Living without home

This week Mariska and I are going to start a great advancer. Living without our home for the next five days (4 nights). We came up with this experiment because we were looking for the answers to the next questions:

Can we create the feeling of a community without an actual physical community? Can we create a home together without our physical home? How would it feel to travel with your needs everywhere?

What do we need in these days? What are the advantages and the disadvantage of living without your home? What will it do to you physically and mentally?

The rules:

• We will sleep 4 nights in a row at somebody else his home.

• For every night we must find a new host.

• We are not allowed to go home while we are in this experiment.

• We must eat at somebody’s place. Try to have breakfast (, lunch) and dinner.

• We will post a daily blog online.

I am really exited wat the results will be at the end. Even though I am still home now and I haven’t even start the experiment. It get me a bit nervous at the same time.

Written on: 11-12-2017

My first night, Finding everything together and figuring out what I had to take with me and how to take it with me was pretty complicated. I really did not want to leave my home at the beginning. I had the feeling that I would not come home for three weeks instead of five days.

After packing my things and eliminating the things that were not very necessary, I went to my friend Zoë with a bottle of wine. Because of the snow, the bike was not an option. It was a nice cozy short evening and we went to bed quickly. In de morning, after having showered and a nice breakfast I went back home to pick up my bike (coming home felt really strange because I wanted to walk inside to dump some stuff). I went to the library to study in the morning. This afternoon I am going to Dieke a friend in Arnhem and tonight I spend the evening with Mariska. I still have to find a place to sleep for tonight..

Written on: 12-12-2017

My second night,

I traveled from Arnhem back to Zwolle together with Mariska. We had dinner together at Brasserie Jansen, because we had both a sleeping address where we could not go to until 10 o'clock. So we were filling up that time together. After dinner we split up and cycled separately to our own sleep address.I slept in a house from three of my friends. All three of them where making up my bed and making sure that I had a good night sleep. The next morning we had a quick breakfast with the four of us and cycling together to ArtEZ.

Written on: 13-12-2017 ​

Third night,

This night I was a guest at Asleys place. I had an appointment at 5 O’clock so I couldn’t join dinner with her family. The where super gentle to save me some leftovers so that I could enjoy their dinner anyway. After eating we contacted Mariska, Xiaomin and Goisia to ask if they wanted to meat for a drink. They said yes, so we cycled towards the city center where we meted ad a bar. It was a nice bonding night.

I slept much better than the last two nights, but still woke up very tired. My energy level is even lower as yesterday and during breakfast I had a big feeling of going home. Mariska and I would sleep at Fenne tonight. Unfortunately, we both received a message in the morning that it was no longer possible due personal circumstances. Now we must set up a search for a new host address. I noticed that I was feeling very disappointed. Even if I did go home nobody would be there. That gave me a feeling of loneliness. It seems like home alone without Pelle does not feel complete. I hope that I can focus well, despite my low energy and all distractions at school.

After creating several knew sleeping options, they failed before we could even think of deciding. It was getting later and later, we were both exhausted after a long day at school. At five o clock in the afternoon we decided to eat and sleep at my place. This gave us the opportunity to study some more, eat healthy whatever we would feel like and relax for a bit. It was a nice night and I really enjoyed it.

Written on: 14-12-2017