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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Arabic
  • 46, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • work and travel
  • Uni
  • From I grew up in Bedford, QC
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

looking for a cheap car rental company in Iceland

ABOUT ME

I like people!

I work as a freelance translator and I love it. I'm addicted to travel and nesquick.

Isabelle and I have a flat with a spare room, and love to meet people from all around.

give me a sign; e-mail me if you're going to Quebec city!

PHILOSOPHY

The best things in life are for free!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

we had nearly a dozen CS here in Quebec, and we CSed twice, once in Maine and once in Madagascar.

Interests

- Hich-hiking. I think it's the best way to get a gennuine idea of the people, the culture in a given country. I hiched in every country I went.

- traveling (really?)

- karate

  • culture
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • poker
  • hiking
  • freelancing
  • history
  • languages
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

music : appart from a few bands like radiohead, arcade fire, the killers and massive attack, I can mostly pinpoint songs rather than bands, and most of the time I don't even know who plays this or that song!

Today's top 10 movies in random order (I change my mind often on these) : the incredibles, snatch, man on fire, the great Lebowsky, batman begins, vendetta, 12 monkeys, forest gump, the first matrix and I found the new James Bond very entertaining.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

like most travelers, the craziest stuff happens to you on the road, e.g. while hitch-hiking in Jordan, I ended-up getting a ride on a freight train

Teach, Learn, Share

I studied both french and english at uni, so I can help with both languages and even explain differences between french from europe and africa and from here in canada. I can teach some of the history of both languages as well.
oh and if you want to learn about the basics of poker ... :-)

SHARE : I'm also looking forward to share tricks to travel cheaptly. In most of my trips, I try to maximize what my budget can get me. I developped a few tricks, but I'm sure I can learn good ones from fellow couchsurfers.

LEARN : I want to learn how to say thank you in as many languages as humanly possible!!! So far i'm up to 29.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Egypt, France, United Kingdom

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