ABOUT ME

Grew up and raised around the world by my French hippie entrepreneur parents, I have caught the traveler's virus pretty young.

I studied mathematics and cinema, I tried to play the guitar for many years, I listen to music all the time, I dance as much as I can, I believe everybody should read "The Little Prince" and "Animal Farm".
I like to understand why things are the way they are. I have interest for history, politics, sciences, religion, arts, plants, geology, people... I am open minded and I try not to be judgemental.

Thanks to my job (I work as a production accountant on movie shootings), I can afford to travel at least 3 months per year. The most important thing for me when I am traveling is not sight seeing or doing stuff or following a planned itinerary but making some real meaningful human encounters. I believe the wise traveler shouldn't be in a hurry because you need time to discover a place, meet its people, understand their culture and environment.

Что привело меня на Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have more interest in making new friends than saving up the price of a hotel room. Thanks to couchsurfing I met great people while discovering Brazil in 2008. Since then I have been using couchsurfing in Thailand, Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Интересы

Music, all kind of music as long as it grooves ! I am a real music lover, always interested in discovering new stuff. I spend half of my spare time searching and downloading music from the internet. I like to dance (I need it for my personal balance), mainly salsa and forro and some hip-hop too. I am always eager for a party. I like food, good food (remember I am french ;-) ), movies, books, trees and politic.

• books
• photography
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• dining
• partying
• politics
• movies
• board games
• traveling
• music
• geopolitics
• languages
• food
• beach
• backgammon
• salsa
• forró
• swimming in the sea

Музыка, кино и книги

Music: salsa and afro-caribbean rhythms in general, Brazilian music especially MPB and samba rock, soul, blaxploitation, funk, blues, hip-hop, jazz, mandinka music

So many movies : while not exhaustive, here is a list of my all time favorites:
A comedia de deus, Amarcord, Badlands, Blade runner, Carlito's way, Catch me if you can, Children of men, Chinatown, Charley Varrick, Darjeeling limited, De bruit et de fureur, Devils on the door step, Dead man, Down by law, Dr Strangelove, Drôle de drame, Fallen angels, Heat, Husbands, In the mood for love, Incendies, L'atalante, La maman et la putain, Lady of Shanghai, Le cercle rouge, Les compagnons de la marguerite, Loulou, Man on the moon, Me myself & Irene, Memories of murders, Miś, Modern Times, Notorious, On connaît la chanson, Onibaba, Only god forgives, Premiers baisers, Pierrot le fou, Psycho, Pusher, Some like it hot, Sonatine, Sorcerer, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Sunset Boulevard, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The big Lebowski, The big red one, The dear hunter, The element of crime, The grifters, The maltese falcon, The party, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The taste of tea, The trial, Tirez sur le pianiste, To be or not to be, Turning gates, Un héros très discret, Vera Cruz, Yi-Yi, Zorba the greek

Many books: some of my favorite writers are Bukowski, Chandler, Dostoiewski, Hillerman, K.Dick, Lobo Antunes, Maupassant, McCarthy, Haruki Murakami, Joseph O'Connor, Orwell, Salinger, Steinbeck, Jim Thompson, Yourcenar

Учу, учусь, делюсь опытом и информацией

I can teach you salsa dancing or help you to improve your salsa level. Actually I am really passionate about salsa and I wish I could meet a musician who could explain me the different rhytms of salsa (son, rumba, mambo, guaracha, guaguanco).

I can teach you some french. I wish I could learn all the languages.

Thanks to my Japanese step father I can teach you to cook rice like a Japanese （＾－＾)

I can show you how to make a delicious caïpirinha

Чем я могу поделиться с хостами

A good meal, a couple of drinks, a pleasant conversation, a night of dance and party, my extensive music collection, the unexpected...

Где я побывал(-а)

Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, United Kingdom, United States

Где я жил(-а)

Brazil, France, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Portugal, Thailand