Hello there, my name is Roos. I am a 29 year old musician from the Netherlands, currently living in Den Haag.
My two key passions in life are to create & to connect. I like variety, so I do this in a couple of ways. I work as a project manager for The Present, an organisation who connects entrepreneurs to social initiatives, mostly focussed on refugees, newcomers & homeless people. I also work as a project manager for De Vrolijkheid; a non-profit organisation providinf art workshops for kids and young adults living in asylum seeker centers. Before this I have also done a lot of volunteering and work with refugees and newcomers (both in the Netherlands and in Greece).
As a musician, I spend my time songwriting, co-writing, recording, arranging, mixing, performing, and also working on the business side of being an independent artist.
I have two artist projects: Maida Rose & Roos Meijer, who both reflect an important side of myself. My solo project (Roos Meijer) is alt-folk music, focussed on stories of people from all over the world, all linked to societal themes: https://www.byroosmeijer.com/. Maida Rose is my dreampop band with my best friend Javièr, where we focus more on creating a sonic world and which is my autobiographical (and therefor very personal) musical project: https://maidarose.com/.

In my free time I love reading, writing, hanging out with friends & family, embroidery, doing and learning other crafts, spending time at the beach or elsewhere in nature, photography and meeting new people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet people from different countries & cultures!

Interests

• writing
• photography
• human rights
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• philosophy
• volunteering
• nature
• creativity
• composing
• humanity
• songwriting

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini, The Prophet - Khalil Gibran, Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro, Demian - Hermann Hesse, Kafka On The Shore - Haruki Murakami, The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho, Just Kids - Patti Smith, Harry Potter (all of them)

Movies:
Donnie Darko, The Swimmers, Shawshank Redemption, Call Me By Your Name, Jeux d'enfants, Lion, Aftersun, Harry Potter (all of them)

Series:
Fleabag, The White Lotus, Orange Is The New Black, New Girl, Gilmore Girls

Music:
Bon Iver, Beach House, Daughter, Fairuz, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Taksim Trio, Alexandra Savior, Tame Impala, The War On Drugs, Pink Floyd, Tom Odell, Rufus Wainright, Julia Jacklin, Arctic Monkeys, The Last Shadow Puppets, Warhaus, Pond, The Beatles, Jeff Buckley, Queens Of The Stone Age, Etta James, Big Thief, Melody's Echo Chamber, Aretha Franklin, The Lemon Twigs, The Kills, Patti Smith, Fleetwood Mac, Selda... I can go on forever.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Costa Rica, Curaçao, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Netherlands, United Kingdom