CURRENT MISSION

1: Working on my 'Feeling Welcome Project' (see photo's) 2: Enjoy my Norway memories

ABOUT ME

Currently I work as a primary school teacher. How nice! Love to teach, children in this case. I guess they will be the next generation, so there is work to do, haha.
I like to play guitar and also the piano, however since I moved to my own place in the summer of 2007, I have to miss the piano of my housemate... Don’t want to talk about it... :)
One of my favorite hobbies is cooking with and for some friends. A good opportunity to talk, share life’s and have fun together. I also like to go out for some kiting, surfing, running and a lot of other sports. Traveling gives me a lot energy and inspires me every single time.

Love to spent some quality time with my parents and two brothers in and near by Amsterdam.

I’m a relax and easy going guy, who like to think about live, motivations and the way we live our life al together is this place called earth. You know the movie ‘Pay it forward’? That little fellow knows what I’m talking about.

Well, we will meet if the time is there!

PHILOSOPHY

'Love God above all, and you neighbor as yourself.'
Yes, I borrow this one from Jesus, but hey don't worry, I have asked it Him first.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Enjoying the project - by hosting and traveling - wich we should build together!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Read my references I would say :p

Interests

Sport (sailing, kiting, surfing, mountain bike, etc.), Adventure, Music, Religion, Cooking, People, Theater, Education, Politics by the time.

• theater
• education
• cooking
• beer
• running
• politics
• traveling
• cars
• music
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• surfing
• sailing
• sports
• teaching
• religion
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Into the wild, The Genius Club, Pay it foreward, Blood Diamond, Finding forrester, and a lot more..
I'll also go for some ‘feeling good’ movies, like serendipity. Why? Well, it makes me feel good, I guess. ;)
Like the Irish accent in ‘PS. I love you’ and ‘The Last Sin Eater’. Also the French in the ‘Taxi’ series.

Music:
Music like Kim Walker, Hillsong, Delerious, Jason Upton, Lifehouse, U2, Goldplay, Marco Borsato, etc. But hey, why don’t write your own music!?
I like to listen to life music and street musicians.

Books:
Well, the books that gets my attention, I guess. Like to read some study books or a good story by the time.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

For now it will be my one man trip to Norway.
- Staring to the full moon during a hitchhike trip, while laying on a mattress in an empty back of a VW-bus of two Swedish guys who planned to load their bus to the limit with beer from Germany. Cheers! :)
- In one day (9.00 am - 2.30 am) I traveled (included four other cars/trucks, and two short ferry trips) from Evje (Norway) to Copenhagen (Denmark) by hitchhiking.
Hit the road Jack! :)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach:
Playing the guitar (don’t have a piano here :/)
Cooking
(power)Kiting, skimbording, wavesurfing

Teach & learn together:
My kitchen is small, but totally cook-proof, yeah! So feel encouraged to express your Jamie Oliver talents to the limits, just as I do all the time. Bring on some good original and traditional receptures!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, France, Norway, Romania, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands

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