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Overview

  • 9 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Dutch; learning English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Sranan Tongo
  • 58, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • raising children, working, playing cello
  • i'm an engineer
  • From I grew up in Otegem, live now for 9 years in Bruges
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

surviving teenagers

PHILOSOPHY

Don't take life too seriously, it's not permanent anyway (so said my nephew when he was asked to work a bit harder for school :-) )
Let's say I try to follow his advice, life did hurt too much in the past.
Up to the future and carpe diem

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted:
Rosbel from Mexico
Firat and Derya from Turkey
Violette and Manon from France
Alyssa from Canada
Vytas and Gabi from Lithuania
Gustavo from Brasil
Irma from Indonesia
Dragana from Serbia

I was the guest of
Monika and Frank in Germany
Mado and Michel in France

Interests

  • swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Manu Chao and Jean Guihen Queyras are my favourites. I also like Sting, Coldplay, Nirvana,Ali farka Touré, The flat earth society, Boban Markovic, Muse,...and of course, Bach

I read almost everything of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Roald Dahl, Bart Moeyaert and Calvin and Hobbes, but also like Vargas Llosa, Herman De Coninck, Arundhati Roy,...no much time to read at this moment, though.

I prefer non commercial movies, last one I saw is SKIN, very good !

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I did swim naked in the Surinam River by Abenaston, when the sun broke. It gave peace of mind, so much that I wished to die there rather then go on with life. However, I jumped of a mountain in Austria last summer and that was quite good too !!
And of course, I gave birth to three children. Every time again quite an experience !

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Spain, Suriname

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