Hagueover

Hagueover or Hague-Over and not Hangover, a new term coined by one of my batchmate from Philippines, explaining in one word how much we miss the awfully windy yet lovely city, we called  home for 15 and half months.  The city I learned to love...now that ISS and Hague is over I have to admit that I do miss the city but  what I miss most about the city now when I look back is difficult to put in few words or in just one post.

I still remember the first day in Hague, it was bright, sunny and a perfect day, 'Perfect Day' was not what we thought back then, only now I can say, it was indeed a perfect day. When the Admin person, told us to go out and enjoy the sun, our reply was "Oh! we come from a HOTTTT country so we do not appreciate the sun so much" , only to realise that we would regret what we said the very next day. Hague is awfully windy and I am not joking, the wind can sometimes blow you away like literally, but despite all the wind and rains, Hague is a lovely city to live. It's weird when I think, why I never took pictures of Hague when I have over 1000 pictures in Paris, and another 1000 pictures in Rome alone. I never took any pictures standing in-front of the   Nordeinde Palace or even the famous Peace Palace, both located 5 mins walking from Dorus.

Missing Hague, friends, ISS and the community we build!

Travel Plans November

To begin with we are going to Amsterdam, followed by Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, maybe Barcelona, Brugge, Antwerp and if we get cheap tickets maybe Cologne also. Enough reasons for me to finish my RP before 9th. 

ARD Dinner

We had our last dinner as the 1st and last batch of ARD as a group at our convener's place (  @ the very famous and the super star academician  SBJ's (Jun's) place), Jun's new house is really good, with front and back side garden, he has been growing potato's in the Garden, Agrarian Studies Professor but farmer at heart :). The dinner was awesome, a combined effort  by all of us, I made Butter Chicken and veg pakoda's, TK made Chappatis and this guy can make chappatis better than all the Indian's in our batch. Jun cooked this really tasty rice with black pepper, olive and grated lime cover,  which I plan to replicate very soon and also chicken, AC made the best Tiramisu for dessert, the best I ever had and the best part about the Tiramisu was the decoration, she wrote ARD with blue berries on top....super awesome. MJR got a lot of appetizers, MA ( Venezuelan but the wannabe Nicaraguan hahaha) bought yummy Macaroons form France and the new Phd guy B made some greek salad, which was also quite yumm. We all had a great time but sure missed our Pinky panda, Hilhil and Prof Vince. At the end of the day I realized what a great year I have spent in ISS with my classmates from all over the world, I am looking forward to going back home and getting back to work but I sure will miss the group a lot.

AC's yummy Tiramisu.....the best I ever had