CURRENT MISSION

Taking time for myself, explore horizons and find out where I truelly belong

ABOUT ME

I am a Biology student, specialized in Microbiology and an aspiring Public Health officeer. After finishing my highschool back in Addis, I moved to Toulouse, France to pursue my studies. It's a beautiful city, also known as "La ville Rose" , meaning "the pink city"-seriously it's true, every corner of this place is magical, just makes you smile :)

My Toulouse experience has helped me discover who I am; like being able to interact with different kinds of pple from diverse places of all ages; I'm very curious about nature's work; Inner peace is vital in my life and all the love one can give.

Basically easy going, open mindedness and patience are some of the vocabularies you'd find in my book. Not to spoil the story of my life, I'll let you discover by yourself ;)

PHILOSOPHY

Each day is a gift, an opportunity to live our lives to the fullest, a chance to do right.

As a certain Confucious said: "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can host, have received guests in my home country and in the US. Also willing to surf, spent a night at a CSers home in New Jersey for the first time this year! Quite an experience :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have met and hosted one the most interesting pple coming from different parts of the world. Hopefully, I'll be able to see them again somewhere somehow ! and continue couchsurfing ;)

Interests

Normally I'd tell you that I'm keen on painting aquarells, read thriller and historical books, play tennis and enjoy a fine home made injera ( traditional food in ethiopia). In the past few years, I've come to develop new hobbies: going to afrojazz and soul music concerts, baking cakes and cookies, hiking up in the Pyrénées mountains, have some tea along with delicious french pasteries, enjoy cultural, philosophical debates...and more!

• books
• concerts
• dining
• baking
• painting
• music
• hiking
• tennis
• biology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Casablanca, 12 Years a slave, the Green Mile,the Notebook, Titanic, Divergent, Rush Hour, Meet the Parents, Shawshank Redemption, Home Alone, Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Finding Nemo, Bienvenue chez les Chtis, Memoirs of a Geisha, Intouchables...
Music: Ethiopian Jazz-Mulatu Astatke, New Orleans Soul music-Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, Blues, Swing-Michael Bubble, Raggae, Classical, Orchestra soundtrack-Hans Zimmer...
Books: All of Dan Brown's books, Harry Potter, the Help, the Kite Runner, Hundreds of Splendid Suns, the Chamber, the Secret,Far away and Long ago,...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Help out teenagers with their school work and bring out the joy of learning new things.
Hiking in the Alpes during the Summer breeze and the Pyrénées, in winter.
Prepare injera for the first time for the Ethiopian New Year's Feast without being sure of the steps, and succeed.
Was interviewed at the AEFE's 20 Years Anniversary for my experience as a scholar in France.

Countries I’ve Visited

Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ethiopia, France