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Overview

  • 21 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Polish; learning Russian, Spanish
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • PhD student
  • University of Paris Saclay
  • From Paris
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed a lot, hosted a few times, each time an inspiring experience.

Once hosted 7 couchsurfers at the same time in my house in Ecuador

Interests

I love my field, at the crossroads of agriculture, ecology and social sciences.

Concerning music: Practicing blues guitar recently

Whenever I find time for it, I love to do photography. My last project was about people's reaction, while encountring artists copying paintings, at the Louvre museum, Paris.

I love mountains, and usually, I'm on a hike in french alps every other week.

  • arts
  • writing
  • wine
  • beer
  • partying
  • politics
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • piano
  • agriculture
  • ecology
  • political science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
My core taste is old rock ( Pink Floyd, the Doors, BB King, Gun's and Roses,..),

Electronic music: Paul Kalkbrenner, Gotan Project,
I love Jazz, like Weather Report, Django Reinhardt, Victor Wooten, John Scofield, George Benson, Richard Bona, good guitar and bass music in general.
and classical music: Mahler, Haendel and especially Chopin
Touareg blues, Etan Finatawa, Ali Farka Touré,

Books: A lot of non-fictions last times, but still, there are some books I definitely can't forget: A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole), La Pelle (Malaparte), Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), Crime and Punishement (Dostoievski), The egg (Gogol) (yeah, you can guess that I like russian litterature)
And some french post-modernists like Houellebecq.. sometimes.
Bukowski, Shibumi (Trevanian), Red plenty (Francis Spufford)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived for one month in a suburb of Douala, in Cameroon.
I have the map to enter into catacombs in the undergrounds of Paris
I traveled alone from Finland to Georgia, by bus, train and hitchiking.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, Finland, France, United States

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