Barbara Janssens's Photo

Unverified Profile

  • Payment not verified
  • Phone not verified
  • Government ID not verified

Maybe Accepting Guests

  • Last login almost 9 years ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Barbara’s full profile.

Overview

  • 2 references
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French; learning Italian, Spanish
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2014
  • Fulltime traveller
  • Master in Socio-Economic Sciences
  • From Leuven, Belgium
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Reaching for the sky. Travelling the world.

ABOUT ME

Full time traveller. Dreamer. Explorer.

PHILOSOPHY

Travelling 9 to 5.

I won't live long enough to do things I don't like.

Reaching for the sky.

Figuring out what I'm passionate about.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to participate in any possible way.

Live it all to the fulliest.

I will be travelling a lot of countries of South East Asie from April onwards, and I hope I can meet a lot of interesting people by the use of couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None! I hope I will have some in some time ;)

Interests

Experiencing
Enjoying an authentic meal
Travelling
Reading
Living

  • cooking
  • wine
  • reading
  • traveling
  • languages
  • study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
- Best for happiness: Buena Vista Social Club
- Makes me thoughtful: Florence + the machine / Gotye
- Bring on the nostalgic things: Les Cowboys Fringants
- Brilliant to wake up: Yann Tiersen
- To watch the stars: Explosions in the Sky

Books:
The list is long. And is always getting longer.
Book that made me laugh the most in 2013: the hundred year old man who climbed out of his window and disappeared

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One amazing thing I have done?

Well, I visited Egypt between the 2 revolutions and was basically alone in Abu Simbel. I think that was quite cool.

I've visited a lot of places in Europe,
went 5 times to Eastern Canada,
had this AMAZING Erasmus experience a couple of years back.

Oh, and I've quit my job to start travelling the world.
And I'm planning not ever to have a 9 to 5 job ever ever again. Never.

Teach, Learn, Share

What do I have to offer?
Hm.

I love cooking. Really. But what I even love more is sharing my culinary talents with other people while sharing a nice meal with a good glass of wine (jup, love wine). So if you offer me a couch, I will offer to cook. Really.

What else? Well, I can talk to you fluently in 3 languages, depending on which one you prefer (english, dutch, french)

I have some econometrics skills. Never mind, nobody wants them ;)

Well, I guess I have a bunch of travel stories to share with anyone who would like to hear them.

What I want to learn?
Well.. The list is waaaaay too long!
I have this kind of bucket list with things I want to learn.
Some of the things are:
Learn how to cook a proper thai meal. And a vietnamese one. An indonese one. Basically, I thing it would be nice if I would learn to cook at least one meal for every country I visit.

On the moment, I'm putting some effort in learning a word of two in Thai, but this effort will probably be in vain.
Other languages on my list: German and Spanish.

Apart from that, I want to learn as much as possible about other cultures, I want to learn how to dive, how to surf, how to drive a Tuktuk, how to say hi in 100 countries and so much more :).

Join Couchsurfing to see Barbara’s full profile.