CURRENT MISSION

My motto is "I help people find their voice". My second motto is "never do for your children what they can do for themselves".

ABOUT ME

Two of our seven children are married and have given us 4 beautiful grandchildren between them, one in heaven and the rest live in Sydney, Melbourne and touring around the country. My husband and I yearn for a quiet life and have moved to a farm in East Gippsland, Victoria, where we grow vegetables & beef with the assistance of wonderful "workawayers" from all over the world, and operate a BnB.
PHILOSOPHY

Make the world a better place by the time you leave it.

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As my son, Nick, has, on our behalf, hosted more couchsurfers than I now remember - at our home - I thought I'd log on myself too. In 2014 my daughter, Mariette, and I did some couchsurfing in the UK. Now I'm about to visit an ailing cousin in the Netherlands and may need to find alternative accommodation, depending on her health.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Two memorable experiences in the UK in 2014 with our daughter...in Nottingham and in Porlock.

兴趣

Music, especially choral; liturgy; oral communications; travel, especially in Australia and Europe; languages; self-improvement; adult education; historical novels and Netfilx.

• education
• traveling
• music
• communications
• teaching
• languages

音乐、电影和书籍

Art music, dramas and historical novels.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

The best year of my life was when my husband and I took our then five children in a bus done up as a mobile home around outback Australia for 15 weeks. We called ourselves "Seven Little Australians" and our motto was "Querentes perspicientia" - "in search of understanding". We found it.

教，学，和分享

I love teaching people how to confidently express themselves with words, gesture and voice. Communicating one's message orally is a vital life skill.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

I am a Dutch ex-pat who can't get my homeland out of my blood. I also love the country I've lived in most of my life, Australia. Anyone I stay with will benefit from my extensive knowledge of "Down Under" (I've travelled around a fair bit, including the outback) and would be MOST welcome to come and stay on our farm if ever they travel to our wonderful, sunburnt country.

我游览过的国家

Belgium, Fiji, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Palestine, Singapore, Solomon Islands, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

我居住过的国家

Australia, Netherlands

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