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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Arabic (Tunisia), Spanish
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • English teacher, translator, writer
  • Puppet theater
  • From Québec, Canada
  • Profile 75% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Create a puppetry show and play it all around the world with my husband!

ABOUT ME

I've been living in Tunisia for almost 3 years. Very interesting country... Beautiful landscapes, good cuisine, amazing history...
I am an easy-going person

PHILOSOPHY

Take it easy, life is too short to get angry!
I believe in love!! Love can change people!
Don't be selfish! We need each other to live peacefully. Respect the environment, try to understand politics so you can act for the best when possible!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hope next week-end I'll enjoy my first experience of couch surfing! For now it's difficul for me to host people, because a friend of mine is staying in my living room for the next 2 months. But after that, I'll be happy to share my space and interests with other travelers! I think this website is one of the best ideas of the past ten years!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted only one person, because I recently got a couch ;)
It was an incredible experience, such an interesting girl! She has been travelling for so many years! Talking with her gave me so much energy... I almost feel like I travelled.

Interests

Permaculture. "Permaculture is a design system focussed on the creation of ecologically sustainable and economically viable human environments, based on the observation of how natural systems operate. It can be applied to areas as diverse as agricultural systems, urban planning, architecture and economic and organisational structures."

Other than that, puppetry, writing, watching movies, hiking, permaculture, swimming... Trying everything !!!! I love adventure, challenges.
I like to learn new languages... These months, I am concentrating on arabic.

  • writing
  • architecture
  • design
  • environment
  • politics
  • movies
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • swimming
  • history
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music : Tom Waits, Jean Leloup, Radiohead, Sixto Rodriguez, Richard Desjardins, Bob Marley, Vivaldi, Beethoven, Chopin, Brel, Brassens, System of a down, Pink Floyd... and many many others.

Films : Forest Gump, She's so lovely, The boat that rocked, Dogville, Le nom des gens, Unmade beds, Okuribito, The Edukators, Une pure formalité... The Louis de Funès movies... and documentaries!!!

Books : Daniel Pennac, Paul Auster, Pascal Quignard, Alexandre Dumas...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Honestly, there are too many. When you start traveling, everything happens to you!! Ok I understand that the point here is to tell good stories...
I've met a bear while I was picking apples in the West of Canada, slept in the mexican desert, got married, worked as a nanny in England, played in a show in France...

Teach, Learn, Share

Feel free to ask about puppetry!

I'd like to learn more about ecological stuff, techniques to save energy...

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