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My Great Escape!

ABOUT ME

First of all i find this very difficult but i try to be as honest as possible!

I was born back in the windy December-days of 1987 in Delft in Holland and the first 2 years i was living there and everything was just fine.
Then my parents made a very big mistake of moving to a little village called Pijnacker.
This village had no culture at all (some say no culture is also culture) it looked a little bit Eastern European when you are looking at the architecture of the buildings around you
(the teachers told me how lucky i should be growing up in the west and how to sing my capitalistic prayers every morning)
I might sound a little negative about the place i grow up but that doesn't mean i hated it....
No not at all i had great times over there and it gave me 15 years the opportunity to realize that i will never grow old in a place like this.
When i was 17 i trade my little village back again for Delft (the times i did the cookery-school) and my short student-periode i was living in Delft.
I travelled as much as i could and always enjoyed the times traveling.
After 2 and a half year i quit my school because i was mad and sad about everything and everyone.
I left Holland and i went to the Ship of Fools witch is a traveling boat filled up with artists and musicians (from all over the world).
Who survived with playing theater.
I learned a lot by this way of living and i enjoyed it very much and saw a lot of new ways of thinking and new places.
After some time traveling with this boat i stayed after all in Syros Greece where i lived for 9 months and also this made me aware of some things.
But because i am not very good in staying in one place i left again and traveled around in the Mediterranean area for some months.
After being very broke and losing a lot of weight i decided in September 2009 to return to my homeland.
Where a very good friend of mine gave me a place to stay and rest in Amsterdam...
So half a year later after gaining some weight and a bit of a little saving.
I left Amsterdam half march again and now i am trying to hitchhike to..... hmm actually i don't know yet.

PHILOSOPHY

Be the change you would like to see
(its not my phylosophy I stole it from Ghandi but i like it)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I beleave that couch-surfing is a very good solution to travel cheap but the main reason is that it shows the traveller a more honest image of place where he or she is.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted people and i surfed around europe.
I found out that the most people i met on couchsurfing are great people (ofcourse they give away there couch without knowing you in a time where alot of people are scared). Sometimes you dont have a click-clack but that seems to be quit normal in life...

Interests

My interests are:
Cultures
Traveling
Theater
Juggling
Music (playing and listening)
Books (reading and burning)
I love to walk, talk and to cook

• culture
• books
• singing
• theater
• architecture
• cooking
• boating
• reading
• traveling
• juggling
• music
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
-O Vasilias
-Das Leben der Anderen
-The edge of heaven
-Goodbye Lenin
-Amelie
-Basquiat
-Into the wild
-Clockwork orange
-Me and you and everyone we know

Music:
I enjoy a lot of sorts of music!
World Music
Jazz
Blues
Gypsy
Rock 'n Roll
enz enz enz
I enjoy music wich is made with love and non-profit.
But there are some bands or people i really enjoy:
The Velvet Underground
Tom Waits
The Cure
Amsterdam Klezmer band
Bob Dylan
The smiths (sorry)

Books:
Ask the dust
Tropic of cancer
Discovery of heaven
The Catcher in the Rye

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When i was 8 years old, stealing candy from a candy store!

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Netherlands

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