almost no homework to do so I am still a happy student. ^^One year ago I wouldn't have thought a full three hoursof classes could be fun after having finished university. :P Maybe I am growing up as well... ;)

Time for parties?

The lousy summer Belgium has had is coming to an end and suddenly people want to have parties every week, preferably outside. :P Personally I think they should have started with this like a month ago (not earlier otherwise I would have missed them :P), but that obviously was not the case. Colleagues have planned get togethers in the coming two weeks, I just had a street party this weekend and last Thursday we had another goodbye party at te river side in Antwerp. A very windy spot, so I was pretty chilled in the middle of the night when going home.

I was the only with a camera and it showed once more how keen slightly drunk people are on getting their pictures taken, if possible with each and ever single person they know (or don't) at parties. The result was showing the next day at work, with an overy tired office and me spending the first part of the day showing the colleagues all the pictures and making fun of all the funny faces. The next parties will be on friday nights and I do agree that that will be a better idea. ;) So here are some pics of some people I spend most of my days with lately. :P

About two weeks ago I went to a very different party, this being the wedding of my friend Ellen with her girlfriend Griet. Not a very traditional wedding, but I thought it was absolutely beautiful and I was really happy to go. For the occasion Enrique had flown over from Spain so that of course even added to the fun. It was great being in Ghent again as well, enjoying the nice weather then still and running around as punctuality is not one of Enrique's best assets. ;) We made it all in time though and we spent a great evening at the wedding, meeting Ellen and Griet, eating good food and dancing untill all night. I was completely exhausted after the weekend, but it was definitely worth it. My pictures from the wedding are less great though, as my camera did not like the smoke machine during the party...