CURRENT MISSION breathe ABOUT ME Canadian with Dutch roots who just moved to London to start a PhD. Though I spend too much of my time studying/working, my spare time finds me traveling, hiking, cycling, reading, and pubbing it with friends. PHILOSOPHY I take a pretty relativistic view of things and don't tend to get too hung up on fundamentals. That's not to say I don't have my standards though. I try my best to live sustainably and promote friendliness, open access, and communal values in whatever place I'm in.
Interested in Books & Literature
Interested in Cycling
Fluent in English
Learning French
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I've hosted a number of different people from different places and have had the favour returned as well. Recently started going to CS meetups, which are a lot of fun. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Wouldn't want to undermine all my other experiences by privileging one:)
Music, Movies, and Books
Tom Robbins, Stereolab, REM, Daft Punk, Tolkien, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Radiohead, Bjork, Kurt Vonnegut, Pink Floyd, Milan Kundera, Leonard Cohen, Umberto Eco, Iain Banks, Frank Herbert, Yeats.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Hiked the West Coast Trail in Pacific Rim National Park on British Columbia's Pacific Coast.
Teach, Learn, Share
I'm doing MA research at the University of Amsterdam related to the history of what is often called Western esotericism, so I have some knowledge of the weird and wacky.
My Interests
Photography, writing, travel, cycling, mythology, history, politics, popular physics, literature, Sci-Fi, music, (good) TV.
