--- Welcome to Vorselaar in Belgium ---

I am a young woman with green eyes, two arms... and am very passionated about sustainable development, especially in capacity building. I see sustainable development not as giving people some fish, but teaching them how to fish. In the last ten years, I read courses on this as well volunteered and worked for organisations and companies that want to bring social innovation and want to decouple development with environmental impact.
I also did extra courses in permaculture design, environmental politics and philosophy and got a Master degree in Industrial Ecology. I studied in Sweden, Austria and Thailand. I took a gap of 5-6 years between my bachelor and master, to explore life, world and find my role in this life. After living for 2,5 years in Japan I am back in Belgium, since late February 2020.

I also love storytelling. I can be sometimes a dreamer. When I was a teenager, I played theater and sold even some theater plays which got performed. I worked also for Belgian television and a documentary house in Brussels involved in social and environmental activism. I love writing, and also blog for a Flemish mondial magazine about cultures and industrial ecology topics, like circular economy. In November 2019 my first book got published.

Third, I am a nomad. I have been in more than 60 countries, and lived at least for a year in Japan, Austria, Thailand and Czech Republic, and yes, Belgium :).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
because the values of couch surfing fits mine: Sharing, Openness, Passion & World Improvement

SURFED:
slept on a lot of couches in Europe, because of EGEA (egea.eu), but these are the official CS-experiences:

Gabriel- Ushuaia, Argentina
Craig- Auckland, New Zealand
Kate- Wellington, New Zealand
Gaston- Valparaiso, Chile
Dalibor - Beograd, Serbia (with Hanna)
Yossi - Jerusalem, Israel (with Hanna)
Gili - Ein Gedi, Israel (with Hanna)
Ahmat - Petra, Jordan (with Hanna)
Ali - Lahore, Pakistan
Raheem - Islamabad, Pakistan
Gianfranco - Milan, Italy (with Hanna)
Pashim - Gothenburg, Sweden

HOSTED in Belgium:
Agnieska- from Warszawa, Poland
Stephy- from NY, USA
Adam- from Budapest, Hungary
Blair- from Vancouver, Canada
Sophie & Tim - from Liège, Belgium

Interests

writing, hiking, gazing out at the window of cars, cycling whilst listening music, drinking coffee with friends, the stars in the sky, look at maps of the world and sighing, smiles, spaghetti made by my mum, children, songs who you remind to amazing events of persons, doing things I didn't expect myself to do, getting messages of persons I love, trees that look like old men; old men that look like trees

• arts
• writing
• theater
• design
• documentaries
• film making
• coffee
• politics
• traveling
• hiking
• ecology
• environmental studies
• geography
• spirituality
• social justice
• trees
• chai
• circular economy

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Blondie, London Grammar, Jefferson Airplane, Woodkid...
Movies: Spirited Away, In the mood for love, Eternal Sunshine..., Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, L'auberge espagnole, Lost in Translation, The Virgin Sucides, Amélie, Into the Wild, The Constant Gardener, In the mood for love, Bladerunner, Star Wars...
Books: 40 Rules of Love, Eat-Pray-Love, The Alchemist, The Secrets of Trees, Harry Potter, The Signature of All Things, The Red Tent, Immortality, Women Who Run With Wolves, Norwegian Wood, The House of Spirits...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveling around the world, alone, in less than 9 months. I was 22-23 years old. I met some amazing persons, and did things that I never expected (like climbing up to Mt Everest basecamp; bungy jumping; diving in Colombian sea, living for a month in a van without electricity between banana trees and two plastic flamingo's at my entrace...)

Teach, Learn, Share

teach: geography, flemish cuisine, writing your name in the ancient greek language, film quotes, cinematography, environmental philosophy, social innovation...

learn: fixing things, gardening, learn how to use nature (in ecological way), sword fighting, no idea... always open for new ideas :)

share: a good talk, a smile, joy, food... and dreams!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Lesotho, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Japan, Thailand

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