CURRENT MISSION

Try to rediscover original sense of liberty, equality, fraternity

ABOUT ME

We are a family of five: Emmanuel and I and our three daughters, Oriane, Sarah and Camille ( 2002, 2004 and 2008)
We live in a beautiful place in France, near lakes and mountains in Savoie.
I work in a farm (in an agricultural school) : my job is to make children discover how their food is produced.http://www.reinach-formations.educagri.fr/presentation,281.html
Emmanuel worked in informatics and now is a coach.
We are very interested in ecology: we try as much as possible to reduce our ecological footprint:
We use bicycle to go to work, to shop, to bring the children to activities... We have a pellets and solar boiler, and we try to eat local food as much as possible.
Don't be afraid if you don't share our way of life, we are open minded and we really don't aim making people feel guilty and over all, we are far to be perfect in this subject !
We don't have TV and I don't like very much spend a lot of time in virtual exchanges : I strongly prefer sharing time with real people in the real life !
We enjoy board games, playing music, singing.
Emmanuel plays the piano and the trombone and thé drums too, Oriane plays the clarinet and Sarah the transverse flute. We all like singing.
We also like gardening.

PHILOSOPHY

"Tradition must not be a gullied path on which people walk one behind the other" (African proverb)

"Be the change you want to see in the world" (Gandhi)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We want to host couchsurfers and also couchsurfing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Before being members of couchsurfing:
- we have hosted young people for Taizé European meeting in 1997.
-our eldest girls went to Morocco hosted by the family of their grand parents'neighbours (in october 2011).

And since we joined the project, we hosted wonderful people.

Interests

Anne-Lise :yoga, gardening, ecology, biology, psychology, nature, education, cooking, mountain walking, skiing, learning, spending time to do many things with my daughters,playing theatre, spa ...

Emmanuel : Astronomy, music. mountain walking, swimming, games

• singing
• folklore
• education
• dining
• cooking
• yoga
• walking
• gardening
• shopping
• board games
• tv
• blogging
• music
• piano
• skiing
• swimming
• astronomy
• biology
• ecology
• teaching
• psychology
• tourism
• lakes
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
comic strips : Calvin and Hobbes, and lots of others
Emmanuel : fantastic, scientific,
Anne-Lise : Novel...

Music :
We like eclectic music :
« les cowboys fringants »
« Debout sur le zinc »french alternative rock
« Marcel et son orchestre » ska
Georges Brassens
The Beatles
Marcel Dadi
Ragtime
Classical music :
Magnificat Bach
Requiem Mozart
Requiem Fauré

Circus:
I Baccala: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykXvXsC8M3o
Alegria- Cirque du soleil http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fllDB3FK7pI

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Anne-Lise: I felt an amazing strangensess when I look to my first daughter just after the birth, this baby different from me but mine.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a compost guide and make part of an association to develop composting in city. If you have any question about this subject, I may answer you !
http://www.compostaction.org/
I am also quite avare about washable diapers or other ecological subjects.http://lamandragore.over-blog.com/

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Ireland, Mali, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France