ABOUT ME

An amateur-singer, a semi-buddhist, globe-trotter, personal shopper and a student of nursing. But mostly a slightly crazy, warmhearted girl, always in for fun and for making new friends.

PHILOSOPHY

I don't really have a philosophy, but I have learned a lot about Buddhism in India and Nepal in 2010.
I can't explain this in a short story, but I'd like to tell you anything about it in real life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

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COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The only Couchsurfing experience I have is travelling through England with my sister and crashing at peoples' places there. It was great and I will be travelling this way much more often! Also, I hope I will have a bigger room one day, so people can stay at my place too. I would love it to show you Utrecht or Delft, where I studied, or any other place in The Netherlands.

Interests

In fact I like almost everything. But to give you a short summary:

Art
Culture
Travelling
Music; playing music myself (piano and singing), listening music, and going to gigs and festivals to hear live music.
Food: both preparing it and eating it (a lot ;))
Dancing
Going out
Movies
Theater
Museums
People
Reading
Shopping
Language
Backpacking
Nature

• arts
• culture
• books
• singing
• theater
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• shopping
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• piano
• backpacking
• buddhist
• rock climbing
• languages
• nursing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies are fantastic, so is Music and Books. I'm not really the kind of person who is watching television a lot, but watching good movies, I love to do. I love arthouse movies and the movies of Quentin Tarentino.

Music;
Actually I love many kinds of music. Going to the opera or visiting North Sea Jazz festival. Going to a salsa party, or raving in the rain in Brighton on dance and trance music. It depends on my mood what I listen, but I like a lot.

I love books really, but somehow I never read. I just can't take the time for it. And when I start reading I forget bout everything around me and finish it in no time.
But explaining what kind of books I read is difficult, because I have read books about buddhism, Nepal and Tibet, i've read detectives en romans. Just to much to mention, but not by far enough!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Teaching Buddhist monks in Nepal, Sankhu.
-Going to Patna on my own, being robbed, but safed by a very special and nice person who gave me shelter, food and money so I could continue my trip to BodhGaya.
-Going to BodhGaya without money. BodhGaya is the place of Buddha's Enlightment and it is a very special, inspiring and spiritual place to be. Because I was robt, buddhist monks and buddhist people from France, China, Denmark, Nepal and India have helped me and gave me food.
I met the Karmapa on his 900st anniversary and the Shermapa was also an amazing experience.
-Climbing the Lantang mountain with a group of volunteers on a hight of 4600 m.
-Bungeeumping from 160 m high.

So in short, my stay of 3 months in Nepal and India was the most amazing thing I have every done.

Teach, Learn, Share

Oh I realy don't now. I am a curious girl and love to learn new things, new languages, new cultures, new artists, movies, books. I love it when people can give me recommendations about anything or to have a discussion.

And what can I teach?
I don't know really. Since I have been in Bodhgaya and taught English in a Buddhist Monastery, I know a lot about Buddhism. So if that interests you, just ask ahead!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Nepal, Netherlands