Newly arrived in Ankara, I will stay here for the next 6 months doing a traineeship in that capital city.

I would happy to discover the city, the area around, and meet locals in order to understand what means being an Ankaralı.

Learning Turkish, I would love to practice it!

Don’t hesitate to contact me :) Maybe see you soon!

CURRENT MISSION

Apprécier la vie! Enjoy the life as much as it is possible!

ABOUT ME

Hello, my name is Gabin and I was born in the south of France. I am studying at the University of Tehran at the moment, and I try to discover parts in the country. Open-minded and tolerant, I enjoy meet people and share experiences with them. :)

PHILOSOPHY

"- You aren't sad anymore?
- Well, you have choice to be happy or sad. My choice: to be happy. And I am happy!"
('The Tree', Julie Bertuccelli, 2010)

"Nous sommes peu à penser trop et trop à penser peu". (F. Sagan)

"On vit nos vies comme si c'étaient des brouillons et qu'après on allait tout pouvoir recommencer au propre, ben non! Le brouillon, c'est le propre!"
(Wajdi Mouawad, "Seuls")

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I already made some couchsurfing in Brussels, Berlin, in Scotland and in New-Zealand, in Turkey, in France as well and now in Iran !

I always remember at great experiences and really very nice meetings !!

I hosted some friends and friends of friends at home! If I can, I'm always open to host some couchers, accordingly where I am living.

Interests

What do you want to do in life ?

"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
Søren KIERKEGAARD

• socializing

Music, Movies, and Books

CINEMA :
from Xavier Dolan, Pedro Aldmodovar, Woody Allen, Cédric Klapisch, Fatih Akin, Michael Haneke...

FILMS:
Into the Wild, J'ai tué ma mère, Les Amours Imaginaires, Laurence Anyways, Tom à la ferme, Mommy, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, De l'autre côté, Soul Kitchen, My Sweet Peper Land, Persepolis, Main dans la main, Little Miss Sunshine, Requiem for a Dream, Moonrise Kingdom, Alabama Monroe, Barbara, La vie d'Adèle, Brokeback Mountain, Alata, Valse avec Bashir, Melancholia, La Vie des Autres, Nymphomaniac, Gainsbourg vie héroïque, Welcome, A la merveille, No, Harvey Milk, Shame, Love, Les Biens-Aimés, Les Poupées Russes, Tomboy, Volver, La mauvaise Education, La Guerre est déclarée, Polisse, Lord of War, L'amour dure trois ans, Restless, La Vie est belle, Black Swan, Les chansons d'amour, Les Quatre Cents Coups, The Tree of Life, Incendies, The Ghostwriter, Un Prophète, GoodBye Lenin, Le Hérisson, L'homme qui voulait vivre sa vie, Poetry, L'Arbre, Carnets de voyage, Match Point, Jeux d'enfants, Mustang, Slumdog Millionaire, Barbara, The Grand Budapest Hotel.... To be continued!

MUSIC:
Agnes Obel, Ayo, Parov Stelar, Barbara, Brel, Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Fauve, Thomas Dutronc, Thomas Fersen, Christine and the Queens, Sia, Césaria Evora, Alt J, Woodkid, Moderat, Buena Vista Social Club, Bill Withers, Nina Simone, Shaka Ponk, Radiohead, Aaron, Ray Charles, MGMT, Manu Chao, Brigitte, Selah Sue, Daft Punk, Adb Al Malik, Alex Beaupain, Juliette Gréco, Jane Birkin, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Arcade Fire, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Coldplay, Tryo, Caravan Palace, Les Fatals Picards, The Do, Artics Monkeys, Goran Bregovic, Bénabar, Yael Naim, Chinese Man, Iain Morrison, Miles Davis, James Brown, Zebda, Asaf Avidan, Lykke Lie, Renaud, Noir Désir, Bohemian Betyars, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Beirut, Françoise Hardy, Les Rita Mitsouko, Hindi Zahra, David Bowie, Asgeir, Stromaé, The XX, London Grammar, Flip Grater, Ibrahim Maalouf, Django Rheinardt, Asa, Santigold...

BOOK:
- Littérature française & Essai (Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emile Zola, Simone de Beauvoir, Françoise Sagan, Benoîte Groult...)
- Théâtre (Beckett, Sartre, Wajdi Mouawad...)
- BD (Persepolis, Valse avec Bachir, Bande de Gaza (Joe Sacco), Chroniques de Jérusalem, Tintin...)
- Poésie (Andrée Chedid, René Char, Baudelaire,
- Littérature étrangère (Orhan Pamuk,
- Géopolitique & Relations étrangères
- Journaux

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Etre coursé par des moutons en Ecosse!

Un saut en parachute sur le lac Taupo en Nouvelle-Zélande/Shydiving on the Taupo lake, in New-Zealand

Having discovered the lovely and inspiring Iranian hospitality!

Teach, Learn, Share

I would like to learn well Turkish, Farsi, Swedish and Russian!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I like to speak and share experiences, speaking about the life, drawing the world I would like to live in. I am already ready and up to cook something, from my country or somewhere else!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Haiti, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Palestine, Portugal, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Iran, Turkey