CURRENT MISSION

Upcoming researcher, interested in where technology and culture intertwine

ABOUT ME

I am open-minded, have travelled / hitchhiked a lot. Really like new places, peoples and ideas as a creative input for life. We should just meet.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hitchhiking through europe, norway, sweden, denmark, france, et cetera and meeting new people on the road was a good incent for starting to surf some couches. Although I have no specific couchsurfing experience yet, I hope to find a couch in Boston USA soon.

Interests

Playing music (accordion, piano), listening to music, gather new experiences, drinking too much coffee, reading, a lot of travelling, the world, you.

• culture
• writing
• dancing
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• technology
• reading
• traveling
• music
• piano
• business
• hitchhiking

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

HONG KONG:
Dead fries and plastic music, sitting on a chair on the top of Hong Kong island, I am watching the sea at McDonalds. The sun has melted in the fog and won't last much longer. I will wait untill it has gone, for only darkness can reveal Hong Kong's true city image. As promised, an hour later the sky is fully polluted with advertisement's neon lights.

My feet are tired, they have carried me all over the place. They spent the afternoon walking on a trail which led around the peaks of the once volcanic island, that nowadays is home to many skyscrapers: HK's the business district. Being deliberately lost, with canto ostinato in my ears, my mind took over. My head flooded with emotions on this last day. Beautiful Hong Kong, immersive music that I know so well, and memories of the life I put on hold a half a year ago, made me linger the trail in my own cloud of luck.

Hong Kong is what many European cities could only dream of. Skyscrapers and big roads filled with traffic are dancing intertwined. As a pedestrian, you can walk from one massive skyscraper to the other without actually touching the street. Walking paths seem simply to float in the air. Walking feels a bit like the kids game where you challenge each other not to touch the ground (apenkooien).

A couple of girls are making pictures of me, while I am writing. A blond hairy giant, with a Scandinavian sweater and a notebook, writing quasi casual on a mountain in Hong Kong, is of course worth taking a picture of. Being completely out of context. And that is exactly what traveling is all about. Next week, this giant is going to be placed into context again. Do not get me wrong, it is perfectly lovely to be out of context sometimes, and certainly refreshing, but it can be confronting too. It shows you your own background, ideas and expectations, it shows you who you are.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands