Irene
Though I was 'planned' for Christmas '72 I decided to wait just a little
longer and be born in '73 - because it's *way* cooler, of course :-) So
on January 4th I was born - I must be one of the seniors on this site...
That's the other way round from the rest of my life. I've always been the
youngest, everywhere - in school, at work etc. This only started changing
recently.
I was born in Den Haag, the Netherlands, and raised
in a town near Den Haag, named Wassenaar. My parents are both teachers,
and I am an only child so I cannot complain about any lack of attention
:-). I went to school in Wassenaar, primary & the Dutch equivalent
of high school: middelbare school. At the age of seventeen I went to the
university to study Italian. It is very unusual in the Netherlands to go
to the university before you're 18. That first year I stayed home with
my parents. In my second year at the University I started doing Art History
as well, which gradually became my major. In the same year I moved to Leiden
to live in a student house. Leiden is very near to Wassenaar, well, I guess
in the Netherlands everything is near to everything... A few weeks ago
I handed in my thesis - in the Netherlands we call it doctoraalscriptie,
which you can compare to a thesis needed for a Masters degree. So I hope
to finish my studies soon. My specialism is Internet applications in the
Humanities. In 1995 I started working for the same university on an Internet
project, and soon after I got a job at a Dutch company named Orion Telematica
as a Web engineer. I still work for Orion, but I sort-of moved to England
recently. Now I'm telecommuting part of my time, and travelling up and
down a lot between Bath, UK, where I live with my boyfriend Mark, and where
I work for Orion from a distance (but hey, this is Internet!), and Leiden
and Rotterdam, Netherlands, where I live and work at Orion. Very dynamic,
very flashy... very complicated, too. But it's a great experience to live
in another country for a while!
And yes, being a 70-s child I *do* remember the orange-and-brown
sofa's and the purple blanket my parents had on their bed and the green
wooden table and chair I had, and I still have those pictures of the superb
glasses they had, and I think I will even have some clothing left...
and most of all - I love peace. I guess that has something to do with those
peace-man-seventies...!
Irene
irene@orion.nl
**Web Engineer**
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