CURRENT MISSION

to discover new cultures and meet different people around the world

ABOUT ME

We are 4 youngsters and best friends living in Paris.

Elsa studied in Nice and graduated in arts at the "Villa ARSON" (Beaux Arts). She now works movie production.
Olivia studied Osteopathy in Paris, worked with children at school. She is now practicing in an hospital.
Olivier studied french litterature at "La Sorbonne", worked in a movie theatre. He is now a teacher in Paris.
Julien studied Computer Science and is now crafting web applications in several startups.

PHILOSOPHY

Our philosophy is very simple: our philosophy is kindness.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

we want to share experiences and get close to new cultures and different people.
we want strangers not to be strangers anymore!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

After many travels by ourselves in youth hostels and campings, we like the idea of an international community settled on hospitality wich is very precious at this time.

Interests

Culture, art, museums, exhibitions, philosophy, travels, books...
Music, concerts, festivals.
Food, gastronomy (french, italian, japonese), it's a shame but we love the food high in calories too!
Not much sport just hiking, swimming, sailing, dancing, basketball and riding horses!

• horses
• arts
• culture
• books
• concerts
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• movies
• painting
• drawing
• music
• drums
• hiking
• sailing
• sports
• swimming
• agriculture
• nature
• bicycle

Music, Movies, and Books

We live like Kusturica's movies, we dream like Tim Burton's , we have nigthmares close to Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive and so many others.
We like Felini, Cohen brothers. Pedro Almodovar, Tarantino, Fatih Akin, Wes Anderson, Klapisch, Jeunet, Coppola…

Books: Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marylin French, Stefan Sweig, Herman Hesse, Barjavel, Simone de Beauvoir, Ionesco, Beckett, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Dostoïvsky, Tolstoï, Gogol, Camus, Nietzsche, Deleuze, Bataille, Douglas Adams, Alain Damasio, Philip K. Dick…

Music: jazz, blues, african music, balkan music, gipsy music, reggae, ska, post-rock… Nina Simone, Hector Lavoe, Billye Holidays, Goran, Lhassa, Mano Solo, Nosfell, Toots and the Maytals, Groundation, The Gladiators, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Mamady Keita, Buena Vista Social Club, Yann Tiersen, Edith Piaf, Gainsbourg, Streetlight Manifesto, Tim Minchin…

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once we spent three days in Romania in an Orthodox Monastery. 3 Kilometers further there was a gypsy village (Romanians hate Gypsies) where we spent our days and evenings. At the end, the things turned bad with the gypsies but we felt obliged to accept their proposition to drive us back (we are very polite people!). At first we were afraid, but despite the initial fear we had this awesome moment when we came back to the nun's monastery in huge luxury cars with hip hop music at full blast. That was unlikely...

Teach, Learn, Share

Elsa : share my art experiences, drawing and painting
Olivia : african drums, to cure people with my osteopathy skills
Olivier : learn about new litteratures and cinema
Julien : teach a thing or two about computers, science and the universe!

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Romania, Senegal, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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