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Who am I?

 My name is Jacqueline, married to Paul, and mother of Marianne and Kevin. I live in the
  Netherlands, in the "Randstad".
  I am "on line" since August 1999. I didn't like my computer at first, in the beginning I just saw
  it as a necessary evil. But the longer I worked with my computer the more I started to
  like working with it. I have to admit that fear for the unknown was mostly the problem at first,
  fear that the system would crash on me (and oh my, that happened quite often!) and when it
  crashed it always was at the time I had neglected to back up the system.
  It has happened so many times that I was on the brink of throwing my computer out of the window
  and then jump right after it *grin*. Not that that would have had a great effect, I work on the ground
  floor *grin*...
  But I have learned a lot since the start and am still learning and eager to learn.

For my job at VisieFit I am really depending on my computer.
Not only for doing the administration and the accounting, but also for the making of presentations and education material. I am using the internet quite a lot, not in the least because more and more workorders come in through e-mail. Looking for relevant professional literature is nowadays very easy and cheap with the help of all the search engines on the internet, I like to consult the Nederlands Paramedisch Instituut for their easy access and if I want to order some professional books I like to use the online ordersheet of paramedical publisher Dekker.

My first "personal homepage" I just started hoping for the best (April, 2000). I have always enjoyed speaking foreign languages and solving puzzles. And the HTML actually is a "foreign" language and a puzzle at the same time. That personal homepage has grown a lot since the first one, but I know there is still a lot to improve. Web page building is both interesting and challenging. At this moment I am using Frontpage Express (yeah, yeah, I know it is for the lazy web page builders, and that it isn't the ultimate challenge to get forward), but at this moment I neither have the time nor the peace and quiet to jump in more HTML, frames and JavaScript. But I am sure that time will come. Eventually...

I am still fascinated by the Web, everyday I discover new things, interesting and nice people are just a mouse click away, with a mouse click you can go virtually go on holiday or shop untill you drop...Awsome!

Through the internet I was able to locate my halfsister Marianne in the United States of America and in May 2000, I went to New York City together with my sister-in-law Petra to finally meet Marianne and her son Chris.

In June 2001 I started to study again, this time the vocational training for Translator/Interpreter English. A 3-year course at the LOI, that (of course *grin*) I am doing via the Internet. In April 2002 I will have my first years exam (please, keep your fingers crossed for me!). A lot of support I am getting from my fellow students, through "our" website and mailing list at Yahoo Groep Vertaalstudenten Engels. Over time, I will keep you informed about my progress and I will try to put the vast amount of links (dictionaries, sites about language, etc.) that I have been collecting for the past few months on my links page (as soon as I have a bit more time). And in the mean time, of course you all can make an appeal on me to (for a huge fee of course *grin*) for translating your letters, reports, papers etc.

  Between my course, the internet, my homepage and ofcourse my job, there
  is still time left for my favourite hobby: holidays! Preferably of course in
  my favourite holiday country Spain. What it is that attracts me so
  much in Spain? The people, the beautiful nature, the sun and the
  beach, the great food....Almost everything! Click here and here
  to get more information about Spain. Another one of my hobbies is my
  camera, small and simple. Everywhere I go, it accompanies me.
  Paul can hardly get his hands on it, that's one of the reasons there
  aren't that many photographs of me on these pages. Besides that
  I am, and so is my daughter, fairly camera shy. The photograph
  you see here, Paul had to take from a hiding place between the
  palm trees from a rather large distance. Mother *and* daughter eventually got caught on a photograph....

This is a personal homepage, with the emphasis on personal. I know my homepage still isn't what I want it to be. If you have any remarks, please let me know. I am still eager to learn! In the mean time: thanks for dropping by and feel free to browse around.

Enjoy your surfing!

Jacqueline

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This page is last updated April 9, 2002.

Everything on this page, text, photographs and images, is, unless strictly mentioned otherwise, mine, wherever on this planet I might be