It’s a new dawn

“It’s a new dawn,
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me
And I’m feeling good”

A song written by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse in 1965, for the musical The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd. It became famous sung by Nina Simone, and lately by Michael Bublé. And it feels like this song sings about my, and that I honour my name, René

Monday 17th October 2011
On Monday I had a lunch date with Shalmain, finally, since we tried to meet up already for months. First we planned to eat in the street Witte de With, where I saw a nice sticker “Do Nuts”, since she was too late, I had to go to the real center at the coolsingel. We at at the Tosti House, which was pretty ok. For the rest nothing much to tell

Tuesday 18th October 2011
In the morning we had a departmental meeting about the employee satisfaction survey and the future of the department, since in the upcoming 9 months there will change a lot. It was a weird day, a nice emotional rollercoaster. Late in the evening Werner paid me a visit for a talk and also to help me with Indesign and to finally be able to change the background on my netbook.

Wednesday 19th October 2011
About Wednesday, there is nothing much to tell, I took for the first time my laptop with me to work to make the newsletter follow up about the Social Affairs Forum and Cities for Active Inclusion seminar. I had a nice lunch date with Liese in Picknick, which is a nice place. I had a cool tosti as you can see from the photo. That evening I had an evening for my own, I just watched tv and played a bit on my laptop.

Thursday 20st October
For the second time I took my laptop with me to work, to work with Indesign on the newsletter. I made progress and made a nice draft. I went early to home, since it was possible that Werner would be there at 6 at my house… but off course that’s just a dream… while I was walking home in fast pace, I received an sms that it could become after 7, then I texted back, that’s not good, that he should be earlier, and he tried to be between 6 thirty and 7. Now I could walk a bit slower, and do my shopping for dinner more relaxed. I made macaroni for us. Naturally he was late, even after 7. So after dinner time, there was not much time left to see how his administration is working, since I will try to make a better and easier one for him. Why wasn’t there enough time, since Werner, Mark and I went to the movie 3 Musketeers It was a nice feel good movie.

Friday 21st October
It became a quite Friday, I finished the newsletter of the Social Affairs Forum & Cities for Active Inclusion, I left as last person at 5 my department, you could really see that it was a Friday, and even a Friday in a children vacation it was so serene I went to my parents for dinner. As usual the dinner was “Rode Kool” my favorite dish. My father was still home, since his back is hurting, and he had enough time to think about annoying questions for me, like my bike and my sleeping room When I got home, I rested on the couch and had a quiet evening.

Saturday 22nd October 2011
I had planned a weekend with just free time, and wanted to stay in bed after noon, but already the first day it didn’t went well. I was again so early awake that after 1,5 hours of seeing each corner in my bed, I got out at 10.30 in the morning. I started with some pc time, and in the afternoon I did some cleaning in my bed room, finally I can see again some desk, it’s not full with stuff anymore Around 4 my best friend, Werner came to help me with my bike. Both my tires were flat, he could easily remove my front tire, and we took that one to the gasstation to fill it with air. For dinner we did it easy, we ate patat, after the dinner Werner went to work. In the evening I got an invitation to visit my friend Suuz, and it became a long night of talking, I took the rosé I received from Marcus in Malta with me and the Polish vodka, I received from Ági whom stayed for 3 nights at my place earlier. The rosé was very tasteful, and I made a nice start with the vodka, but there is more then enough for the next time

Sunday 23rd October, I woke up at 6 in the evening, I had planned to fixed my back tire of my bike, but it was already to late. After a short while of awakening, I went to Turkish kebab place to eat some Turkish Kebab, this is something I used to do on a Sunday, but it was already a while ago since I did this. When I was finished, I met up with Mark to go to the movies. We went to Abduction, I didn’t had high expectations of that movie, and after all I have to say it wasn’t a bad movie.