CURRENT MISSION

Hear and make great music!

ABOUT ME

I'm doing a PhD in Amsterdam now, which is very time-consuming and mentally exhausting. So to keep my mind from being caught in the web of science, I play the saxophone in a big band here in Amsterdam. Which is a lot of fun. But more fun is to listen to other jazz, funk and soul music played by 'real' musicians! :D This is the music I like most, but I listen to world, alternative and more. So please bring your favorite, especially if it's from your hometown/country. Furthermore I like sports, watching them on the TV or the stadium (Ajax, the Amsterdam soccer club) and doing it myself. I did karate for many years and do a bit of running and pilates now. I like to do (extreme)outdoor sports on holidays, especially the ones I never did before!
Culture is one of my favorites as well, visiting beautiful cities with great architectural buildings, museums and people of course!
And me: I'm fun, clumsy (but in a cute way..), curious, intelligent, lazy, adventurous, interested in almost anyhing!!

PHILOSOPHY

Sunny days make life more beautiful

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By offering my couch, and thereby getting to know people from different countries, with different cultures and views on life.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not much yet, since I'm really busy unfortunately

兴趣

See about me. Briefly: science, music, sports, art, literature, etc.

• arts
• culture
• literature
• pilates
• running
• clubbing
• reading
• tv
• music
• jazz
• outdoor activities
• sports
• soccer
• history
• science

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies: The Motorcycle Diaries, Lost in Translation, Brokeback Mountain, Little Children, Milk, La Mala Educacion, Hable con ella, Todo sobre mi madre, Babel, Snatch, Fight Club, Burn after Reading, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Being John Malkovich, etc.

Music: Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Ike Quebec, Lee Morgen, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Snow Patrol, the Kooks, Rupa & the April Fishes, Yael Naim, Eli Reed, Room Eleven, C-Mon & Kypski, Marike Jager, Sharon Jones, Morcheeba, Benjamin Herman, Amos Lee, KT Tunstall, etc.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Went to Vancouver Island, which was the most beautiful place I've seen so far. Plus, I went whale-watching there. A dream came true: we saw a humpback whale.

教，学，和分享

I can teach you about Amsterdam's history (in a few months, since I'm reading all about it now. But it's a lot, so give me some time to finish it..). And I'd be delighted to teach you Dutch, most of the time it will be hilarious for me :)

我游览过的国家

Bulgaria, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania, Turkey

我居住过的国家

Netherlands, United States