Guus Bosman

Today at work I played with an iPad for the first time.

It's indeed a great product but it's not for me, I think.

Today I received a package with a paper that I wrote 16 years ago, in high school.

The package didn't contain a note, nor did it have the name of the sender. I thought that perhaps Ettie or my parents had sent it, but I couldn't understand why. Thirty minutes later, when I took a picture for this article, it dawned on me that Niels had asked me for my address recently.

A great surprise! It was fun to read the paper. Papers like this motivated me to learn to use a computer. Teachers would tell me that my handwriting was so awful that it was hard to read. I believe this was the first document I created with Microsoft Word, after using WordPerfect for years. The title page was made in Microsoft Publisher.

I was 15 years old when I wrote it and remember the process (and the stress) quite well. Good times!

I'm listening to a French radio station at work, and I heard a nice pop song that I could study for pronunciation and vocabulary.

The female singer has a very nice voice, and I like her accent. Turns out that she was born in Ilpendam, the Netherlands, 25 miles from where I grew up. The song is called le chemin, performed by Kyo and Sita.

She may not be the greatest native speaker to imitate, but it's a lovely song nevertheless.