CURRENT MISSION

Learn something new and usefull everyday

ABOUT ME

We live in Delft, really close to the city center.
Next week we'll be back from Chalon-dans-la-rue in France and we'll start hosting again.

Permaculturalist and vegetarian.

PHILOSOPHY

Leave the world in a better way than I found it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meeting, Learning, Sharing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing is a great way to meet people from different cultures, to learn and explore.

Interests

Earth and wellbeing of it. Art and especially modern art; as it often is a mirror for the state of the culture it originates from. People. History. Permaculture. Plants. Music. Altered states of mind.

• arts
• culture
• modern art
• vegetarian
• drinking
• socializing
• music
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Nietzsche, Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance / Lila, Thomas pynchon - Gravity Rainbow. Tom Wolfe - Kool Aid Acid Test. George Orwell - 1984, Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange, Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel and many others, i read a lot.

Movies:

Looking forward to samsara by Fricke!

While making this list I notice I like surreal movies, worlds just painted a little different, worlds with a weird edge..
David Lynch: Eraserhead, Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Wild at heart,
Microcosmos, Baraka.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet: Amelie and Un long dimanche de fiançailles,
Micheal Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and La Science des rêves (The Science of Sleep),
Movies by Darren Aronofsky: Requiem for a Dream, Pi and The Fountain.
Fight Club, 12 Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, American Beauty..
and many others

And i just love music. No point in making a list here it would get to extensive.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I love the Atacama desert.

Teach, Learn, Share

Aha this is nice, I hope I don´t forget but I will try to update this with stuff I learned from people I met thru couchsurfing:

In the soilpoor sandground of the Mata Atlantika, bromelia´s fallen leaves account for only a fraction of all the fallen leaves. They are accountable for more than 33% of the soil nutrition though.

Brincadeira is a great Portugese word to know.

1 Swedish mile is 10 kilometers.

25 May, besides being a national holiday in Argentina is also international Towel day.

The answer to life, the universe, and everything = 42

The Atacama desert in the north of Chili is the driest place on earth.

Argentina owns its name to Pedro de Mendoza, who found silver on the indegeous people living on the banks of the Rio plata (which he named ;) ). There was no more sliver to be found here though and it is thought that silver already present was from a previous expedition.

2008 was the international year of sanitation. Loads of people in the world live in place without sanitation and open sewers, creating a big health risk where a lot of people are living close to each other. Look here for more info: http://esa.un.org/iys

Huasca is the Quechua word for Vine. Aboriginals wouldn`t always drink the river water in the Amazon jungle, but vines they could identify as a huasca contained drinkable water. All they had to do was cut it, and water would come flowing down. Ayahuasca is such a vine, the complete translation is ¨vine of the dead¨.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Laos, Northern Ireland, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands

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