CURRENT MISSION Dream and achieve. ABOUT ME I'm crazy twice a year, unfortunately it lasts six months. Likes the nice things in life : tasty restaurant (or home made food) & traveling : meeting new cultures & people, and new experiences. I attend art-galleries, theatres and concerts (preference for classical music). I studied in the past clarinet, a bit of church organ and sang in a choir (bass). People say that I am respectful, confident, honest, easy going, loyal, friendly, considerate and optimistic person, kind and curious, decent, good sense of humor (at least my friends tell me). YES : my moustache is real :-) PHILOSOPHY - Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm : go, go, GO !! - If life gives you lemon, make lemonade.
Interested in Art
Fluent in Dutch
Learning Arabic (Gulf)
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I offer a couch ! My city is an alternative place to stay for Brussels (30-35 min by train) : if you would be in Brussels, it might take you longer to go to the city center by bus / tram / train / metro, depending on where you are and have to be. Traintable on the railway website Tienen is known for : - it's sugar factory (Sugarmuseum) - the yearly local rock music festival (Sugarrock) - museum ('t Toreke) : Gallo-Roman tresors. In the next village : - the brewery of the famous beer called "Hoegaarden" - The Gardens of Hoegaarden COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Danced tango with Simona, dans-café BaO in Brussels - 11 aug 2011 Brussels CS summer event 2011 : Intro to Latino dances conducted by Dimitri, danced with Sara - 11 jul 2011 Iranian film 'Safar' and panel debate, organized by Karolina - 14 dec 2010 Tango evening 2 : for beginners @ Dimitri's - 20 nov 2010 Citywalk in Gent with Eva - 19 nov 2010 Tea & Taart on Sunday @ Katrien - 14 nov 2010 Petit marathon de tango @ Magic Mirrors Brussels organized by Thierry - 13 nov 2010 Cultural Sunday : IRAN (Film+Food) @ Nazanin - 7 nov 2010 Language exchange meeting @ Ulla - 7 nov 2010 Brussels Museum Nocturnes with Michel - 4 nov 2010 Tango evening : intro for beginners @ Dimitri's - 16 oct 2010 CS meeting in Eupen with Michel - 9 oct 2010 Language exchange meeting @ Marit - 8 oct 2010 Mimi's Farewell Party - Potluck Event @ Hetram's - 2 oct 2010 CS meeting Leuven - 23 sept 2010 The first hosting is a fact : Glenys ! 5 sept 2010 - I'm new to this...experienced already a lot positive vipes. Would love to fill out the entire box. So please help me with this :-)
Music, Movies, and Books
Music : classical music background "I did it my way" - Frank Sinatra Astor Piazolla
Teach, Learn, Share
I can tell you about restoration of books, and the travel experiences I had in the past. I like to know more about psychology and people with art passion. Started dancing tango since sept 2010 (still adicted to it) & started the first lessons salsa (but stopped, in favor of tango).
My Interests
- art (in particular restauration of paper & books, bookbinding) - reading (mostly articles on various subjects : science, economy, psychology, poems as well) - music (played clarinet & organ long time ago). - tango : started to learn dancing since sept 2010 - salsa : first steps - discover other cultures and learn about their habits.
