' What doesn't kill me makes me stronger'
This sentence represents almost everything I stand for. This may also be the reason why I decided, in 2010, to tattoo this on my back and I have to say that believing in this made my life a lot easier, especially when it comes to decision making.
Who am I?
I was born, quite some time ago, on the 5th of February in a house underneath a mil in a city called Hulst in The Netherlands. My parents decided to call me Kim Ine Gesina. However, most of the people call me Kimi these days. I fell in love with playing tennis when I was about five and continued doing this till the age of sixteen. I have always been very sportive and this may have been the reason why I made the decision to work as a snowboard instructor in Austria at the age of nineteen.
After one season, love brought be back to Austria. I wasn't ready for any kind of study and wanted to work for a bit before deciding what I wanted to do with my life. I learned a lot by instructing children and adults although, deep inside I knew I had to study something at one point. Therefore, by researching the internet, I came across this awesome Innovation & Management in Tourism study at the University of Applied Science in Salzburg. I got accepted and graduated in July 2011.
As love goes by sometimes, this also happened to me and this made me realises I hadn't seen enough of this world yet. As I wrote in my first post about New Zealand I made up my mind to travel to this country on, yet another, lonely night on my couch in Rohrmoos, Austria. I called my parents in Holland, arranged an internship and flew to New Zealand a couple of months later. To make a long story short, I fell in love with it...and in it :)
I discovered my interest for social media and researching this interesting marketing tool a couple of years ago. Writing blogs, FB, how these technologies can be used within our society and all the rest that is going along with it. Along the road to discovery what I really wanted I found out my talent for teaching and writing and my interest in academic work. At the moment I study my MA, I work at the tourism research department of the FH Salzburg, work as a Ghostwriter where I consult and supervise students with their thesis, university assignments and dissertations and am in several voluntary groups to defend the interests of students. I have a passion for research and writing and really enjoy helping young people to be successful at university!
