Hi there!

My name is Marie , I’m a 25 year old grown up girl from Belgium and I'll be traveling & sort of working in several countries in South-Eastern-Europe. You could see it as a break , take some playtime , or just another way to spend time on this lovely planet with so much things to see, things to do and people to meet.

More about Marie = = = >

DID YOU KNOW that I ….
- quit my job to go traveling and have some work experiences
- wanted to be a doctor or nurse
- have some friends who are 60 years and older
- need to dance to feel alive
- enjoy cloud formations
- calm down on top of a mountain or a high building
- like to wonder about in a forest
- am curious for new food and drinks
- have a perfect couch myself back in Ghent

SOCIAL OPEN APPROACH // CONNECTING PEOPLE
(volunteering, hospitality and youth work)
- Profound interest in various personalities, ages, stories, …
- All for group harmony and joking around
- Learning from each other by sharing knowledge and experience
- Bringing out the best of each person

CULTURE AND NATURE they
- Motivate me
- Keep me surprising and experience new things
- Show me a lot of variation
- Bring people together
- Combine the smallest expression and the bigger picture
- Affect my body and mind
- Both are very present in a new social economy
- Learn me about harmony and tolerance

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

- Evolved from sleeping in hostels to searching last moment for a place to stay with locals (during hikes, in a store, at village festivals , sometimes door to door)
- Like meeting people ( but no worries I'm not clingy)
- Worked in a popular restaurant and liked to give tourists tips coming from a local
- Budgetwise interesting because I'm traveling for several months

Interests

• arts
• culture
• dancing
• traveling
• hiking
• food
• film
• craft beer
• meeting new people
• vegetarian cooking
• clouds
• working
• chance
• old people
• variation

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC : no favorites, to hard to choose

BOOKS (most of them are comedy and tragedy) :
- A fraction of the Whole (Steve Toltz)
- How the world perfectly functions without me ( Joost Vandecasteele)
- Eating Animals ( not so fun to read but had a big impact)

FILMS:
- Black Cat White Cat
- Birdman
- Mary Poppins ( nostalgia)
- Holy Motors
- Land of the Enlightened
- Hero
- Greed
- Spirited Away
- Donnie Darko
- La meglio Gioventu
- Purple Rose of Cairo
... and so on and so on ....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Taken the decision to quit my job with perfectly nice and funny colleagues, good pay, tremendous caring boss, close by where I live, flexible hours, ... cause I'm in the perfect situation to travel, work several jobs and meanwhile experimenting with making a human interest project

Teach, Learn, Share

- fold your tongue in waves
- simple massage trick with your knuckles
- marketing ideas

What I Can Share with Hosts

- laughs
- cooking food
- tips on my hometown Ghent ( food, drinks, party, visiting, sleep, ...)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland