CURRENT MISSION Keeping it simple... ABOUT ME I'd like to combine work and travel, and have sofar been pretty lucky doing just that. I've traveled to the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, worked in Africa and Asia. Lived most recently in India and Singapore, and am now looking for a place to settle down (hopefully New Zealand!). :-) I love the work I'm doing and hope to keeping doing it until the end of days. Would love to work a bit more with trees though in future. PHILOSOPHY Live light, live simple. Breathe, smile and move slowly... The more you take, the less you become...
Interested in Hiking
Interested in Traveling
Fluent in English
Learning German
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE My first couchsurfing experience was with a wonderful couple on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. I couldn't have been more fortunate! I'm hoping there will be many more of these encounters. It's a great way to meet people and find out about the local ins & outs.
Music, Movies, and Books
Books: "Guns, germs & steel" (Jared Diamond) is a favourite as is "Sapiens" by Yuval Harari and "The Hidden Life of Trees" by Peter Wohlleben. Music: 70's, 80's 90's music. Movies: As It Is In Heaven, Emma's Bliss, Ex_Machina, Her, I Daniel Blake, The Eagle Huntress, Racing Extinction, Suffragette, The Broken Circle Breakdown.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Installing solar systems in the remotest corners of India and the Pacific, Swimming with sea turtles in Hawaii and seeing them lay eggs on a beach in Sri Lanka. Working in South-Sudan for MSF, one of the most remote places on earth I've ever been to.
Teach, Learn, Share
https://www.facebook.com/josvandenakker
What I Can Share With Hosts
Hopefully a good conversation about life and the universe! :-)
My Interests
Traveling (of course!), hiking in the mountains, drinking rooibos tea with honey and installing solar panels.
