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My name is Klara De Sitter, I live near Antwerp
in Belgium. I was born on the 27th of
February 1982. July the 4th 2004 I
got my university degree in biology
(Zoology-Ecology) at the Catholic University of Leuven.
The past year I wrote my theses
in ecotoxicology. I researched the effect of
toxical agents on flagellation and growth of Naegleria gruberi. Friday the 25th
of June I defended my work, and the grades I got showed respect for a year of
hard work. I also got an offer to try for a PhD-scholarship, but didn't take it.
I was a hard decision to make, but I think I made the right one. It just isn't
me! I looked for months for a job in Biology. I finished 2nd on a couple of
interviews, but 2nd plae brings you nowhere. In the meantime I volunteered at
the Provincial Institute for Environmental Education to stay busy and get a bit
more experienced. Recently I found a job, it's not in my field of study, but I
need to do something and this is something I want to try out. I'm a junior
helpdesk agent for EDS Mechelen. I'm send to this company by ES@S, an
outsourcing company. Right now I'm being educated in informatics at EDS, and in
two weeks I should start answering the phone. I'm hired to answer the phone in
the German language at the helpdesk for Solvay. But I will be answering
phonecalls in English, Dutch and possibly French. Let's hope this last language
won't come to me very often! This job will give me the opportunity to make my
languages better and will ginve me a lot of experience in the field of IT. Maybe
this will help me to realise my dream later on!
- What I do in my spare time?
A lot of my spare time I put into Volleyball. I'm a
competitive volleyball-player. I play in two different teams, on Friday evenings
I am the benjamin of the VKS-team Wapper. With this team we play in the first
league. The season 2004-2005 was a very good season for us, since we finished
5th! On Saturdays, that's a different story. I played for Volley Lint the past
14 years. This year a lot of problems occured and I decided to quite. I wanted
to take a year of, to see what I really wanted. Then Lier called me with the
question if I wanted to play for them, so I want to train there once and chances
are good I will play for this team.
For 7 years I trained young volleyball players for
Volley Lint. On Saturday morning, when most of the people stay in
bed a bit longer, I got up early. Because of all the troubles that happened last
year, I won't train them anymore. I liked it, and I thought of staying to train
them, but that way I will never make a point to the club that I don't agree with
what they're doing, so I stopped training. I liked it, but I don't think I will
miss it very much, since this means I get to stay in bed longer on Saturdays or
I can use Saturday mornings to go climbing.
Now it looks like volleyball is the only thing I keep
myself busy with. But that's not true
at all, I also like to hang out with
friends and think it is important to make time for them.
From now on it will get
a lot more difficult to meet often, since we all went into different
directions.
But I truly hope we'll keep in contact.
Beside volleyball and friends I go indoor climbing
wit my brother-in-law once a week. On Monday evenings you can find me in the NRG
Health centre in Lier. For the moment I'm climbing level 4+ and 5-, this last
level not always succesfully. But I like it a lot and I want to do it more than
just once a week. For the last time we've been climbing twice a week and I
really notice the difference.
With what I wrote above it looks like volleyball is my
passion. Maybe it was at one time, but right now it hasn't been anymore for a
while.
When you read the welcome word at the beginning, you'll
understand when I tell you that
the MOUNTAINS are my passion. To bad where I
live there aren't any... But Mohammed already knew that if the mountains
wouldn't come to him, he would have to go to the mountains. I just love the
mountains, especially the place I
wrote about earlier. I love going there during vacation
time, and I'm always
pretty "homesick" when I get back. Sounds pretty funny doesn't it?
Being homesick for a place that isn't really your home? But I certainly hope
I'll be able
to make it my home some day...
Why do I love those mountains so much? Well, it just
impresses me a lot. The space you've got there, the nature around of you, the
quietness, ... I can keep summing things up for days, but I don't want to bore you with
that. Let's just say that I feel good when I'm there, I feel much better then
here in stressy Belgium. I need these places to escape to, I need that
quietness. I love it when you're high up and there aren't many people there... I
love the feeling you get when you're walking over permanent ice and snow, when
almost as far as you can look, nobody is there except the persons you're with.
Like the feelings I had at the 'Dach Gottes' which I'll write about in another
section of this homepage. If you're stressed out, just go there and let it all
flow, you can't be stressed up there... it's impossible! And I am a very stressful
person, so ...
Right now I'm thinking about maybe following a course
about the basics of rock and ice. The basic techniques, the ways to use ropes,
pickaxe etc. Not that I want to be a mountain guide or something, I don't think I can do
that. I don't think I could handle the responsibility for other people you've got up there. I've
got a lot of respect for the people who do this kind of things, and I wished I
could, but I just don't think I'm made for it. But I would like to learn the
basics of it... Maybe there is a specific reason why you don't see many women as
mountain guides, or mountain rescue people... Anyway I met some mountain guides,
I went up a couple of times with them and I fully respect what they are doing, I
thank them for what they do also, 'cause it gives people like me a chance to go
to places where they would never be able to go on their own. Give them a chance to
experience the feeling to be on top of a mountain. So when they read this
... THANKS a lot, I think you guys are great!
What I do want to do, is learn some more about alpine
nature. Learn how to recognise all the plants and animals, some more about
mountain geology and geography,... After I know all that I would like to become
some sort of nature guide, take people on easier mountain tours and introduce
them to the beauty of nature. Another one of those dreams is to work with
children of all ages, and get them interested in biology, in ecology to be more
specific. But not by standing in front of a classroom, I don't want that. But by
organising outdoor weeks. Let them do some experiments based on their age. Teach
them something about conservation of biodiversity, how they can help to protect
nature, show them there is something behind the growth of different plant. Why
are certain organisms found there and nowhere else? Wouldn't that be something?
My name is Klara De Sitter, I live near Antwerp
in Belgium. I was born on the 27th of
February 1982. July the 4th 2004 I
got my university degree in biology
(Zoology-Ecology) at the Catholic University of Leuven.
The past year I wrote my theses
in ecotoxicology. I researched the effect of
toxical agents on flagellation and growth of Naegleria gruberi. Friday the 25th
of June I defended my work, and the grades I got showed respect for a year of
hard work. I also got an offer to try for a PhD-scholarship, but didn't take it.
I was a hard decision to make, but I think I made the right one. It just isn't
me! I looked for months for a job in Biology. I finished 2nd on a couple of
interviews, but 2nd plae brings you nowhere. In the meantime I volunteered at
the Provincial Institute for Environmental Education to stay busy and get a bit
more experienced. Recently I found a job, it's not in my field of study, but I
need to do something and this is something I want to try out. I'm a junior
helpdesk agent for EDS Mechelen. I'm send to this company by ES@S, an
outsourcing company. Right now I'm being educated in informatics at EDS, and in
two weeks I should start answering the phone. I'm hired to answer the phone in
the German language at the helpdesk for Solvay. But I will be answering
phonecalls in English, Dutch and possibly French. Let's hope this last language
won't come to me very often! This job will give me the opportunity to make my
languages better and will ginve me a lot of experience in the field of IT. Maybe
this will help me to realise my dream later on!
