CURRENT MISSION

Finding the country where I'll want to move to

ABOUT ME

Enthousiast and energetic, I love to travel, and periods that I spend abroad are always an occasion for me to enrich my view of the world. You'll find that I'm a very curious person, always very eager to learn and to connect what I know and discover to what I'm seeing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As I still live with my mother, I am not able at the moment to host anyone. However, if you're visiting Paris, I'd be happy to meet you and show you around, especially if you have an interest in History!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I did host a few people I recently met on the road while living in India, but never met anyone yet through the couchsurfing website. I also never tried to couchsurf while travelling yet!

Interests

I have a strong interest in History, and what I love when travelling is being able to connect the places I see with what happened there. I always find very moving the way a building can tell us so much of the people that lived and died there. My second strong interest is thus architecture!

Travelling is always the occasion for me to read a lot, usually books in relation with the place I'm visiting.

I love music, and I play a bit of guitar even if I would definitely not call myself a musician.

• books
• architecture
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• engineering
• history

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once in Japan, I went to a holy place named Koya San: a small mountain graced with many temples, sanctuaries and a sacred forest graveyard where most of Japan historical Who's Who has been buried.

In one of the sanctuaries, a small rock is kept inside a cage with one opening large enough to let an arm enter. The story tells how anyone with a pure heart will be able to lift that stone effortlessly, despite its heavy weight.

Of course, it felt like a challenge to my rationalistic, engineering mind, and I went and did try to find a way to lift it. Using the spaces between the bars of the cage as leverage, I was actually able to lift it by a few tens of centimeters and was quite proud of myself. Except the rock slipped and felt. On my finger.

Pain rushed through it. I hurried to find some cold water, but could not find any other than the holy water from the fountain at the entrance of the sanctuary that is used for purifying oneself. I discreetly took some water in a container I had and went away feeling quite ashamed.

I let you figure out what lessons should be drawn from this story.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, India, Italy, Japan

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, India, Singapore, Turkey