he's nearing the brink but he thinks first the parallel universe perhaps could be the perfect scene.

A minor photo update of the year now past, whilst I gather my thoughts and self for the report of more recent times.

UWC-NL jaargroep 2009-2011 in the early days

Paud orientation (the first week in)

Second Years Show, theme: flamboyant tellytubby zombies (hence the laundry baskets)

First Exeat (long weekend) in Bombay, outside the Taj hotel

An inspired Art HL double block with Zuzana and some paint (masks painted by Zuzana and I, photography by Marius)

Travel week in Rajasthan, in March

A tea party in my courtyard for a belated birthday celebration

Leh, Ladakh, on a postgrad journey to the cold North

let's consider a change of scenery, it's getting boring by the sea

This is Ladakh, a region of Jammu-Kashmir, situated up in the Himalayas. I traveled up there after graduation before flying back over here. It was stunning.

To get up to the northern-most state of India, we got a jeep, plane, train, bus and then another jeep. It took us quite a couple of hours, with the inevitable adventures and tribulations that come along with traveling in India as teenagers. It was however most definitely worth it.

I will soon tell the tales of our travels, however for the time being, these are the most interesting things I've done post-India:

i. sat on the beach outside a Bon Jovi concert with friends I hadn't seen in six months, and then we saw a, unexpected, better live performer in a small pub in town afterwards.

ii. met the Prince of the Netherlands and my first years, who got to wear the orange polos and sing the cheesy sponsor-thanking songs on stage this year.

iii. started to volunteer for a charity working with refugees in the Hague, for which I met a bunch of lovely mothers and children displaced in the Netherlands.

iv. unpacked and slept. a lot.

As for the near future, I'm off to see Salman Rushdie talking about peace now, and have a UWC barbeque tomorrow. Next week equals grandparents, dropping by Utrecht and most probably more sleeping and listening to a lot of music.

I'll talk about India more, soon!