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  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning German, Turkish
  • 42, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Researcher/artist
  • University of Leiden
  • From studied in Leiden!!Grew up in small (unknown :-P) Dutch village
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About Me

ABOUT ME

I am Karin. I grew up in a small village in Holland. I study (or studied :-)) archaeology at the University of Leiden,the Netherlands. I joined excavations in Syria, Egypt, Greece and Turkey. Since 2011 I have been working as a researcher heritage studies at the Netherlands Institute in Istanbul, where I have been living since. There I carry out anthropological research to an Istanbul neighbourhood.

Now I am staying in Athens for 12 days. Would like to meet people for language exchange or just a coffee/beer/ a walk/art activities/NGO activities

PHILOSOPHY

ITHAKA
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don't be afraid of them:
you'll never find things like that one on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon - you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbours you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfumes of every kind -
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.

Ithaka gave you the marvellous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean

Constantine, P. Cavafy

Interests

Learning, meeting people (:-)), writing, drawing/painting, archaeology, anthroplogy, reading, just started learning to play the trumpet, walking, cycling and travelling(of course) There should always be space for dreaming about people, places and pasts.

  • arts
  • writing
  • perfumes
  • beer
  • coffee
  • walking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • painting
  • drawing
  • trumpet
  • cycling
  • language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Secret History by Donna Tart, De Avonden door Reve (most people think it's boring, though :-P), Nooit meer slapen van Hermans, De Donkere Kamer van Damocles, Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Couperus' Eline Vere, I Claudius, De kus van de weduwe, Fightclub, Meester van de Zwarte molen, de torens van Februari, Dances with wolves, the English patient, a Clockwork orange,the grass is singing, Ik droomde Afrika, Afrikaanse nachten, poetry

Movies:
Fight Club, Memento, Sneakers, Out of Africa, American Beauty, Burnt by the Sun, Enemy at the Gates, He Loves me, he Loves me Not, The Talented Mister Ripley, the deer hunter, das Leben der Anderen, the motorcycle diaries, volver, the painted veil, hotel Rwanda, Turks Fruit, The King, the painted veil, Magnolia, Vanilla sky, Ik omhels je met duizend armen, Volver, No country for old men, the shining

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