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Overview

  • 72 references 46 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French, German, Spanish; learning Chinese, Portuguese
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Academic researcher (social sciences)
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

mind bridging

ABOUT ME

Human

PHILOSOPHY

Don't sweat the small stuff. Always looking for new views and angles on life. Share your story and join the bright circle of this planet's dancing souls.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Love to observe people's spirits and thoughts while practicing the art of mutual participation.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Good people. The world is full of it. Especially on this website.

Interests

Life. Life!

  • arts
  • dancing
  • guitar
  • rock climbing
  • soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

To fly, we have to have resistance.
(Maya Lin)

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without. (Ernest Hemingway)

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Oscar Wilde)

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
(Oscar Wilde )

Perhaps one has to be older before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
(Pearl S. Buck)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Playing guitar in the Beijing subway. Climbing a hill 4AM in Tikal (Guatemala)that turned out to be a temple and hear the jungle wake up. Getting my ass kicked playing football (soccer) with local kids in Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia) at an altitude of 5500 m :)

Teach, Learn, Share

ex-change. Get out (ex) & put new learning into practice (change). Be grateful. Exchange again. You now are whatever you strive to be.

What I Can Share with Hosts

We've literally just moved into a new courtyard hutong house right downtown hipster town next to the micro-breweries (guloudajie subway line 2, the historic old drum tower). We are still in the process of fixing it but there is a sofa to crash and it's got a roof, kitchen and bathroom. Depending on the days there might be a room available (one person living there half-time). There might (and should) be bikes available.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Ecuador, Egypt, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Slovenia, Taiwan, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, China, Costa Rica, Germany, Ireland, Spain

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