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Overview
About Me
Smiling, open-minded, very approachable, hating preconceived ideas with a taste of unlimited adventure. I always need to be in service as a kind of night owl loving bridal meetings and festive atmospheres, but I know also how to take good rest and study...
Born/raised in France, been travelling through Europe, Canada, United States and now south Pacific; first during two month in 2012 that turned out to be my first CS experience in Switzerland !
My only aim now is to keep travelling as much as i can & meeting people and chance encounters with different backgrounds, exchanging cultures and good times... I am really avid for couchsurfing project, ready to share and discover.
I am trying to OBSERVE & learn and would the spirit freed from appetites, egocentricity and ignorance to engenders a new lucidity which's the base of the peace of mind and the wisdom.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
I signed up in 2011, after my first couch in switzerland I'm aware about how Cs can change a travel. I surfed near Zurich during 5 days and maid lifelong connection in place I'd have just been a stranger otherwise !...
Interests
Love to read and watch movies, but above all get out of my home to discover new things & new persons. After this year in New Zealand I'd like to keep on my studies in Montreal in History and Anthropology in an International Studies degree. I also want to learn more about green work as I sign up for the WWOOF project (« World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms ») in New Zealand for all 2015.
- horses
- movies
- traveling
- socializing
- anthropology
- history
- hitchhiking
- wwoof
Music, Movies, and Books
A movies listing would be boundless but I love Stanley Kubrick's movies who mixes quite arts, involving images with music, paintings, etc. Keen with movies with strong artistic power, but opened at every kind ! Documentaries... the Salt Of the Earth about the brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado which I advice to everyone interested in the XXe century History and the unblemished faces of nature and humanity.
Really taken with all kind of music, especially jazz (Miles Davis, Christian Scott), hip-hop, mambo (Yma Sumac), on and on.
Same goes for books, while Boris Vian, Jean Cocteau, Milan Kundera, Jack Kerouac, John Fante and Ch. Bukowski stand out the common fate on my shelves ; book is a traveller's best friend !
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
2014 NYE in New Orleans hitchhiking from Montreal to Lousiana passing throughToronto, Detroit, Chicago, St Louis, Memphis, Nashville and arriving in NOLA after almost 2700km on the road in 14 days.
Visiting the east coast of the USA in the same way till desert Assateague Island hosting wild horses facing the ocean...
Teach, Learn, Share
I would like to teach in my domain of study and work on cultural projects in various places in the world. To learn more on the extra-european cultures like the afro-carribean one, exploring various social and geographical backgrounds.
What I Can Share with Hosts
As I am travelling with my girlfriend now who is french-carribean we are thirsty of meetings and adventures to be shared. We are real foodies then get ready to taste our yummy and spicy asian revisited meals !
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, France, New Zealand
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