CURRENT MISSION

Vanquish Status Quo and all mosquitoes from Earth

ABOUT ME

A nomadic traveller at heart:

I was born in Switzerland and lived there until I was 18. I then moved to the US, in Boston and went to college there for 5 years, studying Motion Graphics (which is whatever's on a screen that is not video).

But it wasn't time to go home after that. I had to accomplish a dream: to live in Asia for a year. I thus took an exchange program in Taiwan for a semester, and graduated there and stayed there working as an English and French teacher. During my time there, I visited many places in Taiwan discovering this unusual culture, and travelled around Asia as well to places like Japan, Korea and Hong Kong, etc.

After a year in Taiwan I went finally back to Switzerland. It had been 6 years I was living away. I've been back for a while now but it took me a while to readjust to my own country, which is kind of funny. However, I still travel a lot and go to Taiwan once a year since it has become my 2nd home.

PHILOSOPHY

I like to describe myself as the optimistic hedonist. I enjoy life so much, and I feel so lucky to be alive every day (especially on sunny days). I cultivate a passion for culture or should I say multi-cultures. I love all the different facets brought by people's various origins. I am multi-cultured myself, a quarter Turkish, Spanish, Polish and Russian, and born and raised in Switzerland. I speak French, Turkish and English.

I try very hard to maintain my unconventionality. I am completely against the conditioning of our society in believing what is right or wrong, what should be and what should not. For instance, I don't believe alcohol is the only way to lose your inhibitions enough to allow yourself to have fun. I don't believe I need to look cool all the time, and in fact, looking stupid once in a while is quite healthy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have many friends around the world, so I always enjoyed visiting new countries with a local person to show me around and save me some money :) Other than that, I'm new here so nothing much yet.

Interests

Movie buffing, salsa dancing, rollerblading, card tricking, snowboarding, and culture assimilating.

• culture
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• traveling
• snowboarding
• teaching

Teach, Learn, Share

The reason why French has so many words with double-consonants: in medieval times, only copist-monks knew how to write and they spent their time copying the bible. They were paid by the letter though, and so they started doubling some letters for better profit :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland, Taiwan, United States

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