CURRENT MISSION

~ Search..~ Live my life - love. Write.

ABOUT ME

I like the sea and the coast. I like the smell of rain - corny huh! I like to lay on a trampoline beside someone I love and gaze at the sky. I like the sauna, I like to walk and to dance.
I love language and its limitations and where those limitations take us. I'm quite comfortable with the living contradiction that I am because I realized we're all contradictions, and at least it's not boring. Love is bigger than anything, even though sometimes I seem to forget that.

Yadayadayada open-minded extremely sensitive person, but I wouldn't be myself if from time to time I were confrontational or absent-minded. In general quite a good listener. Sometimes a tad naive, and sometimes too serious (maybe that's because I'm the oldest of me and my two brothers and the rest of all cousins). I am interested in different cultures and in communication between people. I love to dance - I did some modern dance myself from 12 until 17 in high school. I'm sportive; like to read... I have studied European Union - Russian studies in Tartu, Estonia.

PHILOSOPHY

"The power of knowledge lies in doubt" Maksim Gorkij
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it" Andre Gide
Get drunk, on wine, poetry, or virtue :) Charles Baudelaire.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have had the pleasure to surf before and I wanted to return the favor. I love to meet a wonderful person, like you!

Earlier I wrote: I learned about couch surfing only a month ago, through a friend I met here in Russia (where I am now (02/2009-06/2009)). I think it's a very nice project, and I am glad to make use of it using people's hospitality! As soon as I have my own place, I would surely be interested to offer a couch as well.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've stayed in Novgorod for two nights with a very friendly lady, she called to the number I had left in a message to her. Most other people I have contacted so far could not help me, but I requested for their couch only two days before I would arrive!

Intereses

Dance, culture, people, artistic expression, travelling, communication, Russia, the history of the Soviet Union. European - Russian relations (International relations)

• culture
• dancing
• environment
• traveling
• history
• international relations

Música, películas y libros

El mar adentro, das leben der anderen, la vie en rose.... historical/biographical movies interest me a lot.

Anyone who picks up an instrument and starts playing it has my interest :D
I suck at listing things.
I like Norah Jones, Jamiroquai, Mali and Senegalese music, Bjork, Morcheeba, Bebe....... and the bazillion others that I won't mention here and now.

Algo increíble que he hecho

Living in Russia for about eight months has been one of the most interesting experiences in my life, and left a very big impression on me.
Once I went to Murmansk and danced in -33 Celsius. Just moving to keep warm I mean. Not actual dancing.

African dance that I have seen (and tried to dance myself) in Ghana, is one of the most vivid, strong, emotional and beautiful expressions I have ever seen.

The Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, and the blue doors throughout Morocco...

The Alhambra in Granada...

Dutch 'perfect environment' in comparison with underdevelopment that I have seen elsewhere keeps on impressing me more and more every time I come home, I it somehow also makes me feel quite nervous every now and then.

Enseña, aprende, comparte

You can learn from your mistakes, difficult situation(s) you were in, and from unexpected help and love you receive from people!

Países que he visitado

Belgium, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Thailand

Países en los que he vivido

Estonia, Ghana, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Spain