ABOUT ME

I'm Karlijn, 27 years old, and I grew up in Voorschoten, The Netherlands with my mum, dad, brother and two sisters. Im curious, enthusiastic and chaotic. I love to read, play chess, guitar and boarding; singing too, but my friends are not fond of my performances I suppose;)

I'm now living in Ghent, Belgium, where I study a bit to broaden my knowledge and to extend my student life a bit longer. Here in Ghent, the people learned me everything about special beers and I play more chess at a cafe than I ever did in Holland. Besides chess I spend my time playing with my improvisation theatre group all around Belgium.

I am living with 4 other roommates (m/f), Belgium and Dutch. Our house is a real student-like house, messy but big, and our pickup player plays from Dire Straits, Marley, Beatles, Queen to the Specials. We are also accompanied by a fish, turtle and a cat.

Just ask if you are around and need a place. In the weekends I sometimes hop to Amsterdam/Utrecht/The Hague, to visit my Dutch friends and family; but this is very flexible.

PHILOSOPHY

Do not rush! Life is to short anyway.

If yellow is no colour then how to describe the sun?

Sorry I am late!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In India I was invited to spend a week with a lovely Indian family. Furthermore, I got hosted in Palestine for 3 months and couch surfed in Europe (For instance, Sweden, Norway, I stayed with a nice Dutch family in Berlin for two months and I spend my first week in Ghent on a couch (before I hired a room))

Interests

Travelling
Snowboarding
Reading
(Good) conversations

• cats
• dogs
• fish
• culture
• books
• singing
• beer
• running
• coach
• partying
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• fishing
• backpacking
• surfing
• snowboarding
• sports
• hockey
• tennis
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Blink: the power of thinking without thinking
Catch-22
1984
a brave new world
A sort of history of nearly everything

Music: Yiruma / Gramatik /Johnny Cash / Coltrane/ Ludovico Einaudi / Moby / Murford and sons / Gonzales / Coldplay / Dire Straits/ Beth Hart / Manu Chao / Kollektic Turmstrasse / Marbert Rochel / Goldfish /Klangkarussel / Wankelmut / Eddie Vedder / Josh stone / Brad Mehldau / Elderbrook / Ryuichi Sakamoto

Series:
Black mirror
The killing
True detectives
Suits, Homeland, Vikings, Game of thrones ed.

Movies:
Departures (おくりびと)
American beauty
Amelie poulet
Detachement
Good bye lenin!
Zand
Louis Theroux docs
La vita e Bella

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent a couple of months in India in 2009 and 2011:
Besides the normal backpack stuff which was really great (meeting people, enjoying both nature and culture), I have experienced a primitive way of life there without any luxury. For example, I spent one week in a really small village where electricity wasn't in use yet and that even can't be found by google-earth. In addition, to sleep in the desert next to my camel and to be awaked by a tongue of a wild dog that was fascinated by my appearance was a really weird experience :).

Teach, Learn, Share

Like to listen. But I can share social theories and some (psychological/ philosophical) thoughts that are running through my mind;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Palestine

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