CURRENT MISSION

traveling the world to understand its complexity and its diversity !

ABOUT ME

A very important thing in my life is music. I'm not obsessed with it, but without music my life feels really empty : I spend most of my time between the university, the conservatory, rehearsals and concerts.

At the university I study law, and maybe one day I'll work in the sector of intelectual property. At the conservatory I study music, but more precisely lyrical singing (as in Pavaroti singing, even if I don't have his voice, sadly) and one day maybe I'll be famous ! But right now I know that I'm only a student and that I still have a lot to learn.

Singing gave me the opportunity to travel the world, going every summer since 2000 on a tour in different countries around the globe to sing for concerts in beautiful big cities such as New York, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Paris, Roma, etc. And the more I travel, the more I realise that I don't know anything about the rest of the world and that like most of the people on Earth I'm full of prejudice. But I'm working on it and I want to go everywhere in the world to discover new cultures and expend my knowledge.

An other thing at least as important for me as music is friends : old ones and new ones alike.I love meeting new people, especially foreigners so I can learn more about their language or their culture, where they are from, what they know about the world, I love earing about the travels they made, people they met and odd things they lived. And I'm always happy to tell my stories as well and compare my experience with other people !

PHILOSOPHY

I think that life is short, you meet a lot of people in your life and the world is a tiny place, so why beeing sad when someone leaves ?
I met a lot of people from a lot of different countries and I decided to stop being sad when I say goodbye (even if that doesn't work very well sometimes) because I realised that you will always stay in touch with the people that really matter, and for some of them you'll keep on meeting them in your country, in their country or in other random places around the globe.
I'm always smiling and trying to help people around me, you will rarely see me sad !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

CS for me is a community of people who, like me, love to travel, meet new people, try new things, eat weird food, try to speak several languages, share their experience but most of all CS is for me a community of open-minded and very kind people : who else would let strangers stay at their place with their arms wide open ?

Sadly, I currently can't house anyone but as soon as I move and get my own place I'll be very happy to welcome and house people, share experience with them, hang out and show my beautyful city !

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm very new to the CS community but I travel a lot and have already a lot of experience very similar to the ones you can live with CS.
As I said before, every summer I go on a tour for a month in a different country, staying in every city for 2 or 3 nights with different people who offer to share a room, a spare bed or a couch. I mostly keep good memories of this stravels, of the people housing me, and it is a fantastic way of discovering the true culture of a country, eating what they eat, trying to speak some of their language, going out where they go out... in a word : trying to live like them !
I enjoyed staying with everyone of the people who housed me. Some of my favorite were for instance in japan with an old lady who housed me but could only speak japanese. We spend several days speaking to each other with hand gesture or by drawing stuff on paper. That was hillarious!
Another experience I had that made me cry was the first time I went to Brazil, I stayed with a friend in a family of 5 (the parents and the 3 children) and arriving in their (very small and humble) house they showed us our room with plenty of place for our things and two confy beds. After the first night, just after breakfast and before going out of the house me and my friend we realized that te 5 of them slept on the same bed in the parent's room to let us have a bed each. At this moment I realized that some people are willing to put everything aside to let you have the best stay, and the kindness of these people made me cry.

Interests

Every day during summer I go out rollerblading or biking in the sun. I love going to the Parc with my friends to eat picnic or just playing cards in the grass, soccer or epic water battles sometimes with strangers !
During winter I mostly stay inside, studying, reading or browsing the web and once in a while I go skiing or snowboarding with my friends or family.
And all year long I enjoy cooking, I don't do anything special, every meal is different from the other but give me a fridge and a closet full of food and I'll cook you a little something, sometimes I try weird combinations and most of the time it turns out to be good ideas.
During the night I go out a lot in the old medieval part of my city, that's the place where you find a lot of irish pubs, and that is where I go to meet new people, mostly foreigners.

• culture
• singing
• concerts
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• picnic
• pub crawls
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• cycling
• skiing
• snowboarding
• soccer
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

I love music in general, but since I study classical music that's the kind of music I enjoy the most and the only one who gives me goosebumps.
the artists that I like the most are Sinatra, Ray Charles, the Beatles...
I read a lot, I started very young with Tolkien, then read a lot of Asimov, Frank Herbert, Robin Hobb, Oscar Wilde, Maupassant, Malraux, Hugo,...
I just finish reading The Strain by Del Toro & Hogan and I started the old classic Dracula (Stoker).
about movies I am a big fan of th universe Tim Burton creates (even in his poetry), I like the "old" classics like old french movies, the godfather, the blues brothers, the green line, the monty python, Almodovar, kubrick, Lynch...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

a HUGE firework in Tokyo, the Corcovado in Rio, the Empire State Building in NY, the Tour Eiffel in Paris, the Hassan II Mosque in Casablanca, new year's eve (99/2000) singing an official concert at St Peter in Roma 10 meters behind the pope in front of thousands people, the Golden Temple in Kyoto, the Tōdai-ji in Nara (the largest wooden building in the world housing the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana), the cathedral in Köln, le chateau de Versailles, the Western Wall in Jerusalem, ....

Teach, Learn, Share

I could teach a bit of the basis of singing and music reading. I Would gladly help my host with the cooking, I think it is a very nice and simple way of getting to know someone, giving new ideas to the making of the meal and ending up doing something that is a mix of different cultures.
I also like to share and exchange some of my stories and I can't be tired of earing new ones !

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

France