Sorry, this profile description is meanly out of date, I'll work on a new one soon :)

CURRENT MISSION

Save money to study in Japan !

ABOUT ME

Objectively : I was born in the South of France, and I spent most of my life there, until I moved in Northern Norway for my studies. Now, I'm working in Paris as a research analyst (that's actually quite difficult to explain this job briefly, so I'll pass for now ^^), and after this I'll be done with my studies, which is great, right ?
I'm a bit sad though, because it probably means I'll also be done with all the volunteer jobs I've been doing meanwhile, as a broadcast journalist, a French teacher, a waitress in an international students coffeeshop, a journalist for an English-speaking newspaper... and a couple more jobs I don't even know how to sum up ! They all were wonderful experiences that I'll keep in my heart forever.

Subjectively : I am very easy-going and tolerant, and that's useful because I evolve in a "highly-international" community. I guess I'm a nice person, very eager to discover new things and meet new people... but I guess this is what bring all of us here anyway ! I can be extravagant sometimes, when in a very good mood. I guess I am funny, too, but maybe a little too much sarcastic. Of course I'm very careful with people I don't know well, but don't hesitate to tell me what it is okay to laugh about for you, for the last think I want is to offend you !

Intereses

Movies, especially Asian cinema.
Literature, even if I stopped reading these last two years because too intensive literature studies made me unable to simply enjoy a book.
Trying to learn as many languages as possible and dropping whenever it gets too complicated - still trying to cling to Japanese, though.
Spending entire days just talking to people and playing board/card games.

• books
• literature
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• teaching
• journalism
• languages
• volunteering

Música, películas y libros

If you understand French (even at a basic level), you'll find anything you need to know about my "cultural" tastes on my SensCritique account : http://www.senscritique.com/Shania_Wolf

If you don't, well, I'll try to sum it up for you !

MOVIES
As mentioned above, I'm rather into Asian cinema (mostly Japanese and Korean to be precise). I'm an huge fan of the Japanese director Sion Sono, and Park Chan-Wook is also one of my favorites.
Then, that's quite hard to say 'cause I'm really into movies. I mean, quite obsessive about it, be prepared. But I would put among my favorites :

Himizu & Why Don't You Play in Hell - Sono Sion
Old boy & Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance - Park Chan-Wook
Paprika - Kon Satoshi
Kotoko - Tsukamoto Shinya
The Congress - Ari Folman
Avalon - Oshii Mamoru
Metropolitan - Whit Stillman
and THE LORD OF THE RINGS, because, The Lord of the Rings, that's all...

SERIES
Oh, and while we're here, let's talk about series. Among Western ones, I love Firefly and Game of Thrones.
I also used to watch a lot of animes, mostly seinen and some shônen. My favorites are Shinsekai Yori, Tasogare Otome x Amnesia and Mushishi.

MUSIC
Okay, here I have to confess I've never really been into it, I'm more of a casual listener, but I decided to change that and to earn some musical knowledge !
So far I have no special interests, I kinda like everything, from metal to dubstep including vocaloid... Yeah, that's wide. But I have a special spot in my heart for the bands Within Temptation and Shaka Ponk (the later is French, it's normal if you've never heard of it - in any case these two bands have NOTHING in common...)

BOOKS
Well, still a lot of Japanese stuff (I speak about novels, manga isn't all there is :D), I particularly love the authors Kenzaburo Oe, Jun'ichiro Tanizaki and Yukio Mishima.
Out of Japanese stuff, I really like theater plays, and poesy - yes, right, it's easy to read, but we had a lot of fantastic poets and dramatists in France ! I particularly like the Romantism in poesy and the Classicism in theater. And for some reason, I have a special affection for Platonov, by Tchekov.
More globaly, I like authors who have a poetic or funny writing (Luis Sepulveda, Romain Gary, Jean-Paul Sartre...)
I also like to read about philosophy : Machiavel (oh, did I mention I find the Lannisters more interesting ? please don't kill me), Freud (yes I know he lied about a lot of stuff, but anyway...), Bergson (well, it's quite far now, I have to read more about him), Régis Debray (well, this guy is French AND alive, so you've probably never heard of him).
And, well, I kept from my childhood a weakness for fantasy.

VIDEO GAMES
What ? That's a part of culture too !
I used to play League of Legends a couple of years ago, try to get back. I like RPGs (The Elder Scrolls, The Witcher, etc...), and I've been playing Rift for two years. I really like the Civilization games.
Then I mostly play indie games (my boyfriend is an indie game developer, that kinda helps...)
By the way, I recently fell in love with The Wolf Among Us.

Algo increíble que he hecho

Helicopter over the Grand Canyon and jeep in Monument Valley are two things I really enjoyed. Staying stuck one week in Vegas because of a volcano and a cancelled flight wasn't bad either !
And I've lived in Norway to see the polar night too ! Two entire months without sun - at least that's no reflection on my computer screen !

Países que he visitado

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Malaysia, Monaco, Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Wales

Países en los que he vivido

France, Japan, Norway, Viet Nam