HELLO CS COMMUNITY :)
About me... in a few words... i'm a girl, mama was from Long Beach California and dady polish french, a funky french. I'm Lily, i'm 31 years old, and I was using CS more than 10 years ago. I traveled and I hosted. Experiences that made me grow, stories to share, and many laughs.
Only, in 2011, I broke up with a crazy brasilian Alehandro, and he was so mad he changed all my codes : gmail, phone, facebook, CS, everything gone. And it was such a bad memory, it fucked up all the beautiful memories of a year in a half relationship. So... to sum it up, I can give confidence easily, but now I'm careful, I love meeting people who travel the world (my family runs a hotel in Paris, and I'm used to seeing people traveling). This "smile on the face..., I've seen the Louvre..., I've walked 5km! , I've eaten new flavours, I'm turning into a better person" These sentences are important and they come out when you travel... I try to be easy going, have a smile on my face as often as possible. Friends say I'm a sunny person. I'm a lion (astrological sign). I play the cello. Friends also prevent me from saying someone is too talkative!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HEY... I'm ON COUCHSURFING
for 2 reasons : - I love meeting new people from far far far away or running a life far far far from mine.
-I hate spending my money in a hotel.... (overpriced) and I'd rather live with the rythm of the city.

The concept of exchanging :
I can teach you a few things on theatre techniques, on yoga, on cooking.
We can talk about everything, but I'm more listening when it gets to physics... not in philosophy!

Interests

I HAVE INTERESTS IN ART :
I love to do , to explore, to see, to smell PAINT, THEATRE, MUSIC_ especially playing with my trio band Débussy's music or going out on sunday evening to listen to an underground jam session in Ménilmontant, in a random bar. Theatre I used to act a lot, I graduated with a thesis around the subject that Augusto Boal and Paolo Freire called "the theatre of the oppresssed". I lost the ability of acting at a moment when my father was strugling with his life; I put all that on to the cello, that can handdle it all ;)
I AM SO CURIOUS :
I love to travel, to go places I haven't been before, I love surprises, I try to wake up early to read a little bit.
I LOVE TO USE MY APP DOWNDOG (the best yoga app) or ATTEND A YOGA CLASS
I just finished the book of ALbert CAMUS, The myth of Sisyphes_ it was great advice on how to remain in this concrete reality rather than being fooled by absurdity.
I CAN COOK VEGETABLES, PASTAS, SALADS, FISHS and salty dishes and I LOVE TO DO SO and TALKING ABOUT IT.

• writing
• music festivals
• wine
• painting
• classical music
• world music
• cycling
• swimming
• albert camus
• spirituality
• theatre
• language
• jam sessions
• rollerblading
• california
• musique
• cello
• english language
• yoga and meditation
• theatre of the oppressed
• personnal development
• cooking together

Music, Movies, and Books

At the moment I'm listening to Stacey Kent.. good jazz... Monk, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Louis Amstrong,
Keith Jarrett, also acid jazz, world jazz, also rock french rock , Noir Désir, Téléphone, Paris Combo, Mademoiselle K, Rita Mitsouko, Mano Negra Louise Attaque, Dionysos, Alain Baschung and Cloé Mons-le cantique des cantiques, Thiéfaine...
us rock : Garbage, Beach Boys, Red hot chilli peppers, Radiohead, David Bowie, Queen, Gun's Roses, Bon Jovi
french singers : Jacques Brel (belge) Claude Nougaro, Brassens, Aznavour,
Italian singers : Patrizia Laquidara, Battisti, De andré, Nobraino, Alessandro Mannarino

Le péril jeune, Klapish- Blow up, Antonioni- Mamma Roma, Pasolini- Jules et Jim, Truffaut
How to kill a mocking bird, Mulligan- Le grand bain, Gilles Lelouche

Elena Ferrante -la quadrilogie de l'amie prodigieuse, Albert Camus, Zola, Maupassant, Steinbeck, Jack Kerrouac... and I try to buy a newspaper.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have tried a cello that just had been constructed by the luthier, I new him. So in a church, I've played with the best alchimia, and than I spoke and smoked with the father of the church:)

*I've been part of a theatre company in Bologna, Italy, that did theatre with prisonners (we played Dostoievski, L'idiot, Cerventes, Don Quichotte, Flaubert, Bouvard et Pecuchet...)

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach : I'm a teacher in elementary school, I prefer tiny kiddoes or bigger ones (9 or 10) but I'm about to swich to teaching to teenagers (aiaiae). I can teach you or "put you in the conditions to learn" I mean by that mentally conditionning the purpose and the goal of tha knowledge you wanna learn, giving you exercices, or paper to draw :)
Learn : I"m an eternal learner_ I believe in Life Long Learning !!!
-) stories, I would like to learn funny stories and learn how to tell them without forgetting the end, or saying it before the rest. ->tips on learning hebrew
Share: I believe in what you give in a certain way, one day or an other, will return.
-> watching a movie and talking about it -> cooking -> making music

What I Can Share with Hosts

Share: I believe in what you give in a certain way, one day or an other, will return.
-> watching a movie and talking about it -> cooking -> making music
-> yoga or meditation activities -> excercising

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cuba, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Hungary, Italy