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Overview

  • 10 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Reading books, killing people on my xbox, listening music...
  • I'm a stupid and hyperactive guy, i'm unable to stand sti...
  • From Saumur, Pays de la Loire, France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Be water my friend - Bruce Lee

ABOUT ME

I'm an open-minded and curious person really passionated by travels, but that thing, i think it concerns every person on couchsurfing.
If i have to present me, the first thing i'll say is that i'm hypercative (Hyperactivity is a physical state in which a person is abnormally active) but i control it (i don't have any health's problems), the thing is: i only sleep during 4 hours per night ( but if you come at my home, i'll let you sleep ^^), but if you wanna have a conversation during hours and hours, i'll be happy to be your interlocutor, or if you want to have fun in clubs, pubs, bars during all night i'll be your guy!

This helps me to read a lot of books, i really read a lot and i don't care about type or sort of book i read, it can be crime novel, romantic book, manga, comics, historical book, theatre's plays, etc.. About theatre, you have to know that is my passion, i dream of the day i'll be in a berlin's theatre or a theatre which is situated in paris, playing some tchekhov, moliére, camus, musset, etc.. I had a company with the one we've played on Bertolt brecht!

The second thing i really do is listening music, and i don't joke, i have maybe around 3000 cds in my musiccase and 500 vinyls, i'm not gonna tell how much GO of musicdata i have in my hard drive ^^! I placed myself on last fm for exemple, it's a website where you can be in the music news! oh please, if you come, don't tell me about independant rock, i fuck that genre! Independant rock is not type of music, alternative-rock yes, new wave yes, garage rock yes, post-punk yes, but not INDEPENDANT! Whatever the music you listen, i could speak with you about, i love all type, from classical to rap, from jazz to grindcore!

I play a lot, god, my xbox looks like my holy grail ( i'm kidding)! I don't like the fact that video games seem to be bad for people, why are they bad for kids or peoples ? Just because some parents don't look at the box and see this little logo -12,-14,-16,-18 ?, damn, it's the most important thing you have to see when you buy for your child! Games are pleasure like books, music, sports, etc.. but as all the hobbies, you have to regulate it, if you don't want to become unsociable! I play some games like assassin's creed, dead space, halo, gta, mass effect etc... If you are a gamer, or just a kind of, i'll be happy to play with you!

Otherwise, i love climbing, playing laser-game, running, watching movie or series ( in fact i'm following only walking dead, game of thrones and sense8 but i heard about others), making parties at my home with 10 peoples in only 12m² ^^, etc... Just come and see how i live!

PHILOSOPHY

Human life is short! Then i want to take advantage of all i have to meet and help people. Help ? well, i'm gonna explain why: I don't know if i'm on earth because a old guy with a beard decided to create everything in seven days, or because a fucking big bang appeared, or if i'm a program as in matrix, or if Descartes was right when he said that nothing is true, just the fact that i am because i think! I REALLY DON'T KNOW! But, i'm here, and this thanks to my parents who educate me, thanks to my friends who make me laught and smile, thanks to a society that gives me a health protect (thanks to what i'm not gonna die when i'll be 20), etc.. So, i'm taking life as a present, and i want to repay it throught my acts and choices, this is why i'll help anyone i think he deserves it! My philosophy question is: Why my life deserves more than his to live well ?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've never hosted people but i'll start hosting people in september 2015.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I use to travel a lot with my friends and sometimes alone but now i'm using couchsurfing a lot. My first experience was in Strasbourg in France, i met a vegan guy, very sympathic and that makes me understand how to use CS and how to participate in, i'm not using couchsurfing only to have a free place in the city i come,OK, i'm using it to meet people that really don't look like all my friends, family or french people i meet all days in the street, i want something different!

Interests

Cinema, Travels, Video games ( especially x-box), litterature, climbing, running, swimming, badminton, volleyball, Music ( i'm a kind of music-lover!).

  • books
  • vegan
  • running
  • walking
  • partying
  • clubbing
  • pub crawls
  • news
  • comics
  • movies
  • video games
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • jazz
  • cycling
  • sports
  • boxing
  • rock climbing
  • volleyball
  • swimming
  • badminton

Music, Movies, and Books

Eastern promises, Pulp fiction, Reservoir dogs, Lord of the rings, Megamind, Back to future, The dark knight, Hot fuzz, Equilibrium, The machinist, Cloud atlas, American History X and many others.

Red hot chili peppers, Trepalium, Iron maiden, Angra, Woodkid, Chinese man, Queen, Led zeppelin, Tides from nebula, Agnes obel, Gorillaz, Daft punk, Ludovico einaudi, Olafur arnalds, eminem,...

Proust, Aragon, Louis-ferdinand Céline, Richard bohringer, Lian hearn, Baudelaire, Apollinaire, Zola, Maupassant, Goethe, Emily Bronte, etc..

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sometimes, with my friends in France, we take our bike and one tent and we travel for a week north, south, east or west, just to discover the country and meet people. We did some amazing meetings ! I hope one day i could do the same thing and do around the world trip!

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