I am a social and serious person. I love spanding time with friends . As I am always interested in other people and different cultures I like to travel and to meet people. Therefor I was a hostmum for 5 exchannge students of AFS.
I teach schoolchildren from 6 until12 year old. Also I am a mother of a 20 year old. We live in a smal village at the border with the Netherlands. Our village Arendonk has nature, supermarkets, public swimming pool, art academy, an old wind mill,... but there is not so much to see. Still it is a quiet nice place.
As I am very busy as volunteer by 4 organisations, socio cultural... I meet other persons easily.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think I have a graet interest in how people of different cultures live and see their life. I did CS in Africa even before it existed. With my daugther we had graet CS hosts in China. I am interested in different cultures and want to see how daily live can be in differnet places. I travelled when I was younger and also lived one year in Ecuador as a volunteer in a educacion project. Now as member of an exchange organisation, AFS, I meet youngsters from all over the world who come for one schoolyear living in our area. Also I voluntered with refugees in my community.
Although I don't have much time as a working mum I want to travel more, don't spend in hotels, but see real life. So couchsurfing seems a nice way to meet locals and learn about them and their cities.

Interests

• education
• history
• art
• nature
• afs

Music, Movies, and Books

all kind of music, certainly the '80's, 90's and 2000.
I like movies which are showing some unexpected things of life, such as worldmovies... more than most hollywood commercial succeses.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

visiting my chinese hostdaughter, have breakfast with a sjamaan, enjoying sunset in a karavansarai in the desert, ...

Teach, Learn, Share

living life as a gift, you never know what a day might bring you if you say ' yes'

What I Can Share with Hosts

I could tell about my village, the nearest city Turnhout or a beautiful city as Antwerp (50 kms)
Conversations and if you like , playing a boardgame

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Burkina Faso, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Hong Kong, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Togo, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Ecuador