From an early age on, I've always been interested in many different things. I loved reading books when I was little, but also playing with lego, searching for four leaf clovers (I found hundreds of those over the years) and painting. I played with Barbie dolls and made clothes for them, but I had just as much fun playing with toy cars, and though I'm quite a peaceful person, I've always found swords and bows and arrows highly appealing.

My current activities are more numerous than those I've dedicated a page of my website to. Besides aikido and running I also practice aquarobics, and apart from cooking, writing poetry and playing the games of the GIPF project, I also enjoy reading, playing roleplaying games, crocheting and occasionally a bit of carpentry.

There's also quite a number of hobbies I used to practice and that I would like to start again some day. Some of the things I'd like to get back to are ballroom dancing, squash, making clothes, judo and inline skating.