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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning German, Russian, Slovene, Western Frisian
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Physical Education Teacher
  • Central Institute of Physical Education
  • From Leeuwarden, Netherlands
  • Profile 80% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Traveling across Russia

ABOUT ME

almost all of my friends are either settling down, getting married, having children, focused on there career, or have the same daily routine every day of the week.

me??, None of the above:)

broke up with my girlfriend, quit my job, gave up everything, grabbed my savings and just started traveling.

Love Russia, studied the language for the first month, after that just traveled, visiting places, meeting people and having a awesome time

PHILOSOPHY

everywhere i am, i am at home

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none, i am a total newbie:)

Interests

martial arts, yoga, surfing, dancing, motorcycles, traveling, culture, people, going out, enjoy life

  • arts
  • culture
  • dancing
  • yoga
  • motorcycles
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • surfing
  • martial arts

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

that's difficult, i have been lucky enough to have many amazing experiences, if you want to know..just ask :-)

Teach, Learn, Share

Ten Rules for Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."

4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.

6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."

7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. You will forget all this.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation

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