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Overview

  • 4 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Engineering in aeronautics and President of a non profit ...
  • French Engineering School specialized in IT technologies
  • From Pierrelaye, Île-de-France, France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To discover and understand the world by meeting local people and sharing great moments !

ABOUT ME

Traveling and speaking English became a passion to me. I'd like to improve and practice it as much as I can since I love meeting worldwide people, talking about our views of the world, and learning about how countries and cultures work.

As an Engineer, I love technologies and understand how things work together.

I also practice bouldering, swimming and running twice a week. Sport is a very good way to feel free in our bodies.

Cooking is also a great moment for me since this is a way to exchange ideas and fun moments with people. I regularly bake macaroons, croissants, pains au chocolat and many other tasty things ! I love food !

I'm used to travel and to visit friends and family in other countries. A big part of my family is Polish and I'm looking for as many opportunities as I can to speak English.
If I just think about the years 2012 and 2013, I've been in Poland for 2 weeks to visit my family, 2 weeks in the US to visit friends, 1 week in England to visit a french friend of mine who decided to stay there, 2 weeks in Ireland for vacations in a hostel in which I've met people from everywhere, 1 week in Germany for my job and a weekend in Belgium (very usual since I have a lot of family in the North of France).

PHILOSOPHY

Learn as much as you can, be generous with people who need, enjoy life and never forget your friends, travel and take a step back on the things you thought were unfair, pay attention to the stereotypes, be respectful, be aware, be alive !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I often go to Paris for various activities, and I live at about 40 minutes by train from the capital. I don't currently have all the things that are needed to well host someone, but I'd love to do it for people I meet at the CS meetings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm used to host friends regularly, but I've hosted only one couchsurfer until now. It was a great experience.
I hope having other greats experience soon !

Interests

I'm interested in new technologies for which I stay connected by reading there news everyday. I am the president of a non profit organisation nammed Shy Robotics, in which we have robotics projects. Several times a week, I publish news about robotics on our blog, http://shyrobotics.com.

Sport my second interest since I'd like to stay as dynamic as I can. As a very clever man said, "healthy spirit in a healthy body". The sports I practice are Running, Swimming, Bouldering, Biking, etc.

Speaking english is one of the most important interests for me. I like the link it creates with people from allover the world. I'd like to improve it by learing as much as vocabulary as I can, reduce my amount of mistake, and get a real English accent whereever it comes from. :-)

The fourth interest I think of is Cooking and baking. I don't know if being french guided me to love cooking and eating, but this is an area in which I'll take care to improve. For now, I regularly bake croissants, macaroons and various dishes. Each time I'll have to choose a Home, I'll take care of the size and the equipment I can install in the kitchen.

I discovered Rock Dancing in 2011 and I practice it once a week since then.

Music has been one of my interests several years ago since I've been practicing piano for 6 years... but it was 7 years ago. I think about learning it again and I still like listening to music quite often.

Music, Movies, and Books

So many to name !

I like rock music since I can Danse on it, I like classical music, RNB sometimes, Jazz when it keeps dynamic, some electro music,... I realy think it depends of the track more than the kind of music.

I like science fiction movies, intellectual movies, fanstastic movies, etc.

I read books about sciences in general.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

You'll see me as a nerd... I launched an autonomous submarine robot project at school to participate to a contest organized by NATO in Italy. My team has been selected for the final !

Teach, Learn, Share

I finished my studies 2 years ago and I'm now working very close to Paris on the purpose of airplanes. I'm not an expert of Paris, but I'm used to walk there, I know some nice places to visit and I'm used to the common transports. Don't hesitate to contact me to share a good time there !

What I Can Share with Hosts

There is always a lot of things to share with people and I love talking, cooking, dancing, sharing about cultural differences, etc. I don't use Couch Surfing to avoid hotels but to share the spirit that built CS, bringing the best I can to the host.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United Kingdom

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