As the office director was giving his speech, summarizing my time in this office , I had an opportunity to reflect on my stay here. All in all, I had a great time here, thanks mostly to the people I had the pleasure of working with. Everybody was very friendly, welcoming and went out of their way to help me. I consider myself lucky, that during my entire work life so far, I was always blessed with colleagues like that - sure, there may have been one or two scrooges among them, but the vast majority was friendly, great people who made working with them a real joy.
This makes this move a little bittersweet - on the one hand, I am excited to go to Australia and take on new challenges (professionally and personally) in a faraway land, on the other hand, I have to say goodbye to a bunch of very nice people, some of which I will really miss....but I guess that is inevitable.
For those of you who don't know what they are looking at: This is one of the goodbye-presents my colleagues gave me: A beautiful Minnesota-blanket (even though it would be a crime to use it as a blanket) with iconic images of Minnesotan life/history worked in. In case you were wondering why you can't see the top: I had to drape it over my TV to photograph it, since there is no way that I put two nails into a wall two days before I move out of this apartment....sue me ;-)
waiting impatiently for updates from the other end... ;-)
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