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Looking back to the last 2.5 years with Asia house Frankfurt, the journey has been a great and rewarding experience!

I have had the pleasure to work with many of you and gain many of you as friends,
A big THANK YOU for making the last 3 years with the Firm a very special time for me!

 

October, 2005 Training in Düsseldorf - Communication and IT workshop

November 2005 BCR training in Kitzbühl, Austria

 

December 2005 Christmas party & Asia house conference in Kitzbühl, Austria

Asia house conference at Christmas/ New year, once again back in Kitzbühl, it is never too often to come back, especially in winter...
Skiing, party and Karaokay... All have made me feel at home in this far little European village

 

 

Jan. 2006 Chinese new year party at Asia house, Frankfurt

"We always have an excuse to celebrate", as Sönke said, we had our Chinese lunar new year party at Asia house...

 

 

Feb. 2006 Carnival party at McKinsey Cologne Office

Carnival in Cologne! Many say "The best Carnival you can get in Germany!"

March - July 2006, Study in Shanghai, China & Value's day in Huangzhou

 

Shanghai

Hangzhou

 

September, 2006 Communication training in Stockholm, Sweden

Training in Stockholm has given me an opportunity to see this beautiful city in Northern Europe and meet colleagues from different offices...

Sept 2006 McKinsey German office Summer Festival in Wörlitz

Once in two years, German office has a summer festival, it is a huge exciting event, which you really should not miss...

 

Oct. 2006 Asia house conference in Weimar, Germany

Another year at Asia house conference, everyone flew in from all over the world to gather together...

 

Sept-Feb. 2006 project in London office

 

 

 

March - Oct. 2007, Projects in Brussels & Helsinki, weekends in Frankfurt

After working around the world, for the first time, I started to appreciate Frankfurt as my home base, the spring and summer in Frankfurt is beautiful.
Actually there are a lot to do still in Frankfurt on weekends:

 

 

Party at Club 101

May 2007, BCR reunion in Kitzbühl, Austria

Meeting BCR group colleagues to share experiences in the past year... We started at the same point, while everyone has his own McK
experience... This time I learnt Kitzbühl has more than winter to offer...

May, 2007 McKinsey Frankfurt office retreat, Lisbon, Portugal

 

 

June 2007, JP Mogan Race, Frankfurt, Germany

Once a year, there is the famous JP Morgan race, I flew back all the way from Helsinki to run for FRA/Asia house that day

 

June, 2007 McKinsey Value's day in Frankfurt

Sönke and Jochen cooked and served the breakfast for the whole Asia house! :-)

I was lucky to win the 1st price for photo shooting on the Value's day Frankfurt, the photo was used at German intranet for the value's day.

The winning price is a great meal at Nizza

Oct. 2007 Helsinki, Finland

There is fun time at the study, we had the sport competition with client team analysts...

 

Sept. 2007 McKinsey Music festival, Kitzbühl, Austria

 

 

 

 

Oct 2007, Asia house retreat in Strasbourg, France

Another year, another retreat, this time we went to Strasbourg, Canoeing in sunshine and gala dinner in the evening...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oct. 2007 L2 training on PSM in Barcelona, Spain

In October, I joined the PSM L2 training in Barcelona, I have been always joining PSM knowledge days to develop deeper function knowledge on Purchasing, at L2 I have learned a lot and met a lot of wonderful colleagues at the practice...

 

 

Nov.-Dec 2007, Project in Johannesburg, South Africa

One project in South Africa! A dream land...

 

Feb. 2008 Chinese new year party at Asia house Frankfurt

2008 Chinese new year party at Asia house!

 

 

 

March 13, 2008 Asia house Farewell & Welcome party
- Farewell Grace Hu and Lingling Cao to Shanghai office

 

March 15, 2008 Lingling's farewell party in Frankfurt

Colleagues and friends from all over Europe came to Frankfurt for my farewell party with short notice, thank you all for the great time we have shared.
See you soon again!

Good luck, Asia house new comers! Asia house Frankfurt has a lot to offer, enjoy the opportunity, because it is great!

 

Please drop me a line if you have comments or just want to say Hi! :-)