Salut ! Je suis tout nouveau sur ce site. J'espère pouvoir trouver et vous aider à trouver du logement lors de nos voyages !

[ENG] I was born in Lebanon and I moved to Montreal 10 years ago. For the longest time I worked towards my dream of becoming a professional drummer, until one day out of the blue a few years ago, I decided I would start studying maths. During my degree at Mcgill, I discovered film photography, which has become an important part of my life.

Here you can see the type of photography I do: https://www.instagram.com/dahdah.ltrm

[FR] Je suis né au Liban et ça fait 10 ans que je vis à Montréal. Pendant longtemps, j'ai poursuivi mon rêve d'être musicien (batterie), et puis il y a quelques années, du jour au lendemain, j'ai changé de cap et j'ai commencé à étudier les maths. Pendant ma licence à Mcgill, j'ai découvert la photographie argentique, qui fait une grande partie de ma vie en ce moment.

Vous pouvez voir ici le genre de photos que je prends: https://www.instagram.com/dahdah.ltrm

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

[ENG] I'm a photographer based in Montreal, currently doing a tour of France that should last 2 and a half months.

I started in Saint Malo, went to Nantes, stayed a long while in Pau (from which I got to visit Biarritz, Saint Jean de Luz, Tarbes, and Bayonne), and I am now in Toulouse.

I hope to continue to see the south of France then work my way up to Paris from where I'll go back home (Montreal) on August 30.

I would love to visit Montpellier, Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Grenoble, Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, and Paris.

Be it a couch, a mattress, a piece of floor to put my sleeping bag on, or even a corner of your or a friend's backyard to pitch my tent in, I would greatly appreciate the effort.

here you can see my photography:

colour: https://www.instagram.com/dahdah.ltrm

black and white: https://www.instagram.com/dahdah.drkrm

Thank you!

[FR] Je suis photographe basé à Montréal et je fais un tour de la France qui devrait durer 2 mois et demi.

J'ai commencé à Saint Malo, je suis passé par Nantes, et je suis resté un bon bout de temps à Pau (d'où j'ai eu l'occasion d'aller à Biarritz, Saint Jean de Luz, Tarbes, et Bayonne) et je suis maintenant à Toulouse.

J'espère continuer de voir le sud de la France avant de remonter vers Paris d'où je prendrai l'avion vers Montréal le 30 août.

J'aimerais bcp visiter Montpellier, Marseille, Cannes, Nice, Grenoble, Lyon, Strasbourg, Lille, et Paris.

Que ce soit un canapé, un matelas, une place où étendre mon sac de couchage, ou même un bout de jardin où je pourrais installer ma petite tente, j'apprécierais énormément votre effort.

Voici ce que je fais comme photographie à Montréal:

couleur: https://www.instagram.com/dahdah.ltrm

noir et blanc: https://www.instagram.com/dahdah.drkrm

Merci !

Interests

• photography
• jazz
• drums
• computer science
• linguistics
• film photography
• maths
• darkroom printing

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Jazz, Jazz fusion, 80's Pop, Classical, Rock (Genesis, Rush, Queen, Jethro Tull, etc...)

Movies:

Pi,
Che,
If...,
Paris,
Tetro,
Triage,
Volver,
Polisse,
Tarzan,
Biutiful,
Moliere,
A.C.A.B,
La Rafle,
La haine,
Magnolia,
Rock Star,
Le mepris,
Annie Hall,
Dans paris,
The Pianist,
El Orfanato,
The Aviator,
Grizzly Man,
Villa Amalia,
Jules et Jim,
L'Arnacoeur,
Jungle Book,
Pirate Radio,
Un prophete,
Bande a part,
The Greatest,
Baisers volés,
L'heure d'ete,
Sykt Lykkelig,
Nowhere Boy,
Boogie Nights,
The Lion King,
The Dreamers,
Goya's Ghosts,
Le petit soldat,
The Edukators,
The Sea Inside,
L'age d'homme,
L'amour en fuite,
Full Metal Jacket,
Masculin féminin,
A bout de souffle,
The Ghost Writer,
Waltz with Bashir,
Broken Embraces,
Domicile conjugal,
The Skin I Live In,
Antoine et Colette,
The Hunting Party,
Prete-moi ta main,
Twelve Angry Men,
La Mala Educacion,
Burn After Reading,
La fille du puisatier,
Les poupees russes,
The bang bang club,
The Oxford Murders,
A Clockwork Orange,
L'auberge espagnole,
All About my Mother,
You Don't Know Jack,
Le coeur des hommes,
The Parking Lot Movie,
Les quatre cent coups,
The Motorcycle Diaries,
The Talented Mr Ripley,
Le pere de mes enfants,
Asterix mission Cleopâtre,
Exit Through the Gift Shop,
Une femme est une femme,
Le scaphandre et le papillon,
Je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas,
De battre, mon coeur s'est arrêté,
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain.

...and many more!

Shows:

Suits,
Louie,
Narcos,
Friends,
Sherlock,
French news,
Monty Python,
The Good Wife,
Stranger things,
House of Cards,
Downton Abbey,
Game of Thrones,
Jeeves and Wooster,
A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Also: Glow, Easy, Riverdale, Dix pour cent, Dear White People, Sense8, Black Mirror, New Girl, The Crown, Girl Boss, Gilmore Girls, Mad Men, Lovesick, and many more..

Books:

Harry Potter,
Les mains sales,
Sherlock Holmes,
Carlos Ruiz Zafon,
Evolution (Larson),
Frederic Beigbeder,
La melodie secrete,
Michel Houellebecq,
The History of Middle-Earth,
The Gun Seller (Hugh Laurie),
Tolkien (especially The Silmarillion. Epic!)

Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Slaughterhous Five, Animal Farm, The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, Down and Out in Paris and London.

Also read Humour 1900 - written in the sixties about French humour from the 1840s to the 1920s. You gotta love French humour.

Now I'm rereading Beigbeder's books and Houellebecq. After that I plan on reading Kundera.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Amazing but also a silly waste of time amd energy: I memorized the first 5000 digits of Pi in highschool

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to learn from you and/or teach you about drumming, darkroom printing, street photography, speaking Spanish, speaking Italian (more learning than teaching), speaking French, English, or Arabic (I'm fluent in all three), linguistics, computer science, and philosophy.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can give drumming lessons, show how to use your dad's old film camera, talk to you about darkroom printing, help you practice English, French, or Arabic, and help you with your maths on the off chance that you need it ahah

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Croatia, France, Guatemala, Jordan, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Lebanon