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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Use my studies and languages I know, to discover all the world
ABOUT ME
Undergraduated french/german-speaking student in art history, history and linguistics.
- From September '15, I'll start a Masters degree in Museology.
Loving culture life like discovering new countries, sometimes just relaxing or even hanging out with family / friends around a good meal / glass of wine.
PHILOSOPHY
Carpe diem
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
When I'm travelling in new cities! ;-)
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
- meeting people in Eastern Europe
- I wish, I could do it in Southeast Asia too, why not? ^^
Interests
Reading, writing, learning new languages, going to movies, exhibitions, museums, restaurants, bars, night-clubs, doing sport.
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Les Choristes, Christiane F. - Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, Good Bye Lenin !, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Titanic, James Bond's, La vità è bella, Volver, Lo que importa es vivir, El secreto de sus ojos, Nò, The Last Emperor, Schindler's List...
Music: Coldplay, The Beatles, Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Claude François, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ennio Morricone, Gotan Project, Carlinhos Brown, Yiannis Parios,...
Books: Le Dernier Jour d'un Condamné (Victor Hugo), Die Leiden des jungen Werthers (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens), Omero Iliade (Alessandro Baricco), Cien años de soledad (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), O Alquimista (Paulo Coehlo), Alexis Zorba (Nikos Kazantzakis), Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (Mo Yan), Night (Elie Wiesel)...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Europe:
- Iceland, with its landscapes diversity with my parents
- discover Eastern Europe on my own
- discover every summer a new Greek Island
- 3 months for the Italian language in Florence
America:
- one week in New York City
- a road trip all around the US East Coast
- 2 months for the Southamerican languages in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil /Buenos Aires, Argentina
Asia:
- climbing the Great Wall, China (Mutanyu)
Africa:
- scuba-diving, Red Sea - Egypt
Teach, Learn, Share
- guide tours around European cities (museums, churches, streets, squares)
- teach main dates of European contemporary History
- teach french and german at children, young people, adults (beginner / advanced)
Countries I’ve Visited
Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State
Countries I’ve Lived In
Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Greece, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States