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Overview

  • 21 references 19 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, German; learning French, Indonesian, Italian, Spanish
  • 58, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Violinist, world music, jazz and rock, and baroque
  • Conservatory
  • From Willemstad, Curaçao
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About Me

I like to play violin in all kinds of circumstances. Lately I played a Turkish song for a marriage proposal in a park in Amsterdam, and I discovered playing mantra's and kirtans. Also I played with dj's on dance events like Mysteryland. But mainly I play baroque music on period instruments in churches😇

Apart from that I became (sports)masseur so if needed I could squeeze your muscles in return for hosting me:)

Update: last seven years I have been living on Curacao, Carribean, where I taught the violin and played salsa. I turned vegan and became an animal love. Now I am traveling and volunteering in Turkiye and Indonesia is next!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

In Amsterdam I had hosted so many people.. I was getting too many requests! On curacao I did not host but did hang out and always tried to find solutions for people who contacted me

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been hosting mainly, and surfed only once in Berlin, and it was perfect:) Nice to meet new people!
Well and I was a couch surfer on Cuba, but there it is used for earning money.. can’t blame them

Interests

Making music and feel connected
Now also... Massage people for example on events; It is a new way for me to communicate with an audience:)
Update : I travel and volunteer through Workaway at the moment, doing various jobs from cat and dog and housesitting to making mud houses

  • animals
  • concerts
  • dancing
  • music
  • violin
  • sports

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When I played the viola d'amore in concert for the first time in my life.
Visiting Indonesia for the first time

Teach, Learn, Share

I teach playing the violin

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Curaçao, Czech Republic, England, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles

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