CURRENT MISSION

Provide smiles wherever I am going :) Creating a chain of knowledge accross the world between all the people I meet. Bring thoughts from people to other people.

ABOUT ME

I am someone always happy to wake up the morning to discover a new day, and always complaining when the night comes and we have to go to bed. I would like to stay awake just a little bit more just to enjoy more the time I spend awake, alone or with the people around me, and the fact to be simply alive.

I suppose people would say that I am a smiley person, with a shining face. I love laughing and I think I am a funny person. I enjoy travelling a lot because I like to marvel at the world around, which is just waiting or us and meet new people.
Otherwise I would say curious, open-minded, extravert, lively, adventurous...

PHILOSOPHY

"Provoke your chance"
If you are eager to succeed, eager to accomplish something or whatever, the chance will come. If you don't go the people, if you don't even try, nothing good will come to you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've started in the US for a trip with friends and I've met amongst the most incredible people I've ever seen in the world by opening myself to this new way of travelling.
Now my reasons are kind of basic: I don't have imagination, hence I need to meet people to help me organize my trip. Just kidding. They really are basic: I love couch surfing because I get to meet local people, who know their city, who know their region, who can share something, food, music, thoughts, good plans, etc. A trip is more than just a scenery and a good pub, it's about how people live, how they eat, where they drink, how they work, how they move in the town, how they relate to each other, to their town, to their country, etc. I like to see this and experience it.

Interests

I am eager to learn more about everything: economics, philosophy, biology... I enjoy long, lively (and deep) discussions.

I love travelling, laying down on a roof to look at the stars, cheese - because I m' French I guess- , going to a park to play frisbee or to do slacklining, taking a car and driving without knowing the destination, reading in a tree, being outside... being outside being outside... barefeet.
I do dancing, a lot. I usually dance three to four times a week, lindy hop and blues. I used to teach lindy-hop as well. I love jazz music and blues music, obviously, and I attend workshops, mainly in France, but I travel too.
I'm addicted to photography, and trying to develop something around it.
I also enjoy campfires in the forest, on the beach, dancing, standing up under the rain, music at any time, sleeping in a hammock, pretending that I am acrobat :) .... And eat :)
I also go bouldering once to twice a week with friends.

Otherwise, I work in a NGO in sustainable food and agriculture, and I'm really fond of my job, which, in my opinion, has a meaning.

• writing
• singing
• photography
• concerts
• festivals
• dancing
• environment
• cooking
• cheese
• reading
• traveling
• bouldering
• music
• hiking
• camping
• scuba diving
• biology
• economics
• philosophy
• mountains
• food
• theatre
• cuisine
• climbing
• lindy hop
• good conversation
• good wine
• blues dancing
• camping trip

Music, Movies, and Books

Blues, Jazz, Folk, Indie, Rock, Chanson française ;) ; World music... I need music to live.
I would say "L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être" de Kundera, "La horde du contrevent" et "La zone du dehors" de Alain Damasio, "Train de nuit pour Lisbonne" de Pascal Mercier, "Notes from a Big Country" and "La nuit des Temps"
Movies... too hard, can't think about one

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelling for a month for my friend, who I've known for 25 years, in Indonesia. Nothing extraordinary here, but it does't not have to be crazy to fill you with wonder. We've climbed a volcano, we've waken up at 3 in the morning to watch the sun rising over the same volcano, we've hiked for three days with a guide in a remote place, surrounded by rice fields, sleeping in traditional houses, meeting beautiful human beings, we've done scuba-diving and seen turtles and sharks, we've walked a lot and travelled on a scooter, we've had a scooter accident also, we've eaten many good things... It's not about what we do, it's about how we feel it, how we live the things, how we share it. Being with one of my favorite human beings in the world was an extraordinary experience.

Another trip like this... spending three months in India with another one of my favorite people in the world. Living in a family, that welcomed us as members of their family, travelling during the weekends, living a crazy incredible indian life... that was something!

I also think that the road trip in Australia I have done many years ago with my family was amazing. Just beeing freed from the time... the real freedom. Sleeping in a camping on the middle of nowhere and beeing the only ones there. And enjoy the fact that no city lights can hinder us to gaze at the wonderful sky full of stars. Just to be filled with wonder each day, and driving again and again towards amazing landscapes.

Seeing wild elephants...

Teach, Learn, Share

I think we all have a "petit quelque chose" as we say in France, that is to say "a little something".
I do not know if I have something special to bring to people, but just an exhange about the personal philosophy would be great

I have been thinking a lot about human behaviour in a society, behaviour towards environment and developed theories around these topics that I would be glad to share.

I cook a lot, thus I can teach some stuffs, for instance how to make good crêpes ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

A moment?
A conversation?
A laugh?
A music?
A dance?
A night in a pub?
Everything at the same time?
What they have and are willing to share :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Suriname, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, French Guiana, India, Scotland, United States