ABOUT ME Have been trekking on and off again for the past 20 years. Have been around Europe, America (North & South), Asia & Africa. I'm pretty chilled out, enjoy kicking back with a beer and a chat (politics, sport or anything) My apartment is ten minutes from the city via train with bus connections to Coogee Beach.
Update October 2023: Hakuna Matata Thanks for visiting my profile. I was born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, but have been living abroad since 2014. I would say that I am still on a personal quest to find out whether I can have significant positive impact on the world. As Jesus said: "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." I am very aware of how entitled my life has been so far and also grateful for the abilities that I am blessed with, mainly my brain and character. I recently finished my PhD at JCU in Townsville studying the adaptive capacity of the Reef tourism industry to extreme climate events like coral bleaching and tropical cyclones. I'm currently working as a postdoc at JCU in Cairns, investigating the human dimensions of large-scale Great Barrier Reef restoration projects. I also teach a systems thinking and system dynamics course at Ateneo University de Manila in the Philippines. Before my PhD, I've worked at a risk management company in Norway to forecast the world's energy transition from now until 2050 (see https://eto.dnvgl.com) and am the founder of an advisory company (see www.dynamundo.com), which has the goal to promote the application of systems thinking to help policy makers and companies make better decisions in complex environments. The Russian explorer and painter Nicholas Roerich (check out his paintings!) serves as my inspiration. He believed that work purified our life, that a man must work and through the work he will solve his daily problems and move onto the next stage of evolution
I'm an alien monkey from a faraway galaxy—stranded on Earth. Unlike earthling monkeys, I don’t usually throw shit at people, so please don't do that in my house. However, I WILL give you shit if you're one of these: "I need a place to stay to save money while traveling" Here's a list of homeless shelters in Sydney: https://tinyurl.com/ytz8vtts "I love food / I'm a foodie / I want to try all the restaurants" I have zero interest in you as a person. "Let's go to a club / pub / dancing / drinking" No. "Hello beautiful soul / Good vibes" Please, detonate now. Anyone else, you can keep reading.
I will be making my first trip overseas since COVID happened. While my country was in lockdown I started learning Spanish to pass the time. But I wasn't consistent with the learning process. I decided to go to Colombia and Central America because I heard about them as most of my teachers were from these countries . I enjoy exercising, riding my bike, taking local transport, meeting locals, buying street food, immersing myself in the culture and going to local markets.
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