ABOUT ME

Well, my name is Cyril, I was born in Washington DC in 1987, from a French couple, my father being a diplomat and my mother working in the high administration.

I lived most of my life in Paris (18 years out of 23). The rest I lived it in Geneva, Switzerland, a lovely country that I now consider as my second hometown.

I've always loved languages and lived in an international environment. I got a masters in translation in English and Italian. I now study Japanese too.

PHILOSOPHY

You can do whatever you want in life, as long as it does not harm anybody else.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't had any so far. In fact, the only CouchSurfing experience I've ever had was a CouchSurfing party in Rimini where I learned more about the site and where I met plenty of interesting people from Bologna, Poland, Germany...

Interests

• environment
• cooking
• partying
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite movie : selecting just one is very hard but I would definitely say Virgin Suicides, though I have a thing for Won Kar Wai's movies (In The Mood For Love is incredible... lately, I was very impressed with My Blueberry Night). Then there are two other movies that I just LOVE : Paris, Je t'aime and Memoirs of a Geisha.

Music : mostly R'n'B but I adore Sharleen Spiteri's band Texas. I also enjoy Japanese singers (J-pop) as well as Italian ones (Luciano Ligabue first!!)

Books : I really opened up to reading only two or three years ago when I got to university. However my favorite book is one I read a looong time ago, a book for children called Skellig. It was a very sweet story, of a little boy moving into a new house who found a fallen angel in his backyard cabin.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Things I've seen that were a little... disturbing : a street sweeper, a homeless and a preist, the three of them wearing Dolce & Gabbana shades in Rome... go figure!

Then the most amazing thing : the Dune Rose ("Pink Dune") in Mali. It was part of a two-week trip there... Thinking about it still gives me the shivers.

Teach, Learn, Share

Cook your pasta with grenadine sirup, it's delicious!!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Mali, Mauritius, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland