CURRENT MISSION

Prepare the future

ABOUT ME

Here comes the job interview... :p

Let's begin with the surface. I'm 1m73, European-type, dark-haired, brown eyes. I wear glasses. Ho, and I also have a white birth spot on the chest.

People that I meet in real life after chatting with them on the Internet usually say this gives a wrong idea of me, not that I'm better or worse than expected, just different. Depending on my mood and on how comfy I feel, I might be very shy or completely extravagant. Make me feel home with you and I shall be a very cool travel companion, just my own way that's all.

No, seriously, it is not funny at all if I tell you everything now! Just one thing: I can be very talkative, there have been complaints already, just warning you :p

PHILOSOPHY

Well, I'm currently having a hot conversation on this one with a friend of mine. He's a kind of an hedonist, he says life is to be enjoyed, for it is too short. Hence no limitations, if something/someone gives you pleasure, do it/him. I do not quite rely to that. It is true that I like to make of every day something special, in the way that I force myself to do things that scare me or that I do not dare do. And indulge myself with little pleasures, an icecream, a film, a walk, at least once a day. But I also think there are more important things to the world than your own personal pleasure. I think the sublimation of life into art is one of them. I think passions, in all the excitation and suffering they contain, in their infinite intensity, are essential to life. To explain that, I usually take the example of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. He categorizes people into light, aerian beings, that jump from people to people, from things to things, and thus that cannot influence the world, for they are external to it; and heavy, earthly beings, that have strong attachments, and for whom every step has irreversible consequences on the world. You can say I'm a heavy being that aspires to (be) light. I'm also quite kantian, I think that what is important is to be true to what you have decided for yourself, to choose rules for your life and abide by them. So that you do not get lost, so that the sense of your life is your own, not what other people or other influences make of it. I also think a hug is the best end for a rough conversation :p

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As a host, I'd like to show my city (currently Aachen, Germany) in the best way possible, make it enjoyable, tell you where to eat, where to drink, where to go out (and maybe participate hehe), what to see, how to optimize your stay, share my ideas and knowledge, have a walk, I have a guide vocation, should try to find a work in that branch one day :p As a guest, I'd expect more or less the same from my host, that he indulges me into the soul of his city, makes my stay warmer and more characteristic as if I had been in a youth hostel (for which I'm not that young anymore anyway), convinces me I should move out :p

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I do not have so much experience with CS. I think the idea is very nice, but that it is not so easy. I'd like to try again, convince me!

Interests

List. I like to list things.
- Cinema
- Travelling (remark that this can easily be linked to the first one)
- Languages
- Food and drinks (well, I'm French, you know...)
- Cooking (try the specialties of the chef!)
- Playing theater
- Having a beer in a bar amongst my friends

• arts
• theater
• dining
• cooking
• beer
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• languages
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

This week, I saw the following movies: "Incendies", a Canadian movie from a theater play, the search of two twins for a genealogy and for an identity between Montreal and the Middle-East; "Polisse", a French movie about the day-to-day of the Paris police section for abuse of minors, filmed as strange documentary; tonight I'll go see "Carnage" by Roman Polanski. I'm currently reading "L'archéologie du savoir" by the French philosopher Michel Foucault. At night, I'm listening to some Prodigy, some Chico Buarque and some Wagner.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I got bitten by a pink dolphin in the Amazon river. No, seriously.