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Overview

  • 17 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • French primary teacher
  • No education listed
  • From Bordeaux, Gironde, France
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About Me

We are a family of 4 living in Hong Kong. We are food and nature lovers.
Once upon a time, I used couchsurfing a lot. I would like to give it another try as a family.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

A given smile create another smile ...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

One night, we found 3 guys doing Santiago de Compostela's walk. They didn't Know where to sleep, so they ended up on our couch.
This was couchsurfing before the website was even created.
I went to greece, London, réunion island and to Madrid thanks to couchsurfing.

We hosted :
- an english guy,
- a latvian woman,
- a polish guy
- a venezuelian
- 2 polish girls
- a french guy and an italian
- a polish guy
- a french girl
- a colombian guy
- 2 korean girls
- a chinese girl
- a ukrainian girl and her spanish boyfriend
- a german girl
- another german girl
- a nice swiss couple
- another german girl
- a mauritian
- a german couple

Interests

Cooking and eating
Books, music, contemporary art, architecture, cinema
Nature, wildlife, hiking
Sport : racket sports, running, trail and more !

Music, Movies, and Books

Edward and the magnetic zero, au revoir Simone, the kills, cults, bloc party, portishead, fink, dillon, beirut, cocorosie, alt-J, noir desir, syd matters, sigur ros, feist, asaf avidan, cat power ... and so many else !

My favourite authors are François Bégaudeau and Milan Kundera

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I really enjoyed volunteering in southeast Asia, I met great people and learned more than I usually do when I travel

Teach, Learn, Share

How our environment/education make us who we are ? I love talking with people from different origins trying to understand what they think on general matters : love, education, relationships, work...

I like learning about food and education

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Greece, Honduras, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Philippines, Réunion, Spain, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore

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