CURRENT MISSION
Using boardgames to gather people.

ABOUT ME

Could I dare to say I'm an open-minded person who loves life an all its daily surprises ? Come and check it.
I love discussions, going as far as I can to exchange ideas about how possible it is to live in more balanced and equal world.
I don't have tv. I'm learning to play guitar and I play boardgames as soon as i feel it can an appropriate moment to escape and share emotions.
I've always been curious. I've been travelling since I can. The 10-month-travel I had the chance to make through south america a few years ago gave me an amazing life'school.
The 2-year-trip (mainly by train), using games as a means of meeting people from 2009 to 2011 (in Russia, Mongolia, China, Kirghizstan, Kazahstan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Turkey ) kept my deep faith in human kind goodness wide open.
Since I'm back, I've transformed my own experience into a non-profit-association, using games to gather people and go over differences : www.letsplaytogether.be
I'm freelancer, author, publisher, teacher, export manager : all different faces into one field : boardgames. My last game, create and published, www.piratoons.eu.

PHILOSOPHY

"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death." Anais Nin
"We should live simply so that the others can simply live"
"Always trying to look at the bright side of life" Life is a daily gift !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have used couchsurfing as a way to meet local people and discover their cultures and ways of life. I've surfed in lots of countries I've ravelled and host in Chengdu while I was leaving there for a few months.

I'm happy today to host in one of my home town, Brussels.

Interests

Sharing with people around (Playing) board games - Searching for original new game designs -Teaching- Taking pictures - Reading - Playing guitar - Listening to music - Walking through nature - Cycling - Spending time talking with friends - Social and environmental causes - Politics -

• horses
• writing
• causes
• walking
• politics
• board games
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• fishing
• teaching
• freelancing

Music, Movies, and Books

I love playing board games, probably because it is an easy way to spend time with friends or people I don't know .
I've started to learn playing guitar.
I'm curious about nearly all kind of music (maybe less about hardcore or metal).
Last best movie seen : Turist (snow therapy)
Actual bedside books : "Indian roads";

Recently best books red : "Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur" (To kill a Mockingbird) by Lee Harper ;
"The road" Cormac McCarthy ; "L'équilibre du monde" (A fine balance) de Rohinton Mistry

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Communicate and sharing emotions with people I could not talk to by playing boardgames.
Teaching for a month in a shanty town in Quito (Ecuador)!
Crossing The Andes Cordillera from Chile to bolivia, through "El salar de Uny" (Salt lake of Uny).
Traveling by horses through the mongolian steppes.
Eating a mutton eye as a honor around a Bishbermak in Kirghizstan.
Horsing, fishing and spending night around campfires into the wild of the Rockies, Canada.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching at University, for a special year in "Sciences et Techniques du Jeu".
Learning guitar.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Sharing and listening about past, present and future.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Korea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Singapore, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Venezuela, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, China, Ireland, United Kingdom

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