Hobbies                   

- Weightlifting!
- gymnastics, sports acro, dance, classical ballet, scuba diving,
- go to shows and musicals and shows, see good movies,
- go on vacation, enjoy nature, learn languages and experience new cultures, travel
- volunteer at big gymnastics& sports acro meets as Europeans and Worlds,
- organize big events,
- acting, performing on stage,
- teach and train others, choreograph exercises, (mainly sports acro exercises) 
- watching good series, gymnastics and sports acro footage,
- be creative (arts and crafts, music, drawing, video and music editing, web design),
- write texts, translate children's literature, work with visual and textual styling
- be lazy
- have good conversations,
- get massages (!) 



Favorite athletes  
               
Gymnasts
Sandra, Dana (ROM), Nastia, Alicia, Shawn (USA)

Retired gymnasts
Stela (ROM), Podkopayeva, Skarupa (UKR), Raducan, Petrovschi, Ban, Comaneci (ROM), Moceanu (USA), Notermans, Moonen (BEL), Loes (NED)

Sports acro teams
Nik & Amber (BEL)

Retired acro teams
Menno & Anissa; Menno & Julie; Charlotte & Seema; Chloé, Tatjana & Florence, Tat & Flo (BEL); Revaz & Anna (RUS); Oliver & Katie (GBR); Girut, Starevich & Motuz (BLR); Loginova, Stroynova & Zinnurova (RUS); Arthur & Sheena (USA); Ivar & Marije; Jeanet & Marlous; Margaretha & Pauline; Ingrid & Nathalie; Maik & Ellen; Chantal, Annelies & Sanne; Jeanet, Manon & Sanne; Christa & Marielle, Paulien, Miranda & Stephanie (NED)

Weightlifters
Armand Teeuwen (NED), Annika & Lena Berntsson (SWE), Ruth Kasirye (NOR), Mona Pretorius (RSA), Pavla Kladivova & Jirka Orsag! (CZE)
 

Favorite music

The music I prefer to listen to the most is... floor exercise music :)

Otherwise I like listening to Malena Ernman, Arash, Ruslana, Bond, (light classical) violin and piano music, instrumental soundtracks and furthermore every song that has a potential of being a floor exercise music piece. :)



Favorite movies

Of course: all sports acro and (elite and college) gymnastics videos.

Then I am totally fond of the typical Cinderella stories, the typical chick flicks, such as:
Step up!; Take the lead; Mean Girls; It takes two!; The wedding planner; Little girls in pretty boxes; Perfect Body; Bring it on!; The Ice princess; The Sound Of Music; Sissi (all three movies - in German);  all Astrid Lindgren movies (in Swedish), my favorites being: Min allrakäraste syster; Madicken; Bullerbybarnen; Rasmus; Nånting levande för lame-Karl and Hoppa högst. B

esides that I liked the  more serious movies like Fucking Åmal; The Color Purple; The Matrix; Hotel Rwanda; Der letzte Zug and A Genious Mind.



Favorite TV series

Gossip Girl (!) is by far the best serie I know...

I like Make it or break it, although it is a bit cheezy & I luv ANTM and all possible versions of other nations I can get my hands on to.

Furthermore I like 'Carnicale', 'Dexter', 'The Unit' and all medical (reality) series; I must say I rarely watch tv.



Favorite writers

J.R.R. Tolkien, Astrid Lindgren, J.K. Rowling, Leon Uris, Ernest Hemmingway, Herman Bang, Roald Dahl, Thea Beckman, Maarten 't Hart, Hector Marlot

The last book I read: academic reading (no fun involved) 'Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management'.


Favorite food                                 

Food that is low-fat and low-cal and that is being prepared for me ( I hate cooking)! I like Dutch food, as in ‘stampot’ (stew), ‘jachtschotel’ (oven dish with potatoes, red cabbage and meat) and other potato based oven meals.

Otherwise I really like the forbidden food: pizza,  lasagna, (milk) chocolate with praline, hazelnuts or crisps, Kinder, pancakes, ‘poffertjes’, bacon&eggs, croissants, deserts, apple pie with warm vanilla sauce and of course: cappuccino and hot chocolate with whip cream. Yum!




Crazy habits        

- I can watch gymnastics videos and sports acro videos ALL DAY LONG.
  It has been a long time that I had time to do that though...
- I am addicted to coffee and chocolate (!)
- I am quite a perfectionist, although you wouldn’t say that sometimes, since I tend
  to lack time in the end of projects, so I don’t have the time to finish things the
  appropriate way (as my teachers well know by now, sigh)
- Worst habit: (confession) you most likely won’t see me coming to talk to you.
  You will have to come to me.


Spoken languages (1-5)    

Dutch (5), Swedish (5), English (5), Danish (4), Norwegian (4), French (3), German (3),
Spanish (1), Romanian (0,3), Russian (0,3)
 

Dreams and goals - weightlifting related

 Become as good as I can get
 Beat National Records √
 Compete at Europeans and Worlds √
 Become a professional athlete.
 Participate in the Olympics

Dreams and goals not all that weightlifting related

Get my Masters degree.
Start my own business
Become very rich and famous. :)
Becoming a bobsleigher besides being a weightlifter


Funny thoughts

Get a part in Gossip Girl. (I like the impossible.)
Get a part in a Lasse Halmström production.
Get accepted at a dance academy & at the conservatorium
(just to know that I could have if I would have)
 
Have a big and nice house in Norway, and possibly a nice little cabin near the coast.
Get to dive in the Galapagos waters, Indonesia, Maldives, Mexico, Curacao, Aruba,
the Great Barrier Reef, and more.
Take  a road trip through Australia and New Zealand
Discover Indonesia
Walk the Inca trail
See the whole of Scandinavia, the Inuit life 
Visit Alaska, the North Pole, and Antarctica