CURRENT MISSION

Travel the world, meeting great people, seeing beautiful things

ABOUT ME

Hi, my name is Marie. What makes me dream: cumulonimbus clouds, starry skies and the afternoon moon. I love art: Frieseke, Tarbell, Vermeer, Alfred Stevens and... Van Gogh (if you look closely at his paintings you can see the wind go through it).
I appreciate "real" experiences over comfortable/luxurious experiences: like sleeping in a tent eventhough it's freezing just to capture the aurora borealis... over a comfortable hotelroom-view of the city.
I love nature and my goal is to show people how to love and take care of Nature.
I am a positive, spontaneous person, always looking for a new challenge in life. My goal is to discover as many places I can and meet great people on my way.
I also believe in a Heaven --> one here on Earth, that is. One we can create for others, by being the best we can possibly be.

PHILOSOPHY

Always try to treat people as you want to be treated yourself, live while you live and (try to) respect yourself and the earth you tread on at all times!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Soon I'll have my own place so I'll have a couch available for people to come over and I'd love to show you around Ghent.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've couchsurfed in Berlin.

Interests

Travelling
DANCING
Reading/writing/drawing
cooking
music
running
hiking
And all the things you enjoy as a child: running through cornfields on a summer day, climbing trees, sleeping in a tent, campfires.

• arts
• writing
• dancing
• cooking
• running
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• hiking
• rock climbing

Music, Movies, and Books

Too many styles of music, but Vivaldi working in any situation.
Great movies: The Constant Gardner, Ivan's Childhood (Tarkovsky), Big Fish, Leon, Eternal Sunset of the Spotless Mind, Moonrise Kingdom, Before Sunrise, and many more.
Great Books: The Gambler ( Fyodor Dostoevsky), The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger). Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck). The sun also rises (Hemingway). Oil - There Will be Blood (Updike). On the Road (Kerouac).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen a lot of amazing things when I let life happen.