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Overview

  • 77 references 42 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French, Polish, Russian; learning Spanish
  • 44, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • teacher Polish and Russian and Dutch
  • east-european languages and cultures (Russian / Polish)
  • From Ghent, Flanders, Belgium
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Never stop meeting new people! You can learn so much!

ABOUT ME

international- and cultural-minded, expressive, adventurous

PHILOSOPHY

Difficult question. Didn't find an answer yet, I suppose. Try to work on it. I still have to improve myself and my lifestyle to live a more meaningful life.

Please read my profile and answer my question. I will not answer to any couchrequest if it doesn't include an answer to my question.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like meeting new people, helping travelers and hosting people. It's very interesting to meet people from all over the world, exchange culture and experiences. I've been couchsurfing in Madrid / Argentina and Chile / Russia and Ulaanbaatar it was fantastic!
I'm looking for Spanishspeaking and Russianspeaking people to practice. I would like to help people who are new in Brussels and want to start a new life in Brussels. I prefer single travelers who stay for more than one day, but that doesn't mean that I don't accept more people and even one night is possible. If you write me a couchrequest, it means that you want to exchange something, learn something, have some kind of relationship with me and you don't want only a free place to sleep.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm hosting a lot of people and I really love it! I've been couchsurfing in Kyrgyzstan in Bishkek, which was very nice and I join the couchsurfingmeetings in Brussels, which are also very nice! I had a very nice guide in Finnish Lapland, who showed me around during a weekend. Couchsurfing in Madrid / Argentina / Chile / Russia / Lima (Peru) and Ulaanbaatar.

Interests

languages, traveling, theatre, literature

  • culture
  • literature
  • concerts
  • festivals
  • walking
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • camping
  • skiing
  • basketball
  • swimming
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: The return, soleil trompeur, Dekalog (Kieslowski), Hable con ella (Almodovar), Depuis qu'Otar est parti, In the name of the father, No man's land, Kolya ..., La vie de courgette, Manchester by the sea
books: Independent people (Halldor Laxness), Sandor Marai : gloed, A little life, The woman from above, On Chesil Beach

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

night in a medressa at one of the most beautiful squares on earth / horse-riding in rain and snow in Kyrgyzstan / drinking 'kymys' with Kyrgyz nomads/ sunrise in Khiva / eating a sheep at the holy lake / swimming in Son Kul / Iceland (Litlanesfoss, Jokulsarlon, Laki, Landmannalaugar, puffins, a whale) / being on the top of a mountain and feeling yourself so small / Shaman festival in Olchon (lake Baikal) and lost on the island Olchon and finally saved by drunken Russians / taxi driver with one hand in Buchara, mountain Ararat, Saint-Petersburg, Valaam, Kizhi, new year's eve in Saint-Petersburg on the street : temperature -33, made on old and poor Russian 'babushka' happy by going to a concert of her favorite singer, snow walks in a Russian forest with sunshine and blue sky, skiing and swimming at night with moonlight,Russian winter basketball camp with severe regime, training outside by -20 in a forest without anything, walking on the frozen Finish Golf, swimming in icecold water, ...
dogsledsafari (huskytour) in Finnish Lapland
hosting couchsurfers :)
Salar de Uyuni and lagunas in Bolivia
bears and whales in Alaska
Baltoro glacier trekking in Karakorum mountains (Pakistan)

Teach, Learn, Share

I like learning about other cultures. Couchsurfing is not just about a place to sleep. It's about exchange. I would like to learn a lot from other couchsurfers! What is couchsurfing for you? What does it mean to you? What do you want to share and learn?

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can tell you something about Belgium, Poland and Russia and about traveling.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Poland, Russian Federation

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