Liza van Kuijk

Weird how we still hardly personally met, when we are both pretty involved in CS and have been at some same meetings. So far I have a good impression of her, especially from when she came to our Groningen monthly meetings, because she seems friendly, and sincere and simple in her approach to CS.

Liza has sweet written al over her... it's impossible not to adore her when you meet her. Her bubbly and almost always smiling face works infectuous on a crowd!

Definetly looking forward to meet her again when I come to Utrecht (not too long from now :))

We met at the Sinterklaas Meeting in Rotterdam and had great fun.. I got her present at the Event and loved so much the cute monkey bag!! Won't forget this unforgettable meeting.. See you soon, Sweetie!

We hosted Liza and Jasper just before we left for holidays: she's open-minded and active. Unfortunately we were busy and we'd loved to spend more time with them showing them around, but they did it really well: they even went to a CS meeting in Barcelona.

Liza is one of the most active members of the CS community. She's always in a good mood and willing to help people out. It's always fun to meet up! :)

I hosted Liza and her boyfriend Jasper in Toulouse in July. Though they stayed only for a night, I thoroughly enjoyed their company and our exchanges over diner and drinks. Discussing with those two is a great pleasure plus they are just as curious and passionate about CS than I am - I look forward to the next time we cross paths :)

I was hosted (along with a friend) by Liza and Jasper and would have to say it was an all round positive experience. Though we didn't get much time together, it was enough to draw positive conclusions!

Liza is a great gal, she always seems to have a smile on her face which is always conducive to a nice time out! It's to bad we didn't have more of a chance to chat.

Liza and Jasper hosted me and a friend for two nights in Utrecht. They are a wonderful couple who are true CSers. We had a great time just wandering the city and taking in the beautiful architecture and scenery. They took us to a Bokbierfestival with other CSers and I'll always remember riding the bicycles back. Your always around good people, good music and good times with Liza and Jasper.

I met Lisa and her boyfriend Jasper on my combined walking/bicyling-tour for the Opening of FESTIVAL of LIGHTS. We on the bikes met the walkers on each point and then had some chats about the places and Berlin-stories. Also Lisa assisted me with my photographing and protected the tripod as a "bodyguard" in that chaotic crowd at Unter den Linden/Bebelplatz ;-) THANKS a lot for your help. I felt much more comfortable and safe. I'm sorry I did this never ending cursing all the time because the camera didn't want to work. The camera came back to life only at the Brandenburg Gate later. This long Sit-In at the Gendarmenmarkt was awesome. Like in my old student days. I'm so sorry, that you had to leave at that point because of going back to Utrecht. And I would have liked to see you more often before. Maybe we have a chance at Berlin WinterCamp??? Would love it! If you need a host.... just ask ;-)))

I'm looking forward to get to know Liza in real life, but as Felicity she was very friendly (although she probably had her reasons for that in the game;))

I had a lot of fun on the 'Casino Fatal' evening, and of course Liza was there, since it was in 'her town'. She seems very nice and pillar to the Utrecht CS community!

She also was ill and showed up at the roleplay event Casino Fatale, so we had something in common. ;)

We had lots of fun at the evening and she can dance very good! :P

Liza is Utrecht's gift to CS :) She's intelligent, friendly and definitely worth meeting. I have the feeling that with more time we could have extremely interesting conversations, so I can't wait seeing her again!

smiling, active and lovely blond little girl/women, who's social and fun!

I was very fortunate to surf with Liza and Jasper. It was the night of a CS meeting/Monty Python night. Movies were watched, reenactments were made and there was much rejoicing. Liza's sweet and welcoming, and well worthy of her ambassadory title!

great time...I never have a couch experience like this one...
I just arrive in Utrecht and i was part in a couch group, around 8 person,and Jasper&Liza they was organising a tour of the city..
really really really nice!!!! they are 2person that represent this website in the BEST way I have ever seen...
I just regret to have too short time to spend with them...
Jasper be worry I'll training until I'll beat the pancake record!!

I met Liza also at the first CS Monty Python meeting as she is the girlfriend of Jasper and a Monty Python fan. She is a hospitable, cheerful, upbeat woman.
And I enjoyed my short stay with them very much.

I've met Lisa at several gatherings and ambassador gatherings. Lisa is pretty straight forward, active and sociable. As an active CS ambassador of Utrecht she has many stories about great CS adventures with Jasper. I'm looking forward to getting to know her better!

Had a nice experience surfing at her place, very friendly attitude. See you soon, and good luck!

We talked about Swedish people. It was interesting. Liza seems to be someone who has eyes in the back of her head to check if everyone is doing well, which makes her a good ambassador!

Well, what can I say, she's my sister if I didn't trust her, that would be strange, wouldn't it? :) She tells me where stuff is, where I sleep, and that's fine. We basicly understand each other with little words. And the atmospere is good.

Despite some unexpected problems she found in Madrid, i think she enjoyed her stay. I wasn't the las 2 days with her, but i had fun hanging out with her the first 2. Another thing i realized about her is that she doesnt like the sp train stations (but the sp train stations dont like her either).

see you in any of the upcoming CS meetings!

Hosting this couple, was the easiest for me, getting to know them, was difficult because I just met them for a day, but they are trully the CS spirit, they were a charming and well-behaved, respectful couple ever to visit my place.

Liza and Jasper are a very nice couple. The first night they saved our day by bringing the wine - we had forgotten it was a holiday ;).

It was great to randomly meet a someone with the same surname via couch surfing. (not too many Van Kuyks in New Zealand!) The more i learn about couch surfing the more im impressed and Liza is a perfect example of couch surfing at its best. She's always running around organising something fun - i wonder how she holds down a job too!??

Liza and Jasper are some of the best CS hosts around! Liza deserves the title of a CS ambassador. They are very welcoming, friendly, generous and interesting. They are intelligent minds and free spirits worthy of a couch. Thanks so much for making my stay in Utrecht so good. I'm always going to be looking for "the Utrecht" in every country I visit from now on! All the best, hope to see you both in Australia!

Jasper & Lisa are the greatest CS Host ever! We had a great time surfing their couch. Few times have one the opportunity to meet such a nice and friendly couple, who welcomes you not only in their house with other several CS but organize also a big party in the city! They both treated us with a hospitality along with giving you the opportunity to get to know the very special Netherlands culture through the most fantastic way, a treasure hunting! all the best & thank you again for your effort & commitment. Hopefully we will see each other again soon* either Netherlands or Mexico!

Liza and Jasper hosted me and my 2 friends for the midsummer party that was arranged in Utrecht. They are great hosts and they have a wonderful home. I felt welcome and well at all time in their company.
Liza is a great girl and she is lively and fun to be around.
Thank you so much for your hospitality and hope to see you for New Years in Oslo !

I had the pleasure to go to the midsummer night at the park she helped to organise and she and Jasper hosted me for the night. I found her energetic and friendly but we never got to talk much.
Hope to talk to you some more in the future.
Thanks for hosting me and thanks for the wonderful organisation!

Liza is a great CouchSurfer and CS ambassador, and loads of fun. She's always there to welcome people at the Utrecht Monthly meeting too, and she gave a great theater sports workshop.

Liza told me she's welcoming new members at CS, if she does the same good job as she and her boyfriend did at the Ambassadors meeting it's a very warm welcome! Keep interested in soccer ;)
Thx for the hospitality!

They have got there one cs room and you really fell welcome at there house.

I met Liza a few times at VIA and now also on CS. She is a very enthusiastic, positive and open person, and I think she is doing a great job for CS. Hope to see you soon on the Utrecht meetings!

Liza and Jasper have a beautiful new home that they kindly invited me into so I could revisit the awesome city I studied abroad at two years ago! They are very easy-going and comfortable people to be around, both doing great work through their normal jobs and volunteering projects! It was fun to hear about plans for CSers this summer, sort of makes me want to return! Thanks again for your hospitality and knowledge about Utrecht!

Liza is a sweet, funny and positive girl. She and her boyfriend made me feel very welcome at my first gathering with surfers from Utrecht. They both are very involved in the project and put a lot of effort to it, which i really respect.

Liza is a very active girl full of energy. Couchsurfing is just one of several things she is very enthusiastic about. She ìs Couchsurfing in Utrecht.

A helpful, hospitable, easy-going, open-minded girl full of positive energy. That's all about Liza! :)

A girl you start to like just after the first minute you've got to know her! Extremely nice, friendly, open minded! I stayed with my friend at her and Jasper's place during QueensNight and can talk about it only in superlatives!
Great hugs!!!

The main driver of CS in Utrecht together with jasper. A great girl with a ready smile, if there is anything going on in Utrecht she'll be there.

Hearing about her volunteering work in Sweden and her being an active member in the CS community must show that Liza has a big heart.

I saw her announcements and comments in groups many times and pictured her to be a nice person. When we met for the first time during Queens' Night 2008 we didn't have much talking opportunities, but I'm convinced that she is indeed that nice person. I'm sure I will see her again to get a better opinion.

Liza is a very open, enthusiastic warm person. She was actually the one who conviced me that being a City Ambassador isn't a big job but big fun.

Liza is the Utrecht ambassador for CouchSurfing and she does a superb job. She and her partner Jasper always organise the monthly meetings in the student city of Utrecht. This is also where we first met. Since than i got to know her a little, a quicksilver minded, kind, funny, open and socialy very skilled personality. She is a good laugh and really versatile, she and Jasper make an excellent couple! We even worked together on a CS music party project and it was a great succes, also mucho thanks to their efforts. Through CS and Liza I met so many great people. Whish you all the best in the new dwelling!

They are some of my best friends, we don't see each other often, but, we keep in touch by msn and skype

Lisa and Jasper hosted us in Utrecht 2 nights.The hosted us spontaneously when we have no where to go the 2nd night.Lisa is very sweet and kind & Jasper is very dedicated to Utrecht and his very cool band!You can feel that the love the city and it makes it much more interesting visting the town with them! Good choice on food! The pancakes are yummy!!

I met her at my first cs meeting, and she was friendly and good to talk to, very open and close with everyone!

It was really nice to talk with Lisa. And together with Jasper was really helpful and kind in giving us any kind of advices and informations! Sorry we couldn't spend more time with u on Easter day!..but it was nice going out at the belgian pub!!

Had some drinks at CS meetings, and good fun doing it!

Liza is a very sparklin person with a very big CS heart and spirit! Its good to know that Utrecht is in save hands!

I have met Liza in person during a CS meeting in Utrecht. We talked for a while and she was very enthusiastic about CS and very hospitable towards new members.

Liza is a super active couchsurfer and a super lovely girl. Staying at her (and Jasper) place has been great. The couchsurfing part was short, only one night, but we spent the day before and the morning after chatting and talking about couchsurfing and music and billions of other cool stuff.
Ciao, Liza, see you soon in Utrecht or Groningen ...or anywhere :)

Liza is enthousiastic about traveling and couchsurfing (ofcourse) and is fun and easy to talk with.

Born CS ambassador! Caring, positive, friendly, etcetera and so on. What a drive! Good luck with all the plans and we'll catch up soon somewhere somehow!

We both went to the Sziget festival in Budapest but somehow we never managed to meetup there. Back home we met eachother at several meetings in Rotterdam and Utrecht. She is a very open en energetic girl with the real couchsurf spirit!!

Liza is my colleague ambassador in Utrecht. She is an active person, and we will probably meet each other more in the future.

Well, after this long cue of references you have, I don't know if mine will add much more. :) Still, I really want you to know that I think you're a great organizer, you come with smart ideas all the time and you make people feel comfortable even when they don't know anybody else but you. :) Thanks for being my link to the CS community in Utrecht!

Lisa is a very openminded en talkative person. She shakes everyone who comes in on the meeting the hand and ask their names. Most of the time she can remember, and otherwise she will shake your hand again.

Had a few nice talks with her. Hope we meet again!

We met Liza and Jasper when we surfed their couch in Utrecht. Jasper showed us around and explained us the history of the city (incredible what he knows about Utrecht). In the evening we went out with Liza for a few drinks, thanks to her I discovered Kriek (cherry beer), mmmh...
They are both really nice, open minded friendly and hospitable! good luck with your new house....you're invited to come to innsbruck one day!!

CS = Liza
She organizes many of the Utrecht CS meetings, not only in the pubs in the center, but even in her own house. Thank you so much for being such a enthusiastic and hospitable person!

I know Liza as a very dedicated member of the workcampgroup. Very trustworthy and active. If she is just as enthusiastic as a host, she would make a great one!

I felt very welcome when they gave me a "hello-nice-to-meet-you-hug", and Liza's enthousiasm infected me... It was very easy to join and be a part of the free hugging activity. She is a very good cook! And fun to chat with! Hope to see her soon again!

indeed, too bad it was such a short encounter, though it was absolutely worth it. Liza organized some people in the evening and we had a small, good fun CS meeting in town (with loads of beer choice). I'm really looking forward to the gigswaping and will try my best to be there in Vienna ... thumbs up, what a great idea!!!! see you soon, my doors are open in Austria (when i'm there ;) )

Liza kindly opened up her home to a bunch of CouchSurfers for a post-meeting dinner. This was my first encounter with the community and she couldn't have made me feel more welcome. I had a great time and it turned me onto Couchsurfing!

you're welcome ;)

Liza seems to be very organized, independent and at the same time fun and crazy :) So she combines childishness and grownupness in one! Lucky people those who got hugged by her that day during Free Hugs Utrecht action! They must have been infected by her crazy wibes :)

Liza is very friendly and open - she and Jasper were incredibly hospitable, having a bunch of friends but also strangers (me being one of the strangers) over at their place after a day of free hugging. It was a very gezellige avond!

She rocks, is sweet and Jasper is lucky ;P

Oh, she dances her @$$ off.

lol

This Free Hugs meeting with Liza and the rest of the group was so spontanious and fun:)
What an experience, so many smiles, so many hugs, so much fun:)

Spontaneous girl and dedicated volunteer..

I experience Liza as a real enthusistic and inspirig CS-er. Taking a lot of initiatives to promote CS in Utrecht and the far surroundings. People as Liza give CS an extra dimension.

Liza and Jasper are very gentle and easy going people. They hosted me right away and gave me the chance to see their wonderful hometown Utrecht.
I am very thankful for that!

PS: I liked the gig very much.

Liza has been very nice with Antoine and me, we had a sympathetic couchsurf at her home.

Liza hosted me and Arnaud during 2 nights in Utrecht. She is a smilling, talkative person, and she is proud of her city, which is very great to visit, and certainly to live there. We have the same enthousiasm of CS, and we found many similarity between the CS communities of Utrecht and Lille. You are friendly welcomed to discover the one of Lille Liza, and naturally with Jasper !

Liza is a good flatmate to have, never had any troubles with here, could be that that's the case because she's more at her boyfriends place then at home and that I don't see her very often because of that. But when she is at home she's allways good to have around. Liza, maybe you should visit your home a little bit more often :)

Liza is definitely a very genuine and friendly person to be around.

Liza surfed my couch in Padua, Italy. She is so nice! One of the most beautiful smiles I've ever seen!

Couchsurfing Utrecht = Liza & Jasper. You should meet those two. I am so glad that I know them through CS! They are the most passionate CSers I ever met. They will let you feel as if you were in your home town. Check also the Utrechtmeetings, they will be there!

Liza is the best :) She is a very friendly and active member in Utrecht. Very sweet and nice to everyone she meets. Thanks for the Utrecht meetings Liza!

Kind and warm are euphemisms for Liza's character. Jasper was quite buzy so I spent some time chatting with her.
She has an interesting, open and generous personality, I really enjoyed meeting her and Jasper also in Rotterdam. Listening to her speaking in swedish brought back memories of the guy that got me into cooking in the forst place : boodyboodymuoonymush (the swedish chef) ! Interesting travel plans for new years also... Might copy them. Thanks for the couch&hospitality in your wonderful flat !
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I later had the joy of hosting both Liza and Jasper myself. It was great :) !

Lizza is always happy

Liza has played a big role in getting the cs scene in Utrecht to blossom. She's a radiant person and I am sure a wonderful host to this lovely city. I hope to see more of her and her boyfriend Jasper in the future. Next games night I'll surely be there!

Liza is my long forgotten sister, I never knew i had one, but i've found her on the couchsurfmeetings:P Liza is really cool, full of energy, and always in for fun! She's an active and enthousiastic couchsurfgirl!

liza is a friendly, open, nie person.. good ideas on cs in the netherlands & a positively active cs member :)

Very friendly as well as extra-enthusiastic and energetic everything she is involved in.

Without Liza we wouldn't have such a great Utrecht group! She's a really cool person :)

Liza..
First time I met her was fantastic in Rotterdam and nog a long time later we met again in Utrecht.
After this meeting we met countless and I can only say that I trust her fully and she is always ready for giving me a nice hug back and that I really love to hug.
Anyway everytime I see her i can't resist it to smile and she is together with Jasper one of my best friends.

Nice girl!! A sweet and lovely precence on the Sinterklaas meeting!! Keep showing up!! Where is the next meeting by the way??? Take care!!

Liza is a friendly CS girl in Utrecht that speaks my native language (Swedish) too! :)