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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Live! Laugh! Love!
ABOUT ME
I'm a smiley, social culture lover with a special interest in film, photography and dancing. I love meeting friends, going out and looking for new impulses on a regular basis. This need for new impulses is the source of numerous adventures I've experienced. So far the positive part. Negative characteristics? I think too much sometimes. But apart from that I tend to be easy-going, relaxed and very happy to get to know you somewhere around the globe ;)
PHILOSOPHY
If there is nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire! Make every day count, only expect the unexpected, live and love the moment!
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I live in a cute house in the centre of Ghent, I love my city and I'd love to share some unofficial facts and figures with you over coffee, beer or jenever.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Few but positive experiences so far.
Brussels.
- My first CS experience. Met a CSer staying at my friend's place. We showed him around town and had some beers together. Great afternoon!
London.
- Surfed Nike's couch one night with my friend Tatiana. We went to a local pub with Nike's flatmate, had great conversations there, laughed a lot!
- Surfed Jean Marc's couch one night with Tatiana. We were promptly invited to a CS dinner and went to a great pub concert afterwards. Great sunday night!
- Surfed Swag's couch two nights with Caroline. Going out, getting lost, having fun!
Ghent.
- Attended two CS meetings/gatherings. Had a lovely time both times, met great people.
Morelia (Mexico)
- Surfed Erika's couch for three nights. Had a lot of fun with her friends and family.
Interests
People. Street Art. Photography. Vintage. Party.
- arts
- culture
- street art
- photography
- concerts
- festivals
- dancing
- beer
- coffee
- partying
- pub crawls
- traveling
- volunteer work
- volunteering
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: El lado oscuro del corazón, 500 Days of Summer, Lucia y el sexo, Into the wild, Medianeras, Paris je t'aime, ...
Music: Florence + The Machine, The XX, Feist, Kings of Leon, Editors, Lykke Li, Trixie Whitley, The Tallest Man on Earth, The Mars Volta, Vetusta Morla, Lauren Hill, ...
Books: On the road (Kerouac), Las travesuras de la niña mala (M.V.L.), The English Patient (Ondaatje), La Sombra del Viento (C.R.Z.), Memoirs of a Geisha (Golden), Lolita (Nabokov), Middlesex (Eugenides), ...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Worked backstage at summer festivals, lived in Spain for 8 months, participated in a theatre festival in Cairo, volunteer work in Mexico, ...
Teach, Learn, Share
Whether it's about sharing opinions, discovering new points of view, preparing an exotic meal, exploring new places and acquiring social or personal skills ... CS, travelling & meeting new people is a continuous learning experience!
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Belgium, Egypt, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Countries I’ve Lived In
Belgium, Mexico, Spain