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Overview

  • 9 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French, German; learning Spanish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • playing music, freelancing, working
  • College-University of Rotterdam (communication&multim...
  • From The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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About Me

Currently traveling... so sorry for not accepting guests... x!

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Im Sander, born and raised in The Hague , The Netherlands (1986). Drop by and I show you around the city, and maybe we'll play some music :)

At the moment I am building a skelter (four wheeled bike) on solar energy, and playing in the theatre, with my theatre group "De Tovenaars" (The Magicians).
Before I played for 5 years in the rock&roll band `Vuigtuig` (which means literally something like 'filthy scum' lol) playing chords & accordeon.

Besides music, I work as a tour leader, traveling mainly to Russia, Mongolia and China. Why there? Well, in 2013 I lived in Xiamen (China), working on the beach with a small company doing water sport activities, and before that during my studies I did my internship in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia).

Some basic slavic language skills also proved to be helpfull on the way, those I learned during my voluntary work from 2005-2007 at 'WijHelpenDaar' a student organisation from Holland who takes care of the subordinated groups in former Yugoslavia.

When I returned from Mongolia I applied for youth ambassadorship, and gained one year of Youth Ambassadorship experience in The Hague; giving advice to several institutes (of the government disctrict) and ngo's in the same workfield.

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"Do everything you can, to be able to do, whatever you want to do"

"Life is a playground, you know that as a kid but somehow along the way everyone seems to forget that..."

"If you go, go completely, otherwise don't even try."

"We are not Equal at all. Though, we are Equivalent to each other"

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Drop by in The Hague, and if I have time I show you around my hometown, make some music, go to some parties, swim in the sea, dance on the seashore, bike around, whatever :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
couchsurfing in china, germany, and continuously surfing at friends around holland, france, croatia, bosnia and herzegovina, serbia and more... (not always with cs website though sorry!)

Interests

Music, Philosophy, Religion, Politics, Drugs, Movies, Books, Traveling, History, Languages, Art, Books, but mainly Stories - lots of stories !!!

  • arts
  • books
  • dancing
  • dining
  • walking
  • partying
  • drinking
  • politics
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • cycling
  • camping
  • surfing
  • sports
  • swimming
  • history
  • languages
  • religion
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music like: SOMA FM (!!!) , Gustavo Santoalalla, The Album Leaf, Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Hooverphonics, Lisa Gerard, Ingrid Michaelson, Iron Wine & Calexico, The Doors, Eels, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Turin Brakes, Gomez, Portishead, PSI Performer, Crash Test Dummies, Orbital, Bjork, Lambchop, Bobby McFerrin, Thomas Newman, Tracy Chapman, Donovan Frankenreiter, Jamie Lidell, Flogging Molly, Lifehouse, Razorlight, Rosenberg Trio, Gipsy Kings, Oi Va Voi, The Motion Trio, Goran Bregovich, and so on...

Movies like; Delicatessen, La Cité des Enfants Perdu, Amelié, MicMac, Sqatsi - Trilogy, Road To Perdition, The Pianist, The Butterfly, Effect, Happiness, Equilibrium, Cidade de Deus, Mysterious Skin, Abre los Ojos, The Doom Generation, Arizona Dream, Black Cat White Cat, and so on...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Getting drunk in the Transsiberian Express, Russia...

Sleeping in a school near Dalantzagad, Mongolia...

Driving to Belgium, Luxembourgh, France, Germany, Denmark, England, Sweden and Norway... with a moped

Working in a Youth Camp near Sarajevo, Bosnia...

Sziget in Budapest, Hungary...

Edge-Walking on the Benevis, Scotland...

Going to a hospital in Xian, China...

and alot more...

Teach, Learn, Share

Sharing Experiences with Drugs and Sexuality ;)

Sharing Experiences with Foundational Work

Sharing Experiences with Events (organisation)

Sharing Experiences with founding and entrepreneuring

Languages like Dutch, English, French, German, Yugoslavian, Russian and Mongolian...

and i find religions also an intesting topic :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Knowledge, Music, Food, Drinks, Drugs, o yeah and Sleeping place ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mongolia, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Mongolia, Netherlands

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