Thanks to the Erasmus exchange programme, I spent six months studying at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
I learned Portuguese from my Portuguese brother-in-law and my enthusiastic private teacher Valter in Portugal, to both of whom I am eternally grateful, as well as by taking Portuguese evening classes in Belgium.
After graduating magna cum laude from VLEKHO (now KU Leuven Faculty of Letters Brussels Campus) and with a teacher training diploma in hand, I started work as a freelancer.