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Overview

  • 19 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning German, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Composer / PhD Researcher
  • International
  • From Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Finding the present.

ABOUT ME

I need to travel. I compose music, love to take pictures. I'm in love with languages, and sharing all sorts of cultures!

I am passionate about having friends all over the world :)

PHILOSOPHY

There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Right now hosting amazing people and trying to not be too busy for life :)

I'd love to meet cool people and share a bit of my life. I find it so great to meet and connect through traveling!

When I come home, I'll be able to share my couch! :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

GREAT experiences in Norway.

In Sunndalsøra, where I met such interesting people and so humanly wonderful!

In Leknes, where I shared a student appt. with a German student who was so interesting and who showed us around with much love :)

Berlin: Staying in a flat at the last floor of a 6-floor building, accessing the roof, seeing Berlin from its core, taking sounds, sleeping out by the starlight :)

Interests

music, writing, reading, photography, video, design, travels(!), languages, day light, fencing!! I'm an excellent fencer :)

  • culture
  • writing
  • poetry
  • design
  • photography
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • fencing
  • swimming
  • teaching
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Too many!!

Authors: Oscar Wilde, Leonard Cohen, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Erlend Loe, René Char, Paul Chamberland, Réjean Ducharme, Dag Solstad, E.V. Gordon, Melville, Borges,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

SVALBARD!
Swimming in the Baltic Sea in the Latvian Riga Bay (a must, if you ask me).
Attending a Cork poetry event where the poet spoke about my hometown in Irish. W-O-W!

Teach, Learn, Share

music - languages - composition

I actually work as a music teacher, of piano, violin, and trumpet, and have previously taught French and English notions to really a wide range of students! I LOVE to share, and learn new things, especially new languages.

PASSIONATE about culture! And mythologies!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Sweden, United Kingdom

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