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Overview

  • 6 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning German
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Director, screenwriter, Actor, model...
  • Acting school
  • From Lyon (69) France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Ttravelling around life on sideways. Leaving habits behind me.

ABOUT ME

First : I haven't been active in the CS community for a while now, and I am really sorry about it. I'm sad I'm not able to host any more : too small flat. But I'd like to show you around MY Paris for whatever you want ! Just ask me.
Me now : I'm a cool guy who loves to live. A bit nervous though, but always caring and paying attention. I take life on the funny side and trying to go to the bright side...
I believe in people, in Humanity, I believe we can invent and forge great things together and learn and be better and... together.
I read a lot of science-fiction (only that for the moment...) cause I'm found of thinking about how things are going. Looking at the future is a good way to see my present, and ours.
As a director, I like to create films that makes you think about yourself/ourselves, makes you feel a part of you you forgot. I ask questions about mankind, citizenship, politics, love, spirituality, I (try to) give a vision without judgement and expose some ideas about our possibilities...

I want to do everything I can do to give love around me. I want to be aware of what I can give and what I can take. Just charing feelings with the people I meet. My job is to give sensations, dreams and emotions to the public. And my work is my life. I can't do anything else, I am not able to do anything else. Give. Just take what you want to take, I'll keep on giving.

PHILOSOPHY

Sideways.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm not able anymore to host you... so sad... My new appartment has only one room with only one bed...
But I will be glad to meet you and show you the Paris I love !

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I went to Grenada in 2007 and I was going to "El roble blanco",a house lost in the montain, where live two amazing guys. No phone, no internet. Solar electricity. Quiet place. I was with my girl friend and we had gone at the village near the house, in a shop where a map was waiting for us; Abel (one of the two guys) had drawn on it the way to follow to go to the house. We xalk 40 min and then we find the house hang on a hill with nothing else around. Just me and my girl friend. Not a noise. The house was open and empty. There was nobody in there. We enter the house and start cooking for the moment they come back. ne hour later a moto came and a voice : "Hello ?" It was Abel who didn't remember that we would arrived this day.He was so surprised, it was very funy. And He was very glad to have us for three days in his house. We had diner together and a hudge evening ! talking about everything and more ! It was a great meeting ! Thanks Abel ! Thanks CS ! I want to give that joy to my host !

Interests

Reading (theatre, science-fiction's novels). Playing.
Listening to music. Make movies and go to see them on screen.
I love to meet people. I think life is always more interesting when you take a step sideways (sorry if it's not the good word, I hope you understand anyway). And what is best to take sideways than meet people who are different from you ? To be with this person is to have to be something you are not really use to. I really like that...

  • singing
  • concerts
  • cooking
  • shopping
  • politics
  • movies
  • reading
  • socializing
  • music
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

the Matrix Trilogy, True Romance, Magnolia, De battre mon coeur c'est arrêté... so many films for so many different "cinéma".

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

"Iam"'s concert by the Pyramids in Cairo. I know all the lyrics and I couldn't stop singing with them. Just couldn't. When they said goodbye : I cried and was the last guy to leave the area. Oh and, by the way, my father was really upset to receive a postcard from a country he didn't knew I was going to...

Teach, Learn, Share

sorry, I'll pass.

Countries I’ve Visited

Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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