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Overview

  • 16 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning German
  • 42, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Social Worker
  • Bachelor
  • From Heesch
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Travelling around the world

ABOUT ME

Strange to try describing yourself in a few words, but i'll give it a try.

I think i'm the kind of person who ACTS first and then starts thinking. Sometimes that will cause embarrassing situations, but most of the time i'm quite fine with it.

I'm interested in people around me. Whether it's on my job (working with psycho-troubled children) ór while travelling. There's always interesting people around me, and i simply try to understand them better and better.

As more people on this site. of course i simply lóve travelling.

Uhm... my hobbies... Music! listening all kind of music, going to festivals and making music (but the last thing i'm not so good at, i'm just very enthousiastic!)
Besides music I like to cook and read.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been couchsurfing several times at several places in Europe.
Since i live in quite a small town i didn't have that many CS requests yet, but once we're back from our big trip, perhaps that will change, I hope so.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I´ve been surfing quite a few cities in Europe, Paris, Granada, Almeria, Thun, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and some places in Italy...

We once hosted a French couple (it was also the only request we had so far). And it felt good that finaly we we're able to host somebody instead of surfing.

Been to several events in Europe.

Interests

Travelling, like most people on CS.
Books and Music.

  • books
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • running
  • traveling
  • music
  • opera
  • surfing
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Harry Potter, Jonathan Safran Four (Extremely loud and incredibly close), Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner),
Mark Haddon (The curious incident of the dog in the night-time)

Movies, i don't watch a lot of movies, but i really liked "Kiss kiss bang bang"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

That's the great thing about CS, you end up in situations you didn't expect before.
Like...
- Running like crazy through Saint Petersburg and suddenly ending up (still sweating like hell) in a Russian Soap Opera! Camera's and Russian Soap Opera stars all around me.
- Getting a free ride from Saint Petersburg to Moscow in a very shaky truck, which isn't that fast.
- Hitchhiking 1800 km through amazing Armenia, Georgia and Turkey. Wonderful countries, wonderful people. (Getting in somebodies car and 5 minutes later we we're invited to stay at there place for the next few days in Tblisi)

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