About Nienke Krook

About Me

I am a 25 years old Dutch girl that quit her teaching job to travel the world, meet new people, learn, figure it all out and enjoy life! On VoroVoro: 8-28 oct, 2008

Occupation

Elementary / Primary Schoolteacher

Likes

Like-minded people, kids, languages and language-learning, making travelplans, dreaming, and the sun in general...

Dislikes

cold weather, people that get upset about anything, greedy people, my alarmclock, doing work that seems useless or unefficient to me...

Why I Joined

I met a guy in Kyoto, Japan who told me about this paradise island. He talked about VoroVoro as if it was his home and spoke of the people he met there with such love that i had to see it for myself.

Hobbies

Photography, Reading, Writing, Drawing, Painting, Crafting, Learning Japanese, Collecting random stuff, Swimming, Horsebackriding, anything! As long as i'm busy.

Books I Love

Neverending Story (Michael Ende), Sophies World (Jostein Gaarder), all books by Paulo Coelho and Bill Bryson.

Music I Love

Angels&Airwaves, DeathCabForCutie, Eels, Faithless, Feist, FloggingMolly, GavinDeGraw, Greenday, Incubus, JackJohnson, JoshPyke, Linkin'Park, MattCosta, PeteMurray, Plus44, Prodigy, RiloKiley, Sugarcult, Tegan&Sara, Decemberists, ThePresidents, ToriAmos

Films I Love

Amélie, The Butterfly Effect, Être et avoir, Fight Club, Lost in Translation, Into The Wild, Jalla! Jalla!, Léon, Three Kings, Memento, The Rock, Pleasantville, The 5th Element, Con Air, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix

Party Trick

I can shuffle cards with one hand. Oh, and i can juggle! :)

Why Me?

I think i can bring some humour and creativity to the island, i'm not affraid of trying new things, i'm in for a joke and always prepared to learn!!

My Favourite Quote

"There are those who say: 'I'll take care of it when the time comes', when actually it is now that we need to live to the fullest of our abilities"

Website

http://krookodil.blogspot.com