CURRENT MISSION

To discover the differents cultures from Vancouver to La Paz

ABOUT ME

Hello, I'm Jérôme ! I'm 24. I grow up in Belgium. I'm an easy going and openmind person. If I had to give two words to discribe myself : I would say "serence" and "pro-actif" :-)
I studied political science. Today, I work for the militant network ADES (for Alternatives democratic, ecological and social). I love sports (I do track and field in competition), hiking and the cinema ! I'm feeling a cosmopolit person as a world citizen.

PHILOSOPHY

"Oser du moment que j'ai un moyen de m'en sortir".
"Daring anything if I have the opportunity to get out".

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Now, I want to discover the world. So, I decided to travel for one year around the American continent. I started my travel in Vancouver in October 2012 and I want to finish it in Bolivia at La Paz. My objectives are to learn about differents cultures and differents ways to engage myself in alternatives projects.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had several experience in my own country Belgium and two experiences in Canada. But I "wwoofed" for five month in Canada in 6 different places. So I was hosted and feed by farmers while I worked for them. The wwoofing experience is also awesome because you have time to deep relations with your host usually very interesting. I meet very progressive people but also conservative or extreme religious family : all experiences were fascinating. I worked especially in British Columbia : Abbotsford, Chase, Argenta (Kaslo), Victoria, Salt Spring Island, Duncan...

Centres d'intérêt

- Since I started my trip in Canada, I'm very interested in ecological alternatives : How getting a coherent way of life ? Which society model should we support or design ? And with which social relations between humans ?
- I do athletics competitions since I have 14 years old.
- I looked after teenager in a youth mouvement in Belgium. Now, I coach the new young leader.
- I'm very engaged in the student representation in Belgium.

• design
• running
• coach
• modeling
• meditation
• movies
• traveling
• hiking
• sports
• track and field
• political science
• science
• mountains

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

- I write film chronicles in a magazine of cinema.
Film, Ghost Dog the way of the Samourai, Unforgiven, Midnight in the garden of god and evil, Diarios de Motocycleta, Darwin s nighmare, A perfect world, Dances with Wolves, Robin Hood(with Errol Flyn), The Constant Gardener, Un air de famille, Un long dimanche de fiancaille, le huitieme jour,...
- I love french Hip-Hop and post rock music !
Iam, NTM, Sniper, Hocus Pocus, Disiz, Oxmo Puccino, Keny Arkana, Starflam, Scylla, Kery James, Fonky Family, La Smala, Zebda, MAP,...
Archive, Segur ros, Explosion in the Sky, Goodspeed you Black Empror, Mogwai...
Jacques Brel, Leo Ferret, George Brassens, Michel Polnaref, Claude Nougaro, William Sheller...
- I read about social justice
Axel Honneth, Nancy Fraser, Tim Jackson, John Rawls, Paul Aries, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

- I slept in a snow cave for several nights (while It was - 18 degree Celsius outside) in the Kootenay Joe Mountains near Nelson (Canada-British Columbia).
- I travelled with a criminal under run during 700 km between Nelson and Vancouver. True story ! I'll tell you !
- In Brussels, I filmed a squat where 200 people lived as a third world slum in except that it is in the capital of Europe.
- In Israël, I saw the complexity of the Middle East conflict.
- In Morrocco in the Atlas Montain, I discovered the generosity of Berber populations.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

- I can give some french courses
- I can give some formations about team managment
- I can give some sport trainings
- I'm learning some hand, manual skills : carpentry, sewing, electricity... I would like to learn more about that...
- I'm very interested in meditation, spiritual and self development : I need some people who could help me to discover more about that kind of philosophy

Pays que j'ai visités

Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Morocco, Palestine, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Belgium, Spain