CURRENT MISSION

learning how to fly and trying to be part of the world

ABOUT ME

Most people would call me a dreamer, but i don't see myself as a dreamer. A dreamer is someone who stays in lightness of his thoughts and doesn't act. I'm not just a dreamer, 'cause i want my thoughts to become reality.
I want to take you back to your childhood... Do you remember your dream? Some people wanted to become a cowboy, some wanted to become a prinses, or a fireman, or wanted to travel into space... Every child had a dream like that. My biggest dream was flying. Clouds passing and wind blowing. And now I spend my days with jumping from high things and balancing on rails. I try to fly every day. It's the fortune of my dusty face.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My first couchsurfing experience started at the place of a friend of mine. She had two guys from Peru staying at her place. We went to a party that night and I had a great time. I started dancing barefoot, and at the end of the night, I had to go home because my feet were bleeding. I still cherish the scars.
Since that moment I decided to participate in the couchsurfing community. It's an extraordinary way of travelling and of discovering your own country. A lot of open minded people cross your path and enriched your own life.

Interests

I have to admit, i have a fascination for human beings. Every person in the world is his own story and his eyes and hands tell their past. I like looking in someones eyes for an extremely long time, discover the things that you don't see at first sight.

I can't play any music, but music is one of the most important things in my life. I can play harmonica, and i have an ukelele, guitar and rainpipe (cool instrument, made of a cactus and makes the sound of rain)at my place. My friends describe my playing as 'crappy', 'shitty', 'keep training', 'nice try' or 'shut up'.

Apart from that i like writing, philosophy, travelling, cooking, sleeping, imagination, being a mature kid, poetry, art and photography. I also put honey in almost all my food!

• arts
• writing
• poetry
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• partying
• flying
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• boxing

Music, Movies, and Books

I mainly base my choice of movies on the choices of the director. A list of inspiring directors: Passolini, Fellini, Rossolini, Tarkovski, Luis Buñuel (Nazarin, L'age D'or, Un Chien Andalou), Lars Von Trier (Melancholia, Dancer in the Dark, Dogville) Ingmar Bergman, Aranofsky (Requim for a Dream, Pi, The Fountain, Black Swan,...), Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket, A clockwork Orange, 2001: a Space Odyssey,...), Kim Ki Duk (Spring, summer, fall, winter ... and spring again - The Bow - Time - Breath) - Walz With Bashir - The Wall -

Music: Classical Music, Neo-Classical Music, Avant Garde Music, post-rock, dark jazz, blues, trip hop - ...
My most played records: Stockhausen - Berio - Brian Eno - The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Orchestra - Einsturzende Neubauten - Björk - Flying Horseman - Moddi - Pink Floyd - Explosions in the sky - Echo Beatty - Olafur Arnalds - Trentemoller - Burial - Vic Chesnutt - Sigur Ros - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The XX - Deep Purple ...

Writers: Existentialism (Soren Kierkegaard - Sartre - Derrida), Kafka - Camus - Kundera - Pessoa - Ovidius - Schopenhauer - Michel de Montaigne - ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most important moments in my life were definitively some confrontations with human suffering. On my trip to Bangladesh i faced a lot of poverty, but you don't have to go that far. Here in the center of Ghent of Brussels, you can see the same suffering, but you have to open you eyes for that.

Another part was the death of my grandmother. She was a very special person for me, and she learned my how to live as a ethical and human being. Despite the suffering in the world, she thought me to be positive and use my strength and wealth for helping other peoples.

One more life changing experience was a pilgrimage of 500km. For me it was the discovering of a inner sentiment of constant travelling. Feeling home while being on the road.

But, you know, this is very personal stuff... And this words must sounds very empty if you read them. But i can't write those feelings down in a box like this...

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Iran, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Latvia