CURRENT MISSION

To develop myself as much as possible...

ABOUT ME

Someone who tries to follow an indivual path. Upbeat would be a good defintion of myself.

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let live.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

- hosted Blakesworld (Us/Can) on February, 6 2008... waiting for many more to come...
- hosted Anna (Czech Republic) on February, 23 2008
- hosted Tara (Us/Can) on April, 2-3 2008
- hosted Nick (Usa) on May, 23-24 2008
- hosted David (Ireland) from June, 27 to July, 1 2008
- hosted Martijn (Belgium) on Dec, 1 and 2 2008
- hosted Paulina and Joanna (Poland) on July, 21st and 22nd 2009
- coffee and drink with Katherine, Amanda and Wendy (USA) : August 2009
- coffee and drink with Marion (France) : winter 2011
- hosted by Pierrick Robreau (France) : May 2011
- coffee and drink with Aurianne (France) : summer 2011

Interests

cinema (I love cinema !), listening to music, going to festivals (music, dance, theatre), travelling, meeting up with good friends in a restaurant/coffee, reading, swimming, going to the gym, walking in the nature, learning foreign languages (I'm giving it a go to Polish), photography, surfing on the internet, dance (contemporary dance mainly), good shows on tv, visiting museums, writing to my friends, painting, doing nothing when listening to music and dancing on my own in my bedroom doing crazy moves when no one can see how ridiculous I am :)...

• arts
• writing
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• coffee
• running
• walking
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• music
• surfing
• swimming
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies : Ghostworld (Terry Zwigoff), Sideways (Alexander Payne), Elephant (Gus Van Sant), The Secretary (Steven Shainberg), Brokeback Mountain (A. Lee), You, Me and Everyone We Know (Miranda July), The Crying Game (N. Jordan), Yi Yi (Edward Yang), Happy Together (Wong Kar-Wai), Un Air de Famille (C. Klapish), Bye Bye (K. Dridi), Le Péril Jeune (C. Klapish), The Double Life of Véronique (K. Kieslowski), The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella), Once...
Music : Natacha Atlas, Radiohead, P.J. Harvey, Arcade Fire, Cold War Kids, David Bowie, Björk, Pulp, Les Têtes Raides, Jacques Brel, Madonna, Heartless Bastards, ... I am into electronica (Chemical Brothers, for instance), I'm discovering jazz at the moment (Patricia Barber for example) and I like as well joven flamenco and world music in general...
Books : Maurice (E.M. Forster), Little children (Tom Perrotta), Le liseur (Schlink), Fathers and Sons (Tourgueniev), The second sex (S. de Beauvoir), Le baiser au lépreux (F. Mauriac), The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton), Suite Française (Irène Némirovsky), Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoi)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Nothing spectacular yet... But we have a lifetime to accomplish something... I'm not in a hurry. I might be 83 when I will reach the top of the Everest Mountain, who knows :) ?
Well, thinking about it, 83 might be a little too old for such a physical activity... But you got my idea, right ?

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach languages. I'm learning Polish with my Polish friends and teaching them French. I do enjoy that very much ! I'm giving some French lessons and I did the same with Spanish the last year, which was very interesting. You discover so much about your own language teaching it to others...
I had a few acrylic painting classes a few months ago and since then I have kept the habit of paiting. That is a very addictive hobby. It's quite impossible to run out of ideas for inspiration. My next plan is to learn contemporary dance. Yaaooohhh ! I'm eager to discover the world of Art, which I left aside for far too long... Newest additions : I would like to be able to draw mangas and to swim butterfly:) !

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, Ireland, Spain, United Kingdom

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