Here are 46 stories that I should definitely tell my daughter at one point.

Ezra Eeman
2 min readSep 4, 2022

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1. ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธaway from home at 10.

2. Crashing my dadโ€™s ๐Ÿš— โ€” twice.

3. Walking the catwalk in Paris โœจ.

4. Showing my ๐Ÿ“ฝ๏ธ on a rooftop festival in New York.

5. Smuggling a camera crew through the Sinai ๐Ÿœ๏ธ.

6. Landing with a private ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ in the deep jungle of Congo.

7. Crossing ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ from North to South in search for silence.

8. Acting and ๐Ÿ•บ on stage in Wupperthal.

9. Deciding to move with the family to ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ.

10. Making a ๐ŸŸ talk for Wim Vandekeybus.

11. Celebrating Obamaโ€™s second term ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ on Times Squares.

12. Living the black-out ๐ŸŒƒ after Hurricane Sandy in Brooklyn.

13. Retrieving hostages in ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท.

14. ๐ŸŽ‰ with royalty in a skyscraper in Hong-Kong.

15. Nosediving with the French ๐Ÿช–into Afghanistan.

16. Failing my first year of secondary ๐Ÿซ.

17. Making a โ€˜realโ€™ newspaper ๐Ÿ‘ with Delvaux.

18. ๐Ÿช‚ of an airplane from 10000 feet.

19. Entering the forbidden โ˜ข๏ธ zone of Fukushima

20. Splitting my head ๐Ÿค• open on a window tablet.

21. Being helictopered away by the ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ณ out of Libanon.

22. Hosting a ๐Ÿ—’๏ธ in the Council Room of BBCโ€™s Broadcasting House.

23. Turning my ๐Ÿš— upside down and sliding through the streets.

24. Wearing a wire to catch child-traffickers on ๐Ÿ“ผ.

25. Experiencing the first smile of my daughter ๐Ÿ‘ง.

26. Entering the ๐Ÿ‘ฒForbidden City.

27. Launching a ๐ŸŽต festival with friends to honor the best mate we ever had.

28. Escaping from boarding ๐Ÿซ at night.

29. Kissing ๐Ÿ’‹ a girl for the very first time.

30. ๐Ÿ•บ for nights on end at summer festivals.

31. Having a traditional ๐Ÿ‘˜ Japanese wedding.

32. Reporting my ๐Ÿš— as stolen only to find it back a month later.

33. Sleeping through a desert storm ๐ŸŒฌ๏ธ in the Western Sahara.

34. Seeing Jeff Buckely and Kurt Corbain live ๐ŸŽค.

35. Being rescued from an ๐Ÿ๏ธ by the Philippine Navy.

36. Singing songs at the camp ๐Ÿ”ฅ with the youth movement for almost 20 years.

37. Finding the cutest ๐Ÿ• ever in England.

38. Visiting Mountainview, Palo Alto & Menlo Park๐Ÿ“ฑ.

39. Throwing a wild gipsy wedding ๐ŸŽ‰ at the Vaudeville.

40. Filling my bath with ๐Ÿพ bottles.

41. Standing at the ๐ŸงŠ edge of the North Pole.

42. Reporting on murder trials ๐Ÿ”ช for national TV.

43. Entering the Herman Teirlinck ๐ŸŽญ school.

44. Renting the entire parking building of the Inno to make a student ๐ŸŽฅ (and being failed for it).

45. Having a private moment ๐Ÿ”’ in the Sistine Chapel.

46. Trying to be a good dadโ€ฆgreatest adventure ever!๐Ÿซถ

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Ezra Eeman
Ezra Eeman

Written by Ezra Eeman

EBU Head of Digital, Transformation, and Platforms.

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