Linthe van Rooij

Hi everyone, 

If you are wondering why a pirate ship is on my profile here, I have a nice story to tell you! 

With this tall ship called the Regina Maris, I sailed around the Atlantic Ocean for six months during my fourth year of high school (I was 16 years old, in 2014/2015). I joined the program called "School at Sea" with 30 other high school students whom I did not know back then. As we learned to run this ship with the 30 of us, we also combined this with our regular school work and a lot of expeditions on shore. For me, this is already nine years ago but it made a lot of impact on me personally and socially that still runs through in my life nowadays. 

Sailing remained one of my hobbies after high school, as I joined a student sailing association in Amsterdam during my bachelor's studies in Psychobiology. As I learned a lot about our behaviour and brain cells, I was a lot on the water in Friesland and Amsterdam as well (and even in Qingdao (China), although that was only once - picture on the left). 

And just some other hobbies of mine: dancing (ecstatic, tango, zumba etc.), painting (by number), snowboarding, playing board games, (going to the) theater, reading, hanging out with friends and playing korfbal, table tennis, spikeball and other sports :).