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Overview

  • 31 references 20 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French; learning Danish, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2014
  • Youth hostel receptionist
  • Comparative literature & Literary theory
  • From Bruges, Flanders, Belgium
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About Me

+ energetic
+ sociable
+ from silly to serious in 3 seconds
+ can't really handle coffee, but drink it anyway
+ tendency to spend all my money on concerts and cd's
+ forget about trying to act like a well-adjusted adult: loudly singing out of key in public is fun

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To me travelling is about exploring. Obviously there's discovering new cities and landscapes, but the most exciting thing to me is gaining a new perspective every trip. Meeting locals makes you go a little further than the typical tourist stuff. Hanging out with someone from a different cultural background is an adventure in itself because it can make you look at things you take for granted in a different way.

Interests

+ art
+ reading fiction
+ movies
+ drawing
+ youth exchanges Erasmus+
+ music festivals
+ playing the piano/bass/ukelele/trumpet
+ shameless dancing

  • arts
  • singing
  • concerts
  • music festivals
  • festivals
  • coffee
  • vegetarian
  • vegan
  • drinking
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • piano
  • trumpet
  • ukulele
  • double bass

Music, Movies, and Books

+ music: some of the best live performances I've seen include Seasick Steve / Patrick Watson / Queens of the Stone Age / MS MR / Newton Faulkner / SBTRKT feat. Sampha / Bonobo / Foals / Explosions in the Sky / Rodrigo y Gabriela / Portishead / St. Paul and the Broken Bones / Xavier Rudd / I Will, I Swear / STUFF. / Mop Mop feat. Anthony Joseph / CHVRCHES / Chet Faker

+ movies: Whiplash / Tystnaden / Kill Bill /Jules et Jim / Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist / Sound of Noise / Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain / Donnie Darko / Babel / Max and Mary

+ books: anything by Jonathan Safran Foer, I'd probably think of his shopping lists as works of art / Toni Morrison: Beloved / Rabelais / Charles Bukowski / Pablo Neruda / Art Spiegelman: Maus / Julian Barnes: A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters / Jerzy Kosinski: The Painted Bird / Raymond Carver: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love / Bruno Schulz: The Street of Crocodiles / Arthur Japin: Een Schitterend Gebrek/ Walter Moers: The 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear

What I Can Share with Hosts

+ I'll play you the theme song of Adventure Time on the ukelele while baking home-made cookies
+ I can be your personal vegetarian (or vegan) chef

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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