Hi everyone! Please note: I get quite a lot of requests each day and sometimes don’t have time to answer to them. I usually don’t commit to hosting anyone a long time in advance. I usually spontaneously decide I feel like hosting someone one or two days before. Oh yeah and I’m gay🌈 so if you’re anything other than 100% okay with that, please don’t message me :) Having said all that, please feel free to send a request!

Some things about me: I grew up in the Netherlands, but spent the last years studying and working in Aberdeen, Brussels, Berlin, Cambridge, Oslo, and The Hague. I'm now sharing my time between Amsterdam and Kabul.

I like going out, dancing, strolling around cities, chilling in parks. I also like talking about politics and feminism.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I surfed some couches in the US a couple of years ago, and have hosted several times. Mostly used CS for meeting people when I moved to a new place, which has been great, I met lots of really wonderful people this way.

Interests

• literature
• dancing
• lgbt rights
• environment
• womens rights
• politics
• socializing
• guitar
• parks
• effective altruism

Music, Movies, and Books

Some of my favourite singers/bands: Regina Spektor, Billie the Vision and the Dancers, the Wave Pictures, Bob Dylan, Mountain Goats, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Paul Simon.
Some of my favourite writers: Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse, Astrid Lindgren, Toon Tellegen, Adriaan van Dis, Thea Beckman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Virginia Woolf.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The first time I surfed someone's couch: we met our host at his office and he just handed us the key to his Manhattan apartment and said: you know the address, go make yourselves at home and maybe I'll see you around tonight.

Teach, Learn, Share

I’m learning how to play the guitar so if you can help me with that it’d would be wonderful!
Also trying to improve my French and German.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Afghanistan, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, United Kingdom