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Overview

  • 35 references 32 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Arabic (Tunisia), Thai
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Well, nothing really original, I guess... Listening to mu...
  • tolerant, pacific, enthusiastic, curious and open minded ...
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About Me

!!! Pay attention, we are not living in Bangkok but in Pattaya, what's more than hours away from the capital !!!

CURRENT MISSION

I live In Pattaya with my wife where I'm teaching to 10 years old kids in a French school.

ABOUT ME

I guess I Can't sum up who I am just in a few words...

So just come to me and don't hesitate to tell me any question about any topic, I don't bite and like chatting with interesting and open minded people.

PHILOSOPHY

Humanity, freedom and respect. It sounds terribly "cliché" but that's it!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I love hosting and getting hosted as well !

Interests

Hanging out with friends, doing some sports, meeting new people, traveling and discovering new people and cultures, reading, writing and creating, listening and (trying to) play music, chatting respectful with friends and unknown people about existential questions regarding religion, philosopy, sociology and arts...

Just living in fact!

  • arts
  • writing
  • dining
  • running
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • sports
  • teaching
  • religion
  • sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

About music it's quite simple: all what is played with the heart, the soul and the guts. It includes a huge part of metal (Opeth, Katatonia, Shining, Wolves in the Throne Room...), oily stoner, good old rock n' roll stuff, but I really like punk, ska, rock steady, reggae roots, dub, some good hip hop with clever lyrics, jazz sometimes too, and classical music to evade...

Yeah, almost all, true, except the commercial brainwashing stuff running daily on the radio...

About books I used to be a huge reader before even if I don't have a lot of time anymore : I love as well German than Russian (Dostoievski, Tolstoï, Tourgeniev, Goethe, Lessing, Novalis, Schiller, Erder...), English than French (Ossian, Byron, Shakespeare, Scott, Hugo, Baudelaire, Lamartine, Huysmans, Gautier, Lautréamont, Rousseau, Voltaire, La Fontaine...) and of course the Antics (Ovide, Esope, Virgile, Platon, Aristophane, Horace)...

The list is far being exhaustive and I love reading poetry as well as novels, essais, literature, philosophy or sociology.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Actually, the amazing things I did traveling are engraved on my body: I start to be a nice scars collector.

I felt and rolled down a volcano ripping my back skin off in Nicaragua ( very nice scar on the left hip!).

I cut myself deep on the sharp salty stones from the Dead See in Jordan, some couch surfers can testify (one little scar on the left hand)!

I ... Wait, why did you leave my profile running and are you now afraid of traveling with me? :-D

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some french grammar and language skills since it's my job! :-D

Seriously spoken, all and nothing in particular, I just love to learn and share just by talking, according to me, the best way to open your mind and your eyes is to learn from anyone else's experiences.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, roof, laughs, talks, fun, flu, fluids, anything! :-D

(Sorry but some questions are kind of stupid)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Mexico, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, Germany, Qatar, Thailand, Tunisia

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