My name is Laure, i'm 31 and in couple with Arno since 2 years now. We live in Paris together and we love meeting new people espcially from differents country. For example, i'm in Paris since 5 years (i came for a master's degree in cinema) and i used to have international roomates as a lovely brazilian, or two italians. When i did my sociology degree in Bordeaux where i come from, i also used to live with an american and an english singer !
As me, Arno loved travelling. He lived during 6 months in New York in his twenties and between Ibiza and Paris during 6 years. In Ibiza, he felt in love with the nature and the hippy mood that you can find there, not really for the clubbing side. There, he discovers his passion for cactus and he was obsessed with them during several years. With time, he had a crazy collection in his garden in Ibiza and he makes a brand called Ibiza cactus. Arno is also known as a french photographer because he worked with Michael Jackson when he was young. Both of us are in love with music, and what Arno prefers to do in his work is working with singers. He did several clips for french artist but also for americans. If you are interested you can find his work on internet if you google Arno bani or in instagram with the same name.
For my part, i lived 7 months in Manchester when i was young and i really miss to live in a different country because i loved the feeling of being an expat. I study sociology because at first i wanted to be a journalist but i was overtaken by my passion for cinema and i decided
to resume studies to do a master in cinema's production in Paris where i met Arno because we were neighbors !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Arno and I love to meet new people and would like to make an exchange with cool people who can come to visit us in Paris and vice versa. We will be happy to help them to discover Paris.
For example, during my studies, i worked in the lovely museum of Montmartre and i used to make visit with small groups and talk about the incredible history of this area and i would be happy to bring you here if you are interested !
At the moment, we do work in the house, but you are welcome in the living room if you're not to scared of a little mess. Of course it's temporary, and we project to buy and confortable sofa that turns into a bed. Our house is pretty cool and in the center of Paris.

Interests

Music, Cinema and Art are our center of interest. We love also follow the news but not the depressing ones. Actually we loved everthing that touch of creativity. However, we are also interest of different people than us because we think we can learn a lot of things of different people than what we are. So if you love sport, nutrition or others hobbies and not really art it's also ok ;)

• sociology
• cinema
• people
• travels
• humanity

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most crazy aventure Arno lived was his meeting with Michael Jackson. He was only 23 years and he didn't believe his agent when he called him to say that Jackson saw a photo of Arno in a magazin and wants to meet him. That change his career. To me, it's a bit less huge (sorry), but the most incredible adventure i lived is in my first filming of a movie called "Mother" in spanish with a director famous in spain called Rodrigo Sorogoyen It was stressfull but very intense !

Countries I’ve Visited

England, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

England