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  • 8 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning English
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Traveller / research engineer in Biotechnology
  • Master 2 Biotechnologie
  • From Bergerac, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes, France
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About Me

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Currently, I'm living in Limerick, Ireland until december
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I'm someone with thousand of ideas, but i have one problem, i have some difficulties to stay in one place.
I'm still looking for the place where i will feel at home.

ABOUT ME:

I studied Biotechnology and research during 5 years. I was engineer in Biotechnology during 2 years in one "small" pharmaceutical company in France (Nancy). I have always dream about travel and I love spend my time in one foreigner country, like for a weekend, a week, etc. I spent a lot of time during my study in Europe, like in Netherlands, Belgium and sometime in Germany or Spain or Italy.

I LOVE History, old building, stones and the smell of the old things. (but not old people ;) hihihi )

I'm from south west of France, it's a good place if you love castles, wines, historic caves and green fields... so 4 years ago I have discovered the caving world with one caving club. Since that time I'm in and I love it!! :) When you go to the cave, see the "inside earth" architecture only with your light and the light of your buddies, it's amazing! And it's quite "inside the earth", every time I'm feel so privilege to be here!

I also practice scubadiving. I have my rescue level and I LOVE it too! One of my plan is to go back to prepare my dive-master and to work in the dive industry :)

I also did sometimes paragliding. I had an instructor's friend in New Zealand, so he gave to me some tips and I made fly with him. But I don't have my own stuffs.

I like Hiking (I have discover myself during my time in New Zealand), Biking (Like fews days or one week with all the camping stuffs and friends), Camping and make my own fire camp, found some solution to fix something ( it's one of my favourite!) , so many different activities, ... but my favourite one is definitively travelling!

I love cooking but I don't really like to follow the recipe.
I can be chill or ultra-wake, I have a lot of imagination and one of my favourite game is to see some "creature" in the sky, trees, stones...
I also love to follow my little child voice, and sometime I do some stupid things, but I have only one life and my aims is to enjoy my life NOW and not after...after I don't know what!? Like we say "we have only one life and we don't know when will be the end..." So my plan is definitively not to have a save and secure-live, but to follow my opportunities...

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I have read one sentence, from Alexandra David-Néel. It's :
"celui qui voyage sans rencontrer l'autre ne voyage pas, il se deplace." (French version) or " One who travels without meeting the other doesn't travel, it moves!"
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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCH-SURFING EXPERIENCE

I have already do some couch surfing in France (with a friend account), in Canada (but with people met by some others peoples), in USA, Australia and New Zealand by CS. It was always good experiences!

I have also do with my mates, in my community house some hosting.

I have also travelled in USA with one germane girl that i met on CS web site.

WHAT ABOUT COUCH-SURFING:

It s the best option to meet local and nice people and to share some part of the culture. I will never say that all the people I meet have been my best friends, but they are all a part of who i am, just because they said "welcome" to me and accept to share a part of their life with me. Couch-surfing is also a question a trust. So i am really feel lucky when i meet so people who are still trusting people without really knowing them.

IN THE FUTURE:

yes... for the moment i am a kind of traveller/ unstable person. I love too much travelling, and i move all the time so i cannot host anybody, but i hope, i will find my place and i will give back what i took from peoples.

Interests

I begin to practice paragliding, scubadiving, biking, hiking and i was in a caving club for 2 years.

Otherwise, I love travel and I'm doing a trip every time that I can (one week or two weeks, in France or in one other country).

  • animals
  • culture
  • writing
  • books
  • literature
  • architecture
  • cooking
  • meditation
  • flying
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • live music
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • paragliding
  • engineering
  • history
  • tourism
  • scubadiving

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

- Reggae: Bob Marley/Groundation/Black Uruhu/K2R Riddim/Steel Pulse/etc.
- French festive music like Ska: Manu Chao/La Rue ketanou/la Ruda Salska/Boulevard des airs/Les Ogres de Barbacks/Debout sur le zinc/Les doigts de L'Hommes/l'Homme parle/etc.
- Electro/Dub-Electro/: C2C/Birdy Nam Nam/Chemicals Brothers/Skrillex/Grammatic/Dubamix/Prodigy/etc.
- Old Rock music: RadioHead/Genesis/Pink Floyd/ACDC/Deep Purple/Metallica/Beattles/Queens/Telephone/etc.
- Indi-Alternative whatever: Lumineers/Angus and Jolia Stone/The Rapture/ Phenix/Artic Monky/etc.
- Some classic, jazz and Irish music too!
 
Movies:

-Tarantino's movies
- Neverland
- How to train your dragon ;)
- Merlin l'enchanteur
- Miasaki 's mangas
- Guy Ritchie movies

Books:

Harry potter (J.K Rowling), 1984 (George Owell)
Alchimist/ Pietra River/The manual of the light warrior (Paulo Coehlo)
On the top of everythings, Heavenly Hirani's School of Laughing Yoga (Sarah-Kate Lynch),
When I was one work of art/ The selfish sect/The part of the other/etc. (Eric-Emmanual Shmitt)
The Sophie's world (?), Mans and mices (Samuel Becket), etc.
Psychologic books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

AIE AIE AIE, for myself, i think i did a lot of cool things.. it's depending of the point of view...
- The most important for me has been to decide to listen my "little voice" and to start to travel

but also...
-To swim with dolphins and turtles in Mayotte ( french island in south of south africa)
-To Bike in Bagan's temples (Myanmar)
-To snorkel with whales-sharks (Australia)
-Volunteering with a family and in one Buddhist orphanage in Nepal.
-Volunteering in a NGO school in Cambodia (just fews days)
-10 Days anatipassana mediation in Thailand
-...

Teach, Learn, Share

I LOVE cooking, so I can learn how to do some dishes.

I can tell some stories about my travel, etc.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My help to do somethings, a lot if smileys, some tips and stories, simple cooking staffs, ... I don't know whatever i can and i feel to do... if i can help! :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Fiji, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Réunion, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France

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