CURRENT MISSION

New encounters, salt of the earth, interest in life.

ABOUT ME

I am a quiet person of 28. Just so you know, mostly, I like calm, real thinking rather than formal uninterrupted blabbering, and even reading more than partying, etc. Globally, you should expect some measure of stillness.But still, I try to be sociable and welcoming with my guests and hosts - and I hope I succeed. I can even be very talkative when engrossed in an interesting conversation, or get overwhelmingly expansive for whatever reason.I will be happy to guide you through city and museums, when I am at liberty to do so. I'll be happy to explain and/or discuss anything and everything. I usually have a very theoretic approach to life and the world. A certain artistic sensibility. And I think I can get interested in about everything. Easier to define is what I am not:- a party girl,- a fashion victim, (I may have a few ideas about shopping in Paris, but don't expect me to know more than you do about the seasons' tendances!)- a cool smoker or giddy drinker... don't even dream of it. I am mostly reasonable enough on those points that some consider me a spoilsport...

PHILOSOPHY

Life should be simpler.

My ethics are mine, and unconventional they may be, but I like to think of them as very strong. Politics are more important than we use to consider - and we *should* get involved.

For the rest... happiness is just out there, let's learn about the reaching out part.

Oh, and did I mention? I cannot fathom an enjoyable daily life without studying, or learning of any kind!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I did experiment lots of more or less similar situations: appartment exchanges, living in people's home and sharing their live in Africa, and different ways of backpacking, always aiming at a real way of travelling sincerely, and getting *real human interaction*. I am more excited about couch surfing than about any of those, because it means meeting someone real and actively willing to share daily life, ways of thinking, knowledge, habits, world experience, etc.I am (not so) new (anymore) to CS - keep me well disposed through the months, and I might really get more involved. Actually, I do have some sort of buzzing ideas already, and energy inside, that might very well blossom into organizing a CS Project. At some point in the next years or so.

Interests

Studying, reading, writing, culture, music (I play the violin), drawing, learning languages, etc.

About books, music, movies: so many you wouldn't want to read a list! Especially books. But let's say they include a large part of what most people call "boring old school literature/music"... Just so you know, heh. (Relax: I'm not going to force them on you, though!)

Mostly my interests revolve around exercising my brains more than the rest of me.

But I also used to like horse-riding before moving to Paris, and I do scuba diving. See, I am not a total bookworm.

Certainly more essential about me: I love to make things: think up (strange) objects and build them, for any occasion... or sometimes without even one! :-)

• culture
• writing
• books
• literature
• singing
• fashion
• ethics
• exercise
• partying
• shopping
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• origami
• music
• piano
• violin
• backpacking
• surfing
• scuba diving
• languages
• tourism

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- surviving birth and a 25 years piece of uneasy life ;

- following four paths of supposedly full time study at the same time and enjoying it ; (Although I then decided that it had to stop because I had other projects with my life!) ;

- singing Christmas Carols with a self gathered and taught small choir, and seeing a man stopping there with his girlfriend to propose to the sound of our voices...

- living with and like african people in Togo for one school year ;

- spending nighs at very improbable places and not freaking out: in the bus station of Tamale, Ghana, on the roof of several houses of the same country, alone in the french country-side in autumn with not even a sleeping bag, etc.

- befriending different enough people in the course of years, in different enough situation and from diverse enough backgrounds, that Facebook is totally at loss as to whom it should put me in contact with ;

- building a beautiful (yes, it is) christmas tree with wire and a ribbon ;

- a lot more, you should hope!

Teach, Learn, Share

I am quite sure there is a lot. Learning has been said to be about as natural to me as breathing. But I am at loss for an exhaustive listing here.

I can tell you a lot about culture and patrimony.

I try to draw, and even sometimes to paint. I like making things with my own hands and i'd love to learn about new techniques and forms - also, I have a special fondness for beautiful fabrics and materials. I have rough capacities and a certain taste for Origami. I play the violin as an amateur, and an indecently basic form of piano, harmonica, plus maybe soon some 'xun'.

See the language section also, and beware: I love teaching languages, and have through the years gathered some theoretic as well as practical knowledge in it.

If you have any other ideas/suspicions about what I could teach or want to learn, just ask. :-)

Countries I’ve Visited

Burkina Faso, Canada, Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Italy, Lebanon, Mali, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Togo

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