Originally from Colorado and Atlanta in the US, Tonya Stoneman has lived in Metz for ten years and worked at Nordea Asset Management for the past five and a half years. (She previously was a freelance contributor to Delano.) Here is some of what Delano saw when it visited her workspace earlier this month.
Mouse
Stoneman purchased this wireless mouse in the US, while visiting her sons, who both attend Oberlin College, in Ohio. She went into a chain store to buy a burner mobile phone to use during the visit and some last minute Christmas gifts, when she spotted the mouse. “I like the cartoon on it,” she said. “It livens up the [work]space a bit.”
Cards from husband
These greeting cards are from her husband, Tim. “He sends cards for every occasion,” she said. “I have a pile at home on my desk and I can’t throw them away.” All of the cards he gives her “play music or light up or pop out... they’re very interactive.”
Change of shoes
Stoneman usually keeps “a couple of pairs” of work shoes at the office. Photo: Matic Zorman
Stoneman takes the train into Luxembourg City, and usually “wears more practical shoes” during the commute and then “changes to pumps when I get to work.”
Coffee thermos and water bottle
Thermos on left, water bottle on right. She has her morning coffee on the train to work. Photo: Matic Zorman
She makes coffee at home and takes it on the train. Stoneman is “used to big American coffees” but usually heads out for work before Starbucks is open.
Chocolate kisses and Scandinavian liquorice
She has an impressive collection of sweet stuff at her desk. There was a bag of Hershey’s Kisses, a staple American treat. A colleague brought back the chocolates from a recent visit to New York.
Then there was the stock of Danish and Swedish liquorice, bought from Scanshop across the street. “This is a huge thing with the team.” Colleagues pop over to the shop together and “buy tonnes” of liquorice “almost every day.” It is, Stoneman stated, “the best liquorice ever.”