***NOTE FOR UKRAINIAN OR RUSSIAN REFUGEES : WE HAVE PLACE FOR 2 PEOPLE***
Not accepting other guests at the moment, as we want to have our room free for refugees.

CURRENT MISSION

Linking both Belgium language communities.

ABOUT ME

My husband Jonathan and I used to travel a lot with couchsurfing, and now we are happy to host people at our house.

People say I'm a dreamer. Perhaps they are right, all I can say is that I love living new experiences and meeting new people. Even if I can be somewhat shy in certain occasions, I'm usually easy-going, but I'm not good at planning things, and most of all I'm sometimes distracted so that I usually bump into all sorts of problems - I suppose that's to cope with it that I've developped a strong sense of optimism !

PHILOSOPHY

Practical philosophy : "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax." (Abraham Lincoln)

Inner philosophy : "If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but had'nt love, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal." (St Paul) - And God knows if I love learning languages !

Philosophical philosophy :... for this one I need further studies

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Traveling, hosting

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed in New Mexico, Quebec, France, California, Russia, and it was total fun and kindness !

Now that we have our own place in Ghent, Jonathan and I have been hosting different travellers, we've met so many interesting persons.

Interests

I love spending quality time with my friends, family and my husband, I love taking care of them, and taking care of all sorts of plants and flowers that are growing around me - be they wild or domesticated, I like doing sport (kayak or walking), going out with friends, hearing people laugh, reading, walking under the rain until being completely soaked, then go back home and watch an episode of the Muppets Show...

• cheese
• beer
• walking
• flowers
• comics
• reading
• traveling
• guitar
• kayaking
• languages
• trekking

Music, Movies, and Books

Books : My favorites ever are : Marguerite Duras (L'amant,...), Paul Claudel (Le soulier de satin), Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita and Ada), Bernard-Marie Koltès (Dans la solitude des champs de coton)... I grew up with the Tillerman children (Cynthia Voigt) and with Janosh's stories... I really liked The Kite runner by Khaled Hosseini. I like poetry a lot.

Music : I'm a great Leonard Cohen's fan. I also like French poets and singers like the French songwriter Renaud, Francis Cabrel, Vincent Delerm, Benoît Dorémus,... I tend to be exclusive about music and listen again and again to the same albums.

Films : Spanish films by Amenabar or Julio Medem, English comedies (Faulty Tower, Monthy Pythons), Kusturica (Arizona dream), and more than anything : "Brideshead revisited" not the new version but the first one...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Being a guest in different horse herder's family yourts in the course of a self guided treck in the mountains of Kirghizstan.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach French, or how to make a good cheese pie with any kind of ingredients. I'd like to learn to speak better Russian, Turkish, German, Spanish.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Jonathan and I live in a little house in Ghent, a 10 min walk from the train station Sint-Pieters but about 45 min walk to the city centre (or you can take a tramway for 20min). We can offer a double bed in a separate room.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Italy

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