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Overview

  • 4 references
  • Fluent in Arabic (Tunisia), English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Bambara
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2014
  • Learning permaculture and organic farming
  • Engineer in renewable energies
  • From Fontainebleau, Seine-et-Marne, France
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About Me

Salut :) Alors comment commencer? Et bien j'ai bossé comme ingénieur pendant 8 ans sur Montpellier, pour de grands groupes pour qui le mot éthique n'avais pas trop de sens (et pourtant c'était pour faire du renouvelable). Alors j'ai tout plaqué pour aller faire du wwoofing pendant 2 ans en Amerique du Sud. Depuis je suis installé dans les montagnes cévenoles, où je jongle entre un potager en permaculture pour viser l'autonomie alimentaire, et un nouveau métier d'éduc spé dans un centre qui accueille de jeunes migrants.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Pour accueillir du monde à l'endroit où je vis, et rencontrer de nouvelles personnes lorsque je voyage :)

Interests

Permaculture, agro-ecology, renewable energies, hand made stuff, alternative solutions to get out of the "system".
Trekking, camping in nature, make a fire into the wild and look at the stars.
Capoeira, and some times forro and caïpirinhas ;)
Books (reading and writing).

  • writing
  • books
  • capoeira
  • recipes
  • wine
  • red wine
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • hiking
  • camping
  • ecology
  • engineering
  • languages
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Music : bossa nova, jazz and some wired french bands that nobody knows.
Movies : Cloud Atlas, The man from earth.
Books : It (Stephen King), Ten little niggers (Agatha Christie), Phoenix (Bernard Simonay)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Just before I quit my job, we had a project in Burkina Faso, to install solar panels, with European Union subventions. In the technical specifications they wanted to cut baobab trees (which are sacred trees for native people there) and treat the roots with glyphosate (a very dangerous and carcinogenic product). I managed to explain that it was a non sense, and no company (mine of any else) could do that things.

Teach, Learn, Share

Languages, recipes, a glass of red wine. Stories of travel, hitch-hiking and nice surprises.

What I Can Share with Hosts

All my enthusiasm ;) a good meal, anything we can have in common.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, Colombia, England, France, Germany, Guadeloupe, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Peru, Réunion, Senegal, Spain, Tunisia, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, Tunisia

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