Introduction Secretary Sanne

Hey hello!

This week it’s my turn to introduce myself, so here we are! I will tell a bit about myself and my role as the right hand of the President, the Secretary.

I grew up in the duin- en bollenstreek. The area between Haarlem and Leiden, typified by the dunes and the bulb fields. Everyday I cycled by the Keukenhof, the biggest flower and bulb park of the Netherlands. In the spring you almost tripped over all the tourists visiting the park, but the smell of the hyacints, daffodils and tulips and the beautiful colourful fields made it all good. My parents and my sister also used to go to the dunes together. We would go for a walk, spotting deer or picknick. Or get some fresh air at the sea.

When I was about seven years old, there was an episode on tv about vaulting; gymnastics on a horse. This episode was filmed at the club in the neighbourhood, so I had to go and see what it was about. I really liked it, so I have done that for a couple years. First on a pony and later on a bigger horse, sometimes with tree on the horse at once or doing a backflip off the horse’s butt. I have even competed in the Dutch Championships.

Just like Guus, I have been in a pretty prominent high school. The Atheneum College Hageveld. A school in a building of an old seminary, with a large dome and woods and fields on its ground. It would have been a logical choice to then go study in Delft, Leiden or Amsterdam, but I was a bit done with the Randstad. So Enschede it was, and I don’t regret that at all.

In de kick-in I was a kiddo of year club Loos, in other words; all of the last board, two of the current pub board and other people that you have probably seen in the pub some time. At first I didn’t want to join a student’s association, but I had had so much fun during the kick-in that I kind of had to become a member. A year later I thought it might be awesome to become board of this association, and now here we are. In the office, writing a piece for the newsmail. Monday I will be picking up the mail from our mailbox and then in the afternoon I will be writing the minutes of our board meeting. Furthermore, I will make sure the minutes of the GMA will be worked out and that all the emails will end up with at the right board members.

But luckily board is not just an office job, every Tuesday and Thursday having drinks or making a party are also part of the job! So I will probably see you around in the pub some time, but do come around to see us at the office too.