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Overview

  • 5 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Dutch, German
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Student, Bartender, Barista
  • Chemical Engineering Student
  • From Brisbane
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To retain the travelling experience while being back in Brisbane...You can help me with that.

ABOUT ME

I am primarily a student in Brisbane, Australia where I study engineering, french, german and will start italian soon. I also work at the Belgian Beer Café in Brisbane where I am one of the managers. Next year, I will be moving to france for 2.5 years to finish off my masters degree. I really can't wait.

PHILOSOPHY

I think it is extremely important to learn another language. This allows interaction with other types of people and makes travelling easier. At the moment, I speak English and French fluently. Have just started learning German and I really enjoy it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am interested in sharing a beer, coffee and conversation in Brisbane and I can show you my city. It is kind of hard to set you up with a couch at the moment because my current living arrangements don't permit. When I move into a decent place, this will all change.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

For the moment, I don't have any official couch surfing stories but I have been travelling alot staying on the couches of people I met in Australia. I have also hosted a few people from Japan, France and New Caledonia through my school.

Interests

Swimming, Foreign Languages, Travelling, Eating Out at Good Restaurants, Belgian Beer, Wine, Films, Reading, Coffee, Eating Again, The Snow, The Sun, Skiing.

  • wine
  • beer
  • coffee
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • eating out
  • surfing
  • skiing
  • swimming
  • engineering
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

led zeppelin, jimi hendrix, the who, AC/DC, pink floyd, the doors, the bee gees, metallica, bob marley, tiken jah fakoly, brazilian music, french music. The list goes on and on.

entourage, nip/tuck, the office, the simpsons, futurama, las vegas, antiques roadshow, everwood, spicks and specks, desperate housewives, arrested development, doc martin, law & order: SVU, darts, parliament question time, catalyst, 7:30 report, foreign correspondent

green street hooligans, 2 jours à paris, in the name of the father, the wind that shakes the barley, Blow, the untouchables, the godfather, school of rock, cinderella man, almost famous, lords of dogtown, layer cake, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels, a clockwork orange, rocky, enemy at the gates, pulp fiction, kill bill, juno, the pianist, inglourious basterds, l'auberge espagnole, gadjo dilo, les poupées russes, dikkenek, la vie heroïque, de battre mon cœur s'est arrêté

I am not a big reader of fiction but I really love to read non-fiction. History, geography and science are the areas which interest me the most.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Standing at the top of fourvière in Lyon. It has an amazing view over my favourite city in the world

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach to a certain degree english. I can also teach you where to go in Brisbane for a good coffee, beer, wine or meal.

I would really love to exchange my knowledge of french and english with a germanophone. I would also love to continue speaking french with francophones in Brisbane

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, France

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