CURRENT MISSION

to settle at my permanent home...

ABOUT ME

I was born and grew up in a small capital city, so I am used to live among different nationalities. I am joyful, spontaneous, energetic, tolerant, poco loco, unpatient,helpful, generous.

PHILOSOPHY

Who you are is more important than what you have.
Youth is not a period in our lifetime but a state of mind.
There are no strangers but only friends we have not met yet.
Do not regret the things you did but regret the things you did not do.
It is easy to know what you are against but not what you are for.
Modern mankind is wasting its time trying to gain it(Erich Fromm).
One of the greatest challenges in life is being yourself in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else.
Nobody goes faster than time itself.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give (Churchill).
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length (De Montesquieu).
You can fool some of the people all of the time; and all of the people some of the time; but you can not fool all of the people all of the time (A. Lincoln).
Stop spending time with the wrong people.
It's better to be alone than to be in bad company. Fall in love when you're ready, not when you're lonely
Si jeunesse savait, si veillesse pouvait (Henri Estienne).
Pour vivre heureux vivons cachés.
Tout homme a droit a vingt-quatre heures de liberté par jour (G. Van Bruane).
La vie est une expédition au cours long.
Juger, c'est de toute évidence ne pas comprendre puisque, si l'on comprenait, on ne pourrait pas juger(Malraux).
Chacun rêve de changer l'humanité mais personne ne pense à se changer lui-même (L. Tolstoï).
La fidélité: il vaut mieux aller plus loin avec quelqu'un que nulle part avec tout le monde.
Zeg niet alles wat je weet maar weet wat je zegt.
Het recht van de sterkste is het sterkste onrecht.
Een atoom is moeilijker te splitsen dan een vooroordeel (Einstein).
Worüber man nicht sprechen kann soll man schweigen (Wittgenstein).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted a couple of times so far and it's been a great pleasure...

Interests

history, languages, indi movies, swimming, running and hiking

• make up
• running
• movies
• fishing
• hiking
• swimming
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Twelve Angry Men, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Escape to Victory, La Grande Vadrouille, La Soupe aux Choux, Tanguy, The Shawshank Redemption, E.T., Gandhi, The Untouchables, The Silence of the Lambs, Rain Man, Underground, Heat, Dead Poets Society, Dead Man Walking, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring again, The House of The Flying Daggers, Festen, La Meglio Juventu, La Vita e bella, Amores Perros, Diarios de motocicleta, Seven, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Paradise Now, Das Leben der Anderen, Der Untergang, Cidade de Deus, American Beauty, The Virgin Suicides, The Usual Suspects, Bend It Like Beckham, Bowling for Columbine
Books: Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner; Geert Mak, In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

...getting up at 5am to go fishing in the Caribbean Sea in Costa Rica...

Teach, Learn, Share

let us share by listening, hearing and trying to understand each other. But therefore we first have to accept ourselves the way we are...

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, France, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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