hiii i’m Rigel, a 21yo student with a mind like a rainforest
they/them :)

i’m a hiker, runner, avid reader, deep listener, enthusiastic talker, semi-cook, experimental musicmaker, and an explorer at heart

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

meeting people with different backgrounds;; i appreciate intersections of culture, interests, identities and energies;,, also just overall deep talks are second nature to me :)

Interests

music!! concerts, songs, artists, composition, lyricism…literally everything music-related;,

veganism, biocentrism, sports, biology & (quantum)physics, queer theory, Deleuze&Guatarri, outer space, anime& seinen manga . . .

• veganism
• experimental music
• deleuze
• lingua ignota

Music, Movies, and Books

everything music (mostly electronic, but i can go from dance pop to death metal)!!
i also like most art house cinema, especially Wong Kar Wai, Hirokazu Kore-Eda, and Wes Anderson

big fan of Haruki Murakami & Mieko Kawakami from Japan, and Lucas Rijneveld from the Netherlands

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I’ve escaped death a few times while hiking,,, uhh yea,, i also make noise music :) !

Teach, Learn, Share

I play the violin (tho I used to be better at it back when I still played in an orchestra), and I took two years of (threshold level) Japanese in evening school

Recently got my master degree in Sexology!! So if you wanna have a convo about gender politics, why the menopause is not entirely a bad thing, or the psychoanalytical perspective on pregnancy, just ask! :)

& I also finished a bachelor in Medicine (so i can save ur life if u have a heart attack, or at least, i’ll try to)

What I Can Share with Hosts

a deep convo or just some good laughs;,, i’ve got a background in medicine, sexology, also gender philosophy & queer theory;,, i can talk abt music to no end, same goes for animals, space civilization, manga, anime… (really anything with some depth tbh)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium