CURRENT MISSION

Finding out who I am, dissolving the ego. Search for purpose. Getting a job (yikes)

ABOUT ME

My childhood was pretty itinerant, I was born in Switzerland then moved to Malaysia for almost 8yrs, then back to Ticino Switzerland and finally to Lyon France where I still live. I have a multi cultural background and I am a native English as well as French speaker: at first you will not believe I'm French, I sound American :p I like exploring and discovering new cultures, people, philosophies and states of consciousness. I enjoy travelling on my own and with friends, as alternatively as possible (hitchhiking, CS, camping, skwatting...) and being close to nature.
You could say I'm a daydreamer, thoughtful, ambiguous, sarcastic, ironic, crazy, romantic

PHILOSOPHY

Think for yourself and question authority. Timothy Leary.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera

Let the music be your master. Robert Plant.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral. LEO TOLSTOY.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. Aldous Huxley.

Love cannot save you from your own fate. Jim Morrison.

The power of the Riff compels me! Phil Anselmo

Yeah the man shakes me down and that's why I'm broke
The rich man's got all the green but it' aint the kind you smoke
So we turn up the rock and roll it slow
We're always flying high and the ride is always low. Brant Bjork

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By being a enthusiastic surfer and hosting whenever possible. Cooking delicious meals for my hosts and surfers!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had an amazing experience so far and met awesome people. Sometimes when you are hosted or host you don't have much time to spend with your host/surfer but it's fine to me, it's always cool to have a place to crash when your on the road. I like the trust you can have in couch surfers, haven't been deceived yet :)

However some places or towns are just terrible for CSing, you would post 15 personalised reaqests and get no answers... I also hate the amount of people who have a profile like this was facebook and never participate. Stop polluting please.

Interests

Music, literature, nature, plants, thinking, meditation, yoga, writing, travelling, skiing, vegetarianism, animal rights, anti war, motorcycles!, hiking, swimming, psychedelia, camper vans, cooking vegetarian food, drinking herbal infusions, Art Of Living.

I want to pursue a more spiritual and connected life through meditation, yoga and other practices. I'm more and more into personal development, trying to become the best version of myself.

• writing
• literature
• festivals
• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• bouldering
• hiking
• camping
• skiing
• hitchhiking
• climbing
• veganism
• psychedelics
• linux
• psychedelic rock
• psytrance
• motorbikes
• mechanics
• vanlife
• beat generation
• lsd
• freeride skiing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: psychedelic/psych/drone/stoner rock, shoegaze, psychedelic/progressive trance, techno, metal, trip-hop, ambient, psybient, downtempo, blues, indian music, jazz.

Movies: Apocalypse Now, Full metal jacket, what's eating Gilbert Grape, A scanner darkly, Easy Rider, Into the wild, THE WALL, the dreamers, saving private ryan, spun, fear and loathing, mr nobody, platoon, kids, ken park, Natural Born Killers, Equilibrium, the boat that rocked, the salton sea, the virgin suicides, Garden State, god bless america, sons of anarchy, breaking bad, The WIRE, The Shield, The Bridge (us), better call saul
And lots of documentaries!!!

Books: Herman Hesse, Kundera, Coehlo, Ken Kesey, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Steinbeck, Bukowski, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Alex Garland, Krishnamurti, Daniel Odier, Eckhart Tolle, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1 month humanitarian project in Burkina-Faso with 5 friends. We constructed a litteracy center and gave summer school lessons to the kids.

BooM festival Portugal 2008/10/12, what a trip!

Traveling in Indonesia on a moped and couchsurfing everywhere

Morocco by motorcycle!

Art Of Living Part 1 and 2 courses. Changes your life :)

Teach, Learn, Share

There's something to learn about everyone. I'd enjoy learning anything related to music, alternative lifestyles, sustainability, culture/art, meditation, Buddhism...
I can teach you about becoming and cooking vegetarian/vegan, share my music collection, skiing, hiking...

Countries I’ve Visited

Burkina Faso, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Malaysia, Switzerland, United Kingdom