CURRENT MISSION

to become one of the well-travelled.. to explore..and to sleep on as many different couches as possible!!!

ABOUT ME

I am of dutch nationality but I don't like to wear wooden shoes(klompen) but I do have a pair somewhere lying around. I am bilingual due to the fact that my parents moved our family to Canada 12 years ago. Family is really important to me and it always comes number 1!.

PHILOSOPHY

"Live your dreams"
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll always land among the stars"
"Be the best you can be"
"Enjoy life.. live life to the fullest"
"Be yourself!"
explore!

I live life because life is worth breathing.. life is good, there is tons to see, to experience, to try, I just feel like I have so much to explore and that's what I live for.

Poem: by Robert Frost ~ Nothing Gold Can Stay~
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her Early leaf's a flower,
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grieve,
So dawn goes down today,
Nothing Gold can stay

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have a little bit of couch surfing experience. I hosted someone at my house once and I couch surfed with a friend once in London. It was so much fun and currently I am heading to spain with my sister and cousin for some more couch surfing experiences!
I also have some other less formal couch surfing experiences. The summer of 2006 when I travelled with my sister in our van to BC.. we slept in the car the odd nights so I guess that is as close to a couch as it came to be!! All is know is about my couch surfing experience is that you meet extremely fun, nice loving people and that no matter where you are you feel at home.

Interests

Oh so many... I love sports, volleyball, soccer, swimming, climbing, biking, hiking, surfing, camping, pot lucks, starry skies, oceans, beaches, campfires etc.
I also enjoy all different kinds of music, I love to play guitar, I like to paint and play around with the camera.
I like to try new things, eat new food and meet new people. I am very social and love to talk about anything really. Travelling is probably my most favorite interest and I would love to explore as many different countries and cultures as a I can!!

• animals
• wildlife
• dining
• flowers
• traveling
• painting
• music
• guitar
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• sports
• rock climbing
• soccer
• volleyball
• swimming
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music,.. anything from reggae to rock, funk, hip-hop, trance.. etc. I like coldplay, Xavier Rudd,Robert Plant
Bob Marley, Rolling stones, Pearl Jam, Current Swell, Bedouin Soundclash, Matisyahu, Mumfort and Sons, Neil young
Movies - comedy and documentaries!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Treeplanting the summer of 2006 was quite the enjoyable experience, and so was cherry-picking in BC. I thought seeing a baluga whale in the waters of Quebec was also amazing. The northern Light in Northern Ontario, or the brightest rainbow in Alberta were also some things that blew my mind. Since then I have been to many extraordinary places in the world. I have seen New york, Chicago, New Orleans, I have helped to build a house in New Orleans with habitat for humanity as well as in El salvador this past February. I also loved living in New Mexico in the middle of the desert for 5 weeks as a research assistant or in bush camp with the hunters in northern BC (Canada) where I worked with the natives.
I love the outdoors and seeing animals such as moose, deer, bears and orca whales, or other wildlife. Surfing has become one of the things i love to do on the West Coast of Canada and Vancouver island is one of my favorite places in the world. I just love it there. Surfing in Tofino, Vancouver Island is a lot of fun, a little chilly but there are hot tubs or hot springs to warm you up! Wow, I can just go on and on, there have been amazing things I have done but I can't wait for the amazing things yet to see!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll share or teach whatever people want to learn from me and the experiences I have had!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, El Salvador, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Peru, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Netherlands

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