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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, German; learning French
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • PhD in Lightweight Structures
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • From Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
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About Me

Hello there, so this is me, a 24 yr old engineer, a wanderer, wondering about work, life, career, you know the usual suspects...

PHILOSOPHY

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once and a while, you could miss it."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I guess the internet is pretty awesome, we can watch cat videos at any given moment, and I am a big fan of this new sharing economy, from Uber to BlaBlaCar and AirBnB to Couchsurfing.

But in the end, the internet is pretty one dimensional and the best traveling experience you find is with locals, and that is why BlaBlaCar>Uber and Couchsurfing > AirBnB. Happy to be your local and hopefully vice versa sometime :)

Interests

PROFESSIONAL: Lightweight and durable structures

PERSONAL: Cycling, soccer, music, philosophy

  • cats
  • traveling
  • music
  • cycling
  • soccer
  • engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Blake Mills, Jonathan Wilson, The XX, DJ Koze, Moodymann, Nicolas Jaar, Hot Chip, JT And The Clouds, Fleetwood Mac, ...

MOVIES: The Big Lebowski, Drive, Moonrise Kingdom, Goodfellas, The Usual Suspects, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, ...

BOOKS: Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Franz Kafka, Arthur Japin, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Currently doing a cycling trip from the Netherlands to the top of the Mont Ventoux, France to raise money for street children in Colombia. Read more about it on maastrichtventoux.wordpress.com

Teach, Learn, Share

Never take any advice too seriously

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands

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