🎓🌍 Interview with Savi2024 🎸👧🏻

Interview with @Savi2024 12.02.2025

Thank you very much @Savi2024 that I can interview you AGAIN!! 🙏🙏 We LOST the first part of the interview because Parsaa uploaded it on the forum but when he deleted his account everything was deleted too. So here are 5 NEW questions of Part 1 and I hope that you like them! If you dont want to answer a question that is of course not a problem!! 😇 Thank you very much for your time!! 😊😊

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1: How long have you been a member and do you like PPG?

My registration dates back about 4-5 months. Apparently that makes me a "Casual member" according to the new labels of this site. The label is actually a good match with my irregular online appearance which is always subject to family life and rather volatile and often demanding work commitments.

I have to admit that my social media footprint is utmost limited. In the past I used to be a member of the former TravBuddy website which was a good platform for exchanging travel tips. I used to have a similar membership on a guitar website for gear info and tone chasing suggestions. This penpal site seems to combine a broader spectrum of topics. The forum is also an appealing feature (notably the PPG University where I was invited to take the virtual microphone once by Christine).

2: Are your family members also on PPG?

My wife is active on other social media sites and is able to navigate the virtual spider web much better than me. I will confine my activities to this site and a possible new venture may be online language learning (Latin American Spanish).

The other members of my family are our daughters of 4 and 8. Their access to social media is limited to a DIY crafts and drawing page on my wife's Instagram. Drawing an innocent looking insect does not seem to be a perilous online activity.

3: On your travel map you have a LOTTT of places that you visited. Which is the nicest?

Prior to the birth of our daughters the most vivid memories all originated in nature and amongst wildlife. There is nothing that can describe the feeling of floating in a mokoro in the breath taking Okavango Delta in Botswana, trailing a female leopard in a single jeep for hours in the densely bushed Moremi, eating lunch in our vehicle on (literally) arm's length distance of playing hyena pups in Kruger and witnessing the dramatic landscapes of Patagonia in Argentina. At present, we do not travel in the absence of our daughters. We firmly believe that these moments are to be shared together as a family. Amazing memories were created in places like Brazil, Uzbekistan, Australia and Mongolia.

4: Did you study law in The Netherlands?

In contrast to students of other academic disciplines, the majority of law students are geographically limited in their expertise. Students in e.g. organic chemistry or mathematics are exploring universal principles and global governing dynamics. Lawyers are often confined to their jurisdictional (often: national) cage. I have studied Dutch law and also did a research master in English law. This made sense as international finance transactions and restructurings are often subject to English law.

The privilege to also study law at the oldest university in the English speaking world provided a unique experience. Steeped in old traditions dating back to Henry VIII and JRR Tolkien (and others), the university engulfs students with much more than just plain academic pursuits. It was a formative excursion which provides lifelong mental nutrition.

5: What parenting tip do you have for other members on PPG?

If a child is in despair - even if it concerns something minor - take it seriously. Remain patient and create a climate where there is no hesitation for a child to talk and where he/she feels safe and secure to do so. In the worst case scenario you have created an atmosphere of trust. Remain diligent and committed to keep earning their trust and never take it for granted as ancillary to parental control.

Thank you very much for the first part of this interview @Savi2024!! 🥳🥳 If anybody wants to ask a question or post a comment you can do that here! ⬇️⬇️

These are pictures that belong to the first part of the interview (i searched online for the places mentioned)!!

Okavango Delta:

Moremi

Patagonia:

Oxford (i found out is the oldest university that was mentioned 😛)

Thank you very much for your time and efforts Yue in finding such nice pictures as visual support. When I was initially asked by Parsa to be interviewed (several months ago just after signing up), I feared something similar to a sacrificial ritual of a chosen new member.

I also must admit that I have never been interviewed before by such young and talented journalists (this is not something that I expected to encounter on a penpal site). The experience has been delightful so far!

Nice to read about you @Savi2024 also nice you enjoying live with your wife and children .

Many thanks Fleurke. There is no greater luxury in life!

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6: You said in the first part of the interview and on your profile that you play electric guitar. Is everybody now super deaf from your family? Or not so much? And what kind of music do you like to play?

Nobody in my family is “super deaf” and our relationship with our direct neighbours is still pleasant (no underlying resentment for loss of hearing). 🙂 There are a lot of options to play at “conversational volume” by using amp simulations and other digital solutions. I do prefer to play on tube amps and in that case cranking up the volume brings the most organic sound. Whenever everybody is out, I pretend that our house is a large stadium where huge Marshall cabinet stacks are permitted.

I prefer to play Blues Rock and higher gain music. It is a great hobby (my family may disagree).

7: Do your daughters and wife play music?

My daughters are intrigued by my pedalboard with shining lights and knobs which they should not touch (but they do). My oldest daughter will start playing piano this year. My youngest one is a born drummer (looking at her behaviour we need a solid drum kit and reconsider our personal property insurance coverage).

8: Where should Parsaa and I travel to if @Etienne (he is the boss of PPG) gives me a lot of money?

Both you and Parsa seem bright young minds. With funding of “the boss” you would be travelling to a prestigious university (Oxford would be a good idea) to nurture your insatiable appetite for knowledge! Investing in your education – of course not necessarily at Oxford but at any advanced educational temple – is the best investment that you can ever make in your life. To recover I hope that there are still some funds left for an exotic getaway to properly digest all new knowledge and to reboot the inner flow of energy.

9: Where do you want to travel to if @Etienne gives you money too? 😛

Well, that would be most gratefully received. I will share my details in a private conversation with Etienne. But all jokes aside, as a family we would like to visit Jalapao in Brazil. Look at google images and you will instantly see why.

If I can initiate a venture with a small group of co-idiots (not safe for my family), I would like to go to Erta Ale in Ethiopia (a volcano with a huge permanent lava lake). The current situation in the northern part of the country makes a trip in the near future unrealistic. But perhaps in a couple of years this may change.

10: Which book do you like the most and why?

There are too many books to recommend (and too few books on earth to read). I am currently reading 'Capital and Ideology' of Thomas Piketty (eye opening, but rather extreme in some views). Other books which are must reads include 'In the Light of What We Know' by Zia Haider Rahman and 'The Silk Roads: A New History of the World' by Peter Frankopan.

Thank you very much @Savi2024 for this second part of the interview!! 😊😇 If anybody wants to ask a question or post a comment you can do that here! ⬇️⬇️

I looked online and i hope that these are nice photos for the last part of @Savi2024's interview:

Jalapao:

Erta Ale: