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Overview

  • 7 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch, English, French; learning German
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Teacher
  • Master in Philosophy, Cultural sciences teacher
  • From Haacht, Belgium
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Travel more

ABOUT ME

I'm a first year cultural sciences teacher and jewellery designer. I love to read, write and draw when I'm traveling. I can't live without notebooks or a pen.
I'm small, but overcompensate by being talkative.
I love to take long walks, walking in the rain even. It's refreshing.

PHILOSOPHY

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars - Oscar Wilde

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I plan on travelling a lot in the future, hope to surf around a lot! Hope to host and meet nice people now that I live in Antwerp!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed in Portugal couple of summers ago, with a two friends, and we had an amazing time there and met really nice people! I've also hosted a couple of times and it was always a great experience.

Interests

Philosophy
Art and design
Theater
Travel
Diving
Music
Festivals
Reading
Nature
Cooking
...

  • arts
  • theater
  • design
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • walking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • scuba diving
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

-Pink Floyd
-generally old rock music
-Depeche Mode
-Placebo
-Dresden Dolls
-Nine Inch Nails
-Kings Of Leon
-Micheal Franti
-Pearl Jam
-Nick Cave
-Elbow
-Muse
-Bob Dylan
-Fink
-Sigur Ros
-Oasis
-Joan as police woman
-The Beatles

... A little bit of everything really

Books:

-Oscar Wilde
-Stephen Fry
-Julian Barnes
-Arnon Grunberg
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
-Isabel Allende
-Virginia Woolf
-Jack Kerouac
-Milan Kundera

And lots of other writers...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I travelled to Australia five years ago and it was the most beautiful country I've seen so far, really amazing how different every part of it is and how nice and warm the people are. So, I'm glad to be able to go back!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can make a wickedly good lasagna. So, if I'm staying with you, I'll cook :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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