Busy & Good!

Whoops, somehow I missed October! And, most of September... how could that be? Oh, yes, perhaps that was the new job. I am happy to report that it is going very, very well. While my overall work is at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), I work on two different projects. I work 2.5 days per week running Share-Net, the network of Dutch NGOs working on sexual health and HIV (www.share-net.nl).


I work the other 1.5 days on the platform for Health Insurance for the Poor, HIP. We're talking really poor here, like the poorest populations in Bangladesh, Ghana, and Uganda. So basically, if you want me to work for you - you've got to be Dutch and a network or platform.

Now, if you're doing your math correctly, you'll realize that this only adds up to 4 days. Brilliant! Four days at work and three days off is *really* a good way to live. I would highly recommend it to everyone.

So, what else have I been up to?

At the beginning of October I went to Lyon for a conference as part of my Share-Net job. One night the conference organized a dinner at Lyon's Hotel de Ville... and boy, it was fancy! Here's me, in the slightly ornate room:
I've also been doing a bit more getting out into the countryside. Albert and I realized that we now live less than a half-hour's cycle from a really pretty park (and a generally rural area), so we will go there more often. But, sometimes it does get dangerous... like the time we met a cow smack in the middle of the bike path:

We're having other good adventures too... Germany last weekend, a visit to the pig farm where our bacon came from, and a trip to a big forest near here next weekend for my birthday. I'll try to get some more pictures up soon...