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Overview

  • 5 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • student
  • Sociology
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Accept life as it is and settle near a surf beach

ABOUT ME

For the past 4 years, I have been living in Australia. Originally, I came to do my studies. I did a Masters in Social Policy and started my PhD in sociology. I always had a deep interest and concern for social matters. Living in Australia made me more aware environmental issues and it opened me to question of land and wild life conservation. I love nature and hiking, and in the future I would like to work in that area. I love the Victorian surf coast and had an amazing time walking in the Toolangi forest.

PHILOSOPHY

I believe in tolerence, thank to others tolerance in occasion I have been able to integrate in societies where I was a complete stranger. I believe that tolerance is a basic moral principle that make the very existence of communities possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to participate by hosting people and showing around my town - or the place I currently live in!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

When I was in Senegal I met a few couch surfers. We travelled, surfed, shared tea (that's a whole ritual) just had an awesome time hanging out. It was a very supportive experience and I had great fun. Since then, I was occasionally hosted or just met people through couch surfing.

Interests

Surf, yoga, hiking, travelling. Movies and literature. I also like theatre

  • literature
  • yoga
  • walking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • sociology
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Suddenly Last Summer; Whose is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ; Fool for love ; Death of a Salesman ; Le Sas ; Dans la solitude des chants de cotons ; Working (Terkel)

Music: electronic music, house, minimal techno, electronica, disco, funk (with moderation though :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Senegal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Vanuatu

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France

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