ABOUT ME
I am a friendly, outgoing, enthusiastic person... I like laughing, singing, travelling, meeting people... and I believe happyness is THE way to live life. Happy people are kind and caring and generous... and happyness is contagious!

PHILOSOPHY
When in doubt, choose to enjoy the experience and make it fun :-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Backpacking through Honduras, I had the chance to meet very friendly people who invited me to stay with them for a few days and I had an amazing experience: making friends, meeting local people, learn more about their culture. That was so different from going to anonymous hostel where you can only meet other tourists!

When I was little, my dad always liked inviting strangers to stay with us. Anytime he was on a train, he would come home with a guest. That was a lot of fun :-)

When I travel, I always feel staying with locals beats any hotel.

So when I discovered couchsurfing.org, I was super excited: what a brilliant, friendly, enriching way to travel!

I discovered the site a few years ago when I traveled from San Francisco to Vancouver and had the chance to meet amazing people while surfing their couch. I had a great time :-)

I've hosted many friends of friends in several places I've lives. I have yet to host people through the couchsurfing.com site. Will you be our fisrt guest?

Interests

Hmmm... that list is long...

I'm interested in:
- people: I like humans, I like to meet and socialize and make new friends
- linguistics and communication and passionate about learning sign language
- music, singing, music therapy, composing music, song writing
- parenting, attachment parenting, education, teaching, Gattegno Pedagogy... In a word, all the ways to respectfully accompany our youngsters through their childhood and adolescence, and enjoying it :-)
- spirituality and all religions
- focusing. I'm a trained focusing therapist and teacherme so much...
- meeting people, making new friends, travelling
- cohousing - I even used to maintain a french blog about it. http://covoisinage.canalblog.com I have dropped it for now because it's very time consuming, but I'm still hoping to live in one, someday
- woodworking: I used to dream to become a cabinetmaker... maybe in my next life :-)
- sewing: little clothes for my kids, I have yet to dare sew something for me.
- reading
- computers, programming, open source
- maths

... and millions of other things...

• culture
• singing
• education
• clothing
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• woodworking
• music
• backpacking
• surfing
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
The continuum concept, Jean Liedloff
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
Les cerfs volants - Romain Gary
Loving what is - Byron Katie
How children fail/learn - John Holt
Playfull parenting - Larry Cohen
Daily groove - Scott Noelle

Music:
Antonio Carlos Jobim - and his lovely bossa novas...
Damien Rice - his funny lyrics and his mixing opera singing in eskimo friend
Keith Jarrett and his Kolhn concert... what more can I say?
Bernard Lavilliers - Salomé is dancing :-)
Marcio Faraco - Bossa is back... Lyrics full of sun and tenderness, soft and happy melodies, thank you Marcio!
Morcheeba - Trip hop or blues? Skye Edwards sounds like a jewel and Big calm is definitely high on my favorite albums list.
Youssou N'Dour - I like is energy, his beat. His concert in Montreal was one of the best concerts I've ever been to.

Movies:
Indies like...
Clerks - Funny, crazy... I love it
Once - touching, beautifull music...
My life without me - touching
Minuscule : Insects private life and a hilarious parody of an xwing fight with flies chasing a ladybug.
The Princess Bride - Very funny fairy tale parody.
Miyazaki, Kusturica, Lelouch, Spielberg...

and a gazillion others...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hanggliding in British Columbia. Wooooooo

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach french and english and music and history and geopolitics
I'm passionate about languages and currently very dedicated to learning sign language - if you're deaf or know sign language: do ask to stay with us, you'll probably get a super enthusiastic YES!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Friendship, chating, board games, food, showing you around Geneva, going for a short hike in the mountains...

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Madagascar, United Kingdom