::: UPDATE :::

Currently living in South Africa with my beautiful girlfriend and little baby boy. I'm a little bit out of CS rotation until we have space!

CURRENT MISSION

"Man reist nicht um anzukommen, sondern um zu reisen." - Johann Wolfgang van Goethe.

ABOUT ME

Student Dutch language. Music journalist. Writing for a regional newspaper. Head editor of 3VOOR12 Friesland: Alternative music related newsplatform. Organizer of a number of festivals, concerts, parties. Traveller, coffeedrinker, beerdrinker, smoker, reader, adventurer, musicfestivaljunkie, writer, poet..

Currently sharing my stories from be on the road with the internets. Pardons for the fact that it's in Dutch, but Google could help you out:

PHILOSOPHY

Do you wanna live like common people?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfing is an unique way to meet new people and discover cultures. The philosophy of 'home sweet home' definitely counts for travelling with CouchSurfing on your mind. My couch is available and my intention is to surf as much couches as possible. We must travel, because we can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted:
Sveta Selivanova - Angarsk, Russia.
Helena Machová and friends - Olomouc, Czech Republic
David van Dokkum & Marion Boulicault - Chapel Hill, North Carolina .
John Rbeiz - Beirut, Lebanon.
Surfed: Evgenia Tsvirko - Minsk, Belarus.
Samaneh Zand - Shiraz, Iran.
John Rbeiz - Beirut, Lebanon.
Ana Dragic - Belgrade, Serbia.
Kenneth Means - Oslo, Norway.
Stephan Hammar - Gothenburg, Sweden.
Timo Wulff - Emden, Germany.
László Gazdag - Budapest, Hungary.
Emre Genc - Istanbul, Turkey.
Ahmed Bastawi - Aswan, Egypt.
Pawel Huk - Isiolo, Kenya.
David Louch - Durban, South Africa.

Interests

Life.

• writing
• concerts
• festivals
• partying
• traveling
• music
• alternative music
• adventure races
• journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: http://www.last.fm/sierd12345
Movies: Anything. From Tarantino to arthouse.
Books: Mostly Dutch literature.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Taking a dive from a high rock in a river in Northern-Iraq. As two Kalashnikov gunmen look at me with enviousness in their eyes I realize that all people have their fears. And that we are all equal, no matter what your weapon of choice is.

Teach, Learn, Share

Clumsy, but socially and linguistically developed. Bizarrely interested in (alternative) music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Namibia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Netherlands, South Africa