Ok, nearly a member for a year and it seemed I missed this topic so better late then never:


Hi,

My name is Stijn, I'm a 30yo guy living in Belgium (you know, one of those tiny little countries in Europe (and no Belgium is NOT the capital of Brussels, it's the other way ). I'm single (to busy to find a girlfriend ) I speak 3 languages and understand 3 others.

I'm an assistant fleetmanager in one of Belgian's largest companies involved in landscaping, green area maintenance and road construction and this for about 7 years now. Before I worked a couple of years for one of the 10 biggest heavy haul companies worldwide.

Besides being an assistant fleetmanager I'm also the president of a large non profit organisation (+10.000 members) for emergency personnel called "First-Response". We "operate" a online discussion board and an informational website. We also organise visits to emergency services, companies, hospitals, etc... in order to give our members the oppurtunity to learn something from other services. As a new feature we will start organizing trips to foreign countries where members can experience the life of the emergency services in other countries. Our first trip will be in a couple of months when we leave with 9 participants and 2 guides from our organisation to the fire department of Dallas,TX in the USA where we will stay for a week to learn about their ways of handling emergencies. After this week we will spend some time in Texas (1 week) to give the participants the change to learn about the country.

I'm also a firephotographer for some fire & police departments in my area. Also this is complete voluntary just like running the non profit organisation.

On rare occasions I'm also a press photographer as a replacement for a collegue I'm working with.

And if there is some spare time left I like to take pictures on concerts or motorsport events. Just as a hobby or as a service to people I know.

My hobby's are mostly my work, the non profit organisation, the firephotography and attending concerts. But also travelling... On the little free time left I like to jump on a plane an fly thousands of miles to spend some time on another continent. Mostly just for a couple of days... Far away from the daily stress... I don't need 2 weeks of holiday but I do like some occasional free time for only a couple of days. Just enough to reload the batteries.

Concerning FT: I'm was "lurking" this site for many years untill finally I decided to register last year. I like to participate once in a while but I'm still reading most of the time


Greetz,


Stijn (aka Bralo20)



PS Didn't took the time to read everything I've written, my appologies for any big mistakes towards grammar