CURRENT MISSION

Discover the world and above all, other cultures.

ABOUT ME

Hi,I originally come from New-Caledonia* and I've been living in Paris for 20 years now.
I love travelling, reading and discovering new tastes from all over the world.
Sharing cups of tea or coffee (depending on the context), cigarets and chats make me happy.
However, I enjoy sharing silences too.

PHILOSOPHY

To be open-minded...as much as I can, unfortunately I have an issue : I'm intolerant towards intolerance. :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I couchsurf and host myself when I can.
I'm not very fun to be around during the week though as I come back most of the time exhausted from my work to which I give all my energy. But I'm totally fine during the weekend and holidays. :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I couchsurfed in France ; Italy ; Kazakhstan and Kirghizstan.
I hosted six different people in Astana in Kazakhstan.

Interests

Travels, food and literature.

• literature
• dining
• coffee
• drinking
• clubbing
• drinking games
• reading
• traveling
• swimming
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Books : My favorite is "Journey to the end of the night" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
I like many others of course (such as "Dirty hands" by Jean-Paul Sartre ; "The Counterfeiters" by André Gide ; "1984" by George Orwell ; "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley ; "Zorba the Greek" by Nikos Kazantzakis ; "Rayuela" by Julio Cortazar or "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, etc.) but have never found better since.

Music : Queen. Blonde Redhead. Keane. CocoRosie. Radiohead. Placebo. Massive Attack. The Chemical Brothers. Herbalizer. Goldfrapp (only their magnificient "Utopia" album). Mostly alternative/indie/alternative rock and trip-hop) and all the rock from the 70's (musical background).

Movies : "Poetry" by Lee Chang Dong ; "2046" and "In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar Wai ; "Revolutionary road" and "American Beauty" by Sam Mendes ; "The Game" and "Fight Club" by David Fincher ; "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind" by Michel Gondry ; "The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover" by Peter Greenaway ; "Collision" by Paul Haggis ; Inarritu ; Kitano ; etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was on Internet to find an hostel in Jerusalem and booked for the first youth hostel to host on the roof, and I didn't regret it, because we had a BEAUTIFUL view on the old city and I met a great Danish girl there who became my travel buddy. This city is just incredibly moving.

Teach, Learn, Share

LEARN and SHARE :
I enjoy learning from people who are curious about the world we are living in and about all the things which are different from what I already know. In a word, I love learning, that's why I'm a teacher, I guess. ;-)
More precisely, I need to improve my Spanish seriously and I'd love to learn German one day.

I love sharing cigarets while talking about anything interesting. Always with a slice of humor but I enjoy sharing silences too. I also can smoke outside of course if you don't stand it. :)

I like swimming (I'm an average swimmer : 2 km per hour and I swim one hour) and nothing makes me more happy than swimming in a river, a lake or the sea.

I like running but running doesn't like my left foot (1 h 3 mn is my personnal record for 10 km but now I do it in more than one hour) and I try to hike when I can during holidays.

NOT MY CUP OF TEA :
Playing drinking games all night or going to noisy night-clubs are definitely not my cup of tea. I feel very old about those kind of stuff. I know who I am and already know my limits. Nobody to impress around. Sorry to disappoint a lot of couchsurfers here.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Their city. I mean, their personal vision of their city or village.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, China, Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Réunion, Singapore, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Egypt, Kazakhstan, New Caledonia, Norway