Hi Thomas

As I am writing this letter, I was thinking what language should I use to properly convey the thoughts on cultural differences, travel and travail, and my accidents that I did’t tell.

I decided to go for English, my language for work to demonstrate confidence.

I guess you are already home. So I can supposedly tell my stories without conseqsuences.

I believe in some Buddism thoughts just to explain to myself why things happened to me.

When I was 24 at graduate school, I was raped by a French classmate. And something even more intense took place in Switzerland. I was sexually harrassed by a colleague, and some girls I taught at physics tutorial too. So I decided to go to court against my supervisor. It was brutal, and I always felt insecure there.

As for ASML, I was pissed off that interviewees in neighboring countries didn’t get reimbursed for travel, so I wrote to a C-level person transmitted via my supervisor. And then I was forever blacklisted by HR. I found it funny though.

And you are perhaps one of the impressive guys I met that didn’t make me feel afraid. For me this is quite something, because I always had to fight, to argue, to strive for rights for a normal life.

This is the end of my stories, and my great thank you for you. Intense, made by my experiences.