This summer I had a phone interview with a journalist from a UAE newspaper. It was all very awkward because I hate being in the spotlights, even if it is over the phone. Anyway, this interview resulted in a small article where they left the most interesting part out and spelled my name wrong. Then I forgot about it untill I cleaned up my laptop and came across the scan, so here it is.
1. Arrival in the Dubai (United Arab Emirates). This city is insane. It consists for approximately 80% of highways in a big, entangled mess. An 8-lane highway in the middle of the city. Seriously? 2. There are a lot of really expensive cars that drive in really dangerous ways. Eek. 3. The border crossing into Oman (Musandam) is the easiest border ever. They don’t even stamp your passport! Which is probably a good thing, since mine is…
Rule no. 1 for bloggers is that you should never ever apologize for it being so quiet here and not posting for a while. So I won’t. (But I’m sorry, really). Rule no. 2 for bloggers seems to be that, at the end of the year, you write a post to review one thing or another. So let’s join and review the past year. The Good… Does it make me sound like…
Today I felt like doing a little exercise. The options here are limited: the choice is between running up and down hills while dodging monkeys, motorbikes and burning piles of rubbish or going for a swim. Needless to say, I chose the latter. (I ran for a while but since I’m from a lovely flat country called The Netherlands running uphill is NOT for me and my knees started to complain…) I usually…
In this series I get to brag a little about my awesome life (well…), so if you get jealous, better don’t read on. I love my job because I get to work in awesome, gorgeous, stunning, inspiring places like this. View from the office: Ok, to be honest, this was my last job in Malaysia, but still. I mean, hello. Beats the average cubicle / staring out of a window unto a…
“Why don’t you get a real job?” was what a friend of my parents asked. He was not the first to ask, and I’m sure many dive professionals have encountered this question at least once. I like to assume that questions like this are asked with the best intentions or maybe just come from ignorance about what the job actually entails. In this (and many other) particular case though, it felt like judgment and…
There are about 358.342.896 reasons I love my job, and one of them is that I get to see this sometimes: There were around eight dolphins playing around our dive boat for a little while. Awesome. Eight is not so many because, allegedly, you get big pods of hundreds of them sometimes, but they were so close! Tell me, what makes your job so awesome that your heart almost jumps out of your chest from excitement?