CURRENT MISSION

Learn Czech

ABOUT ME

I just moved to Brno to do a language course of Czech. Before that, I was on the road for 1,5 years and in the prehistory I was studying two years of art (painting, drawing and photography) and for sure it was an interesting time, but "art education" became more and more frustrating and a restlessness grew to explore the world for myself, so I decided to take some years (?) off to travel and learn this way. I really love being on the move and from time to time working on farms (wwoof) or seasonal work to earn for more travels. I grew up in the city but feel more and more a need to be close to nature, especially mountains. I love listening to people (and animals), wild camping, sitting around campfire, listening to people's music, walking, going to cafés, alternative cinemas, conferences, concerts, museums, dumpster diving, hitchhiking,... And on the farms cleaning stables is my favorite, but also milking, feeding, hugging cows, cutting wood,... :) I'm concerned about the mess some multinationals, politicians,... are making. Power to the small farmers!

PHILOSOPHY

Enjoy life

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very good! I surf and host and meet fantastic people!

Interests

I love cows, nature, music, agriculture, films, camp fires, art, boardgames, like chess, languages, spontaneity, people, goats, cats and sheep, .... but I'm also interested in history, politics, societies,... There are little projects sprouting everywhere in Brussels (and all cities) like collective gardens (jardins collectives), 'guest tables' (tables d'hôtes) dishes made with 'wasted' food for free contribution, and transition towns, guerila gardening, etc. These initiatives make me optimistic, instead of just listening to the news and become cynical and pessimistic... :)

• cats
• arts
• concerts
• walking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• dumpster diving
• music
• camping
• agriculture
• history
• languages
• psychology
• sociology
• hitchhiking
• wwoof
• nature
• cows

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Into the wild, Frances Ha, Laurence Anyways, Die Wand, Women without Men, Stalker, Jin-Roh, Howl's moving castle, Khadak, Wendy and Lucy, Le Quattro Volte, Waltz with Bashir, Transylvania, Sürü, Les Brodeuses, Dekalog, Todo sobre mi madre, Tabu, Let the right one in, Auf der andere Seite, Seven Samurai, After Life, In the mood for love, Zatoichi, Riparo, V for Vendetta, and many many more, and documentaries

Music: The Doors, Burzum, Drudkh, Maok, David Bowie, Lebanon Hanover, Moriarty, Lao Che, Ween, Thin White Rope, Vejopatis, Giriu Dvasios, Austra, Trust, The Knife, Fever Ray, Joy Division, Opale, Dikanda, November Növelet, Soham, Brian Eno, Beirut, Aimee Mann, Kapela ze wsi Warszawa, Nujabes, Ihab Tawfik, Devendra Banhart, O'Tchalaï, Orchestra Baobab, Trio Mandili, H.F. Thiefaine, Erik Satie, classical music, a lot of ethnic and east european folk music, live music around a camp fire or sometimes in cozy café or on the street, and much more

Books: A Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks, Lettres du Caucase by Philippe Herbet, Te voet naar Jeruzalem by Sebastien De Fooz, Some stories by Gogol, Metamorphosis of Kafka, Catcher in the Rye by Salinger, The Duncton saga by Wiliam Horwood, Paul Auster, Harry Potter, Atlas and dictionnaries and graphic novels by Shaun Tan,... Skim, Thorgal (Rosinski-Van Hamme), etc. I love books but I don't read so much, maybe later.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wwoofing
Hitchhiking
Rainbow gathering
Grape picking
Helping sheep with lambing
Dumpster diving
And other simple things
Actually the stories behind

Teach, Learn, Share

I definitely would love to learn more about growing vegetables,
And everything related to self-sufficient farming
About nature
Culture
Languages

Could teach you my knowledge in these fields,
the languages I know,
Drawing, painting

Share food, experiences and stories!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, drawings, recipes, food, a stone or shell,....

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland