Mes parents m'ont transmis le goût des voyages... "les voyages forment la jeunesse" comme dit le proverbe. Soooo since quite a young age, I've wanted to experience the new & the different the world ova!

From Georgia in the good ol' USA livin in the north of France for the moment teaching some lil Frenchies how to speak English (with a sliiiight Southern accent)

Still figuring out the whole "about me" ... I'll keep ya posted!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

New on couchsurfing since I just moved abroad and I had never really heard of it in the states :)

Interests

- Blablablablabla de n'importe quoi
- Travelinnnnn
- Music/concerts (I do not play an instrument but bucket list task to learn one)
- Politics/history
- Running (or I used to run before my daily consumption of copious amounts bread, cheese, and pastries began en France)
- Journaling, quibbling down some little things every once in a while
- Podcasts
- Franglais
- Film/discussion of film
- Hiking dans la nature... or urban hiking :)
- All the cheese... yes all of it give me all
- Vin rouge
- Vin blanc (only if the weather makes me slightly sweat when I walk at a brisk pace)
- Belgian beers (merci bien, Lille)
- Tryin new things in the kitchen (or generally trying new foods, especially while I'm traveling)
- Tacos, queso, guacomole
- Dogs (and cats I suppose) I left a beagle-boy-doogie back home named Claude who I miss everyday
- Making photo albums with pictures after the voyages :)

I'll add more *interests* when they pop into my head ...

• cats
• dogs
• concerts
• cheese
• beer
• running
• sauna
• drinking
• politics
• traveling
• podcasts
• music
• hiking
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Not a fan of "What's your favorite ____?" questions but hmmmm here's a list of some favorites::

Books:
- "A People's History of the United States" Howard Zinn
- "A Problem from Hell" Samantha Power
- "How Should a Person Be?" Sheila Heti
- "The World's Religions" Huston Smith
- "The Bell Jar" Sylvia Plath
- "L'Etrangere" Albert Camus
- "The Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway
- "The Giving Tree" Shel Silverstein
- "Where the Wild Things Are" Maurice Sendak
- "Crossing the Mangrove" Maryse Conde
- "Trois Femmes Puissantes" Marie N'Diaye
- "The Awakening" Kate Chopin
- && many more!

Movies:
- All Wes Anderson
- The Shining... or anything with Jack Nicholson
- Boyhood
- La Vie d'Adele
- The Departed
- Les quatre cent coups
- Up
- Annie Hall
- City of God
- SO MUCH MORE+++ I adore movies

Music:
- Indie rock, folk rock, some hip hop, electronic funky dance-y disco

Podcasts:
- Radiolab
- TED radio hour
- Invisibilia
- 99% Invisible
- Gravy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Most recent amazing thing -- definitely visiting Stockholm in the dead of winter and taking an ICE plunge at a local sauna with a buncha naked Scandinavians

Teach, Learn, Share

thoroughly enjoy an exchange of travel stories & experiences had while explorin new cites, sights, people, foods, drinks...etc etc

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, Costa Rica, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turks and Caicos Islands, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States