CURRENT MISSION

learn arabic! meet people, travel as much as possible between the hard work:-)

ABOUT ME

i am a sporty girl, grew up in the Netherlands from a Dutch mom and Syrian father , and becoming a medical doctor ...but in the meanwhile, there's so much more than only working hard! I try to get out of the hospital for a good trip whenever possible:-) I enjoy sportive and endurancetesting activities like camping,biking and hiking in the mountains but also love to get to know other cultures and countries histories.Always try to take a book with folk stories home from whatever destination. Plus, I am a sucker for archecological sites....nothing beats a nice ancient colonade:-)

PHILOSOPHY

live life to the max, and leave a clean and beautiful trace behind

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

am new to hosting myself, but when i am back and settled down, i will lovingly add a generous couch to the CS community!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet, but did some unoffical surfing before though:-) the best of friends are met on the way.I love it when the travelling experience is enriched by sharing it with some locals; that's what makes it worth it, compared to just hopping from one touristic site or bus to another.

Interests

literature, travel, outdoor activities,culture and archeology.

• animals
• culture
• books
• literature
• coffee
• traveling
• socializing
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• surfing
• rock climbing
• archeology
• medicine
• lakes
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

books: the Hakawati (rabih alameddine), On beauty (Zadie Smith), all the works of Amin Malouf, extrmeely loud and incredibly close (Safran Foer), Haroun and the sea of stories(Rushdie), White tiger (aravind adiga), Shadow of the wind (Ruiz safon)
music: almost everything
movies: the green mile, das leben der anderen, 7 years in tibet,dances with wolves,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

seeing rays of morning sunlight break trough the trees to enchant a lone totem pole at an earlymorning hike at the pacific Rim park @Vancouver Island.

Experiencing an earthquake when sleeping in a bunkbed (top bed!) at a junglelodge in Costa Rica's Corcovado national park....the animals where all upset in the middle of the night, screaming for an hour.

Meeting a black bear with her cub just a few yards away while hiking a trail in the 7 lakes basin, Olympic National park, USA

Sunset seen from the citadel, Palmyra, Syria

Berlin while it was snowing and any coffee seemed to taste like a treat.

Iceskating on Dutch canals.

Sip coffee in the sun on Christmas day in an Achrafieh terrace, Beirut.

Climbing Mount st Helens volcano, Washington state, USA

The morning view of Macchu Picchu, Peru.

Cruising through the wonderful karst islands of Halong bay, vietnam.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Netherlands Antilles, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Lebanon, Netherlands, Syrian Arab Republic, United States