Hey all!
I'm Michiel, 23 years young and I grew up in a small town in Belgium, the land known for chocolate, waffles and beer. Currently I'm working as a management consultant at McKinsey and I graduated as a mechanical engineer.
I would describe myself as an helpful, enthousiastic and impulsive guy who currently dreams of living in Asia for an undetermined amount of time.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

By far the best way to experience a trip in another country is to connect with the people who grew up in it. I love discussing beliefs, dreams and goals with people from another culture. Throughout my trips abroad, I encountered who drastically changed my opinion on certain topics and made me rethink how I should "tackle life" in general.

Interests

Beside all the international stuff I try to practice sport as much as possible. I've been practising martial arts (judo, Thaibox and Krav Maga) for more than 12 years and I practised gymnastics for 5 years.
I also love reading (mainly fantasy) and enjoy the occasional video game and tv serie.
On one of my impulsive moments a few months ago I decided to buy a piano and realised I should have bought one years ago.

• arts
• culture
• chocolate
• beer
• reading
• tv
• piano
• sports
• martial arts
• gymnastics
• engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Everything melodic ranging from trance, drum&bass, metal, punk, classical and many more
Movies and series: City of god, Forrest Gump, the Shawshank redemption, LotR, Game of Thrones, Gurren Lagan, Code Geass, Breaking bad, Better call Saul, Hajime no ippo and many more
Books: The Wheel of Time, The Malazan Book of the Fallen, The kingkiller chronicles, The Silmarillion, Harry Potter, The broken empire, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Forcing myself out of my comfort zone and truly experiencing being alife by doing an internship in South-Korea.

Teach, Learn, Share

As a Belgian, I would feel deeply ashamed if I would not bring my host/offer my guest their fair share of chocolate. In addition, I'm happy to share all my experiences so far, discuss any sort of engineering stuff, teach you any language I command or even show you some fancy gymnastics stuff:)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, South Korea