churchillplein 6, the hague

I started working at the Churchillplein in The Hague last week.

Churchillplein 6 is home to the International Baccalaureate, the world’s leading non-profit educational organization, motivated by a mission to improve the world through education.

It is next to the World Forum, where the Nuclear Security Summit will be hosted on March 24-25 2014.

Other neighbours include Europol, the EU’s law enforcement agency, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Such neighbours might inhibit an easy flow of discourse and wit in many, but I learned today that my department had 500,000 words translated in 2013 – and, I’d guess, at least the same again was left untranslated. That’s the equivalent of twelve and half novels…

My word-count productivity, in short (or rather, not), looks set to rise vertiginously.