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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Heal my poor finger...
ABOUT ME
Finished my studies recently.
One thing I've learned for sure after living in Paris for 3 years is that I will not spend my life in a city, I need nature! To be outdoors! surronded by trees, or fields or mountains, or any thing not made of cement!
This of course dosen't stop me from enjoying some time in Paris and other cities in the world.
I try as much as I can to go to the Fontainebleau forest when I have time off, for bouldering (of course) and because I love the place.
I play the guitar and I'm into gypsy jazz these days (I've got quite some work to do there...)
PHILOSOPHY
Learn from what others have to teach, share what you can, enjoy the ups and downs of life, be respectful, tolerent and open minded.
In other words, be good to life and life will be good to you
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I like the idea of sharing what I have, and meeting people that come from all sorts of horizons. I hope I can put up couch for people that want to spend a few days in paris and show them around if I have time.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
So far I havn't been so good a replying to cs requests but from now on I'll do a better job...
I've done some hitch-hiking (which is a lot more than just having a free ride to somewhere...), and met some really interesting people. I have had some great exchanges with people that I would have never met otherwise.
Interests
music, weather it be playing, listening to cd's or going to concerts...
Bouldering, and beeing out in the forest.
Traveling, discovering new places and new cultures
Hiking in the wilderness
Cooking (and of course eating)
Working outdoors, in my parents orchard, beeing manual and constructive
All sorts of sports
Wine and cheese
this list could get very long...
- concerts
- cooking
- wine
- cheese
- working out
- traveling
- socializing
- bouldering
- music
- jazz
- guitar
- outdoor activities
- hiking
- sports
- rock climbing
- hitchhiking
- mountains
Music, Movies, and Books
music,
a lot of the older rock, jazz, classical, and sorts of stuff you can't but tags on: acdc, led zep, Jimi Hendrix, Iron maiden, janis joplin, john zorn, the bad plus, medeski, black sabbath, klezmer king, tigran hamayan, it could go on and on...
books,
dostoievski "crime et chatiment", Le Clezio "le chercheur d'or", Romain Gary "la promesse de l'aube"
Everything by ken kesey (especially "sometimes a great notion")...
movies,
there are quite a few movies I really enjoyed but I seem to forget a lot of the names...
Teach, Learn, Share
I can be helpfull when there's some manual work do be done, it could be fixing a couch or a leak in the plumbing...
There are many things I want to learn, amongst others are Arabic, German, Botanics...
Countries I’ve Visited
Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
France