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Overview

  • 21 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English; learning French, German, Spanish
  • 49, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Student
  • Academic Bachelor of Audiovisual Arts @ RITCS (Royal Inst...
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About Me

After about 10 years of (non-continuous) travelling around the world, I decided to go back to school.
I could talk for hours about travelling, but let's save that for when we meet.
At the moment I'm studying an Academic Bachelor of Audiovisual Arts at the RITCS in Brussels
(Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound).

Other than that, I'm a simple guy (in the 'silent waters run deep' sense) who enjoys the simple things in life;
spending time with friends, playing the piano, having a drink, having long intimate conversations.....and sometimes we throw in a little madness, for “a man needs a little madness, or else... he never dares cut the rope and be free.”

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've met many interesting people while using Couchsurfing who were all kind enough to provide me with shelter, show me around their home town, take me to festivals, go out on crazy nights, go to cool events, etc.
This is my thank you to do something back and balance the karma, and also because I'd love to meet some people as I don't have lot of time to do that here as I'm studying a lot.

Interests

Nature, hiking, mountains, sports, going out/partying, watching movies, music, the ocean, reading, learning new languages, chasing the sun, meeting strange/wild/funny/crazy people.

  • festivals
  • partying
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • hiking
  • sports
  • swimming
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books by J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, William Gibson, Peter Moore, Bill Bryson, Dan Brown, Homer, Anne Rice, Stieg Larsson, Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, Paulo Coelho, T. H. White, J.D. Salinger, Aldous Huxley, Dostoyevsky, Paul Theroux, Kevin Mitnick, Yuval Noah Harari, Dirk De Wachter,...

Movies : Tarantino, Tim Burton, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Lord Of The Rings, The Big Lebowski, The Godfather, Wild At Heart, Event Horizon, Lost Highway, Lost In Translation, Amorres Perros, Snatch, Cidade De Deus, Carlito's Way, and I love documentaries (Baraka etc.).

Music : Ambient, celtic, reggae, oldies, metal, (punk)rock, trance, psytrance, salsa, blues, techno, classical, new age, world, hardcore,...anything that suits my mood basically.
Music is the new Religion.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swimming among black caiman, alligators and piranhas in the Bolivian pampas (see photos :-)

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm pretty handy at solving computer problems, it was part of my old job after all (The Horror!).
Other than that, I´ve studied several languages though I'm not fluent in all of them (see list).
If I can assist you in any way with languages, some language exchange for example, or fixing some computer problem, I'm your man!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Colombia, Japan

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