### My home is 40 minutes away from the center of Clermont-Ferrand in train ### If you want to discover Auvergne from the countryside perspective ### Charming, calm, best food, lost in the fields ###

Hi there ! I'm a 24 year-old french gap-year student. French is my native language but I speak english and I want to improve my german (I can have basic conversations right now).

I come from french countryside, studied philosophy and now studying business in Paris. I would say I'm very eclectic and passionate. I practiced rowing at high level, love french poetry*, I'm addicted to cold showers (see Wim Hof on Youtube) - yes I am -, curious, open-minded ...
And tall (I'm like 2m02 so 6,6 ft), very tall ...

*You know someone is very passionate when he has a "passionate handmade disastrous website", like not working except on Chrome and on computer ;)
http://www.matthieumagnin.fr/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I hate hotels, "sightseeing" the occidental way, preparing too much my trips. I love to meet people, share funny stories, teach and learn, do unexpected things, give and receive.

I'm looking forward to discovering Berlin, first time ever !

I want to improve my german so that I can read Hesse and Rilke in german !

I'm always respectful and clean and expect my hosts and invitees to be the same.

Interests

• arts
• poetry
• painting
• rowing
• art history
• philosophy
• oil painting

Music, Movies, and Books

Books :
(too many actually, my very essential books and authors)
- French poetry (everything from Rimbaud, Hugo, Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Lautréamont, Saint-Pol-Roux, Théophile Gautier, Aragon, Saint-John-Perse, Eluard ...)
- Rilke and Federico Garcia Lorca are my favorites for foreign poetry
- Philosophy (Nietzsche, Hegel, Greek philosophers, Pascal, Bachelard...)
- Novels (love Hesse, Dostoïevsky, Céline, Hugo ...)

Music :
- Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cortex (troupeau bleu), Herbie Mann (push push) ...
- Old american hip hop and rap (EFX, digable planets, madvillain, a tribe called quest, reijie snow ...)
- Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninov ...
- Funk, James Brown is best
- Jimy Hendrix
- Some sweet electronic music

Films :
- Holy Mountain from Jodorowsky

Teach, Learn, Share

Everything. I'm super curious and try to be open-minded as far as much as I can.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Everything actually

French improvised classes.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, Germany, Israel, Italy, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

France