What I've achieved so far

I recently sent an email to a friend summarising the stuff I've been up to since being in the Netherlands and thought it would be a nice idea to post that here, so here it goes (in a nutshell):

• Eaten far too much unhealthy but very tasty and interesting Dutch snacks especially with the lead up to Xmas (and they celebrate Sinterklaas on Dec 5th/6th)
• Got sent home early to celebrate Sinterklaas today
• Celebrated ThanksGiving with new English, American and French friends
• Tried the Italian spirit Genepy for the first time, quite nice!
• Celebrated an early Sinterklaas last week which involved trying lots of Sinterklaas related biscuits and reading Dutch poems that I couldn't understand or pronounce!
• Played table tennis twice
• Played badminton three times
• Played squash and even had a go at doubles (I'd heard of such a thing but thought only suicidal people would play)... foruntately not only did I manage not to kill anyone, I also remained injury free.
• Met a new friend from China.
• Bought tickets to Anwerp for when Rich visits this weekend!
• Sorted out a bank account, a train travel discount card and a mobile sim card.
• Went out for Friday drinks with work people
• Went around Leiden market on the last two Saturdays (lovely)
• Got chatted up by a random African guy who told me he wanted to be my lion (can't work out if he was just being friendly or was a potential rapist)
• Ohhh, and am off to Zurich with work in Feb!
• I also got published in Library connect, check me out on page 8 (http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcn/0903/lcn0903.pdf)