Living in a full life with fam and lots of kids in South Africa. Love designing and creating architecture.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Travel and meeting and hosting people

Interests

I decided years ago that being a classically trained architect in the Netherlands was too easy a life to live and there are better things to put your energy into. I have since worked in an orphanage in Lesotho, travelled through sub Saharan Africa and am now on a mission to raise up young people to enjoy designing as a profession in Africa.

• architecture
• sketching
• cooking
• gardening
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• cycling
• hunting
• snowboarding
• dutch
• christianity
• 3d modeling
• scouts
• holland
• 3d printing
• braai
• netherlands
• sketchup
• yakitori
• blackwing pencils

Music, Movies, and Books

House, Rock, Pop, Classic, Ambient, Trance

The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dune, The brothers Karamazov, Ready Player One, Foundation.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I worked for a year in an orphanage in Lesotho with 89 children. I now work as an architect with 1 apprentice who grew up in a South African orphanage.

Teach, Learn, Share

Sketchup3d, design, interior, architecture

What I Can Share with Hosts

My crazy travel stories of how I hitchhiked through South Africa. My love for a rich family life and my experiences of raising up small kids. I always want to learn more and am forever interested in learning new things and discover new depths of thinking.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Namibia, Scotland, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Lesotho, Netherlands, South Africa