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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning German, Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Music, Sports, Discoveries
  • I have a master in engineering
  • From San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I love meeting people and discovering about their culture. I think that life shouldn't be spent without meeting a lot of people around the world.

PHILOSOPHY

Never travel without a guitar :-)
Besides that, I think we should all try to be as much generous as we can during our whole life. Helping people isn't something we should do but something we must do, because this is what being part of a community also means, besides enjoying it. However when I travel, I like to disturb people the least for them to be comfortable. We all have our concerns and issues and I think that paying respect to that is also very important. However, I am never closed to anything.
The bottom line I think is to be open minded and curious :-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've surfed a couple couches and always had a great experience. I'm getting settled down in San Francisco right now, so I will be able to host people soon.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed once in Los Angeles, USA. It was a very nice house of ten people, and they were very friendly with us. We spent a night playing poker and telling stories around a couple drinks. I really enjoyed it :-) Such hospitality and kindness was also a source of real pleasure and enjoyment.
Then in India, I discovered an awesome familly who hosted me for a couple of days. I basically arrived in the airport with no place to sleep at, and they agreed to help me :)

Interests

I love music, sports (Snowbard crazy among other things), economy, science, news, dance (salsa, nightclub), parties... I guess the other thing I like the most is meeting people, sharing and live concerts :-)
I also love going out in the woods, camping, biking, swimming,
And I love playing music with other people.

  • culture
  • concerts
  • dancing
  • partying
  • drinking
  • news
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • poker
  • music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • camping
  • sports
  • swimming
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

I like many kinds of movies, from the one that makes you laugh to the one that makes you think or show you a particular aspect of life.
Now some titles : "Old boy" and "Sympathy for Mr Vengeance" from Park Chan-wook, "Memento", "Pulp fiction", "Reservoir dogs", "Match point" , "How high", "Monthy Python holy grail", "cite de deus"....

I listen to a lot of kinds of music. Right now, I have moved to a more brassy and groovy hip-hop period, but I always add some jazz, funk and electronic music in the middle of it. I also love the whole brasilian influence like samba, salsa and especially bossa nova with baden powell, stan getz and all these folks. They have been a great inspiration for me while learning guitar. On the side, I also like music with meaningful texts or not, because words also have their own music.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was at the Cap of Good Hope, and looking around the lighthouse roof was just mind blowing.

Countries I’ve Visited

India, Russian Federation, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, South Africa, United States

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