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Overview

  • 3 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German, Spanish
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • Post-doc researcher in cross-cultural psychology
  • University
  • From Veldhoven & Nijmegen
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Eat well, travel often

ABOUT ME

I am a 28 year old Dutch female, living in Bremen for a over four years (time flies!).

PHILOSOPHY

"Eat well, travel often"
"Be open to whatever comes next"
"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfed my first couches with a friend in Australia in 2010, which was a great introduction into Couchsurfing and motivating to host myself sometime. In the mean time, I have hosted a few people every now and then and really enjoy meeting such a diverse range of people who are actually kind of similar too if you look closely :-).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My own best surfing experiences were with Aggy and Simon in Brisbane and in Copenhagen.

Interests

Travelling!, Anything about cultures, movies, figure skating, yoga.

  • dancing
  • tango
  • yoga
  • movies
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • sailing
  • rock climbing
  • psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Eat, Pray, Love; A short history of nearly everything.
Movies: Love Actually; Slumdog Millionaire
Music: Coldplay, Florence and the Machine, Gotye, Selah Sue, John Mayer, Adele, Birdy, Marlon Roudette, Caro Emerald etc., etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Teaching a bunch of kids in Northern Ghana, meeting geishas in Kyoto Japan, sailing the Whitesundays in Australia, climbing the Empire State Building, attending Hollywood movie premieres, exploring the streets of Shanghai, making it to the top of the Great Wall, discovering Turkish delights in Istanbul, enjoying tinto de verano in Malaga Spain, hiking up a volcano in Java Indonesia and tango dancing in Buenos Aires.

Teach, Learn, Share

Literally? Social and cross-cultural psychology.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ghana, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands

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