CURRENT MISSION

Échanger pour découvrir et nous enrichir dans l'échange

Exchange to discover and enrich ourselves through exchanges

ABOUT US

We are a couple of French students. I speak currently Spanish and my girlfriend, Anne-Sophie speaks currently English. We are 24 and 18 and we'd like to travel as much as we possibly can. We would like to share our culture and learn to know others. Last year, I was studying in Hypokhâgne and this year-to-be I am going to study Fine Arts. My girlfriend is studying history in university.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

En dépit des apparences, l’altérité est le parent pauvre de notre culture, qui favorise l’individualisme et incite à former des groupes de « mêmes ».
Pourtant, rien n’est plus fécond que la rencontre avec la différence, l’étrangeté inhérente à l’autre : elle est source d’étonnement, d’enrichissement et de renforcement de sa propre identité. Accueillir celui qui ne nous ressemble pas, mais qui nous respecte, bouscule nos croyances et nos préjugés. Accueillir l’autre dans notre univers, recevoir sa différence nous permet également d’éprouver nos limites, nos valeurs et notre capacité à nous remettre en question. Cette ouverture – d’esprit et de territoire – développe notre empathie et réduit nos peurs imaginaires, toutes fondées sur la crainte de l’inconnu.

In spite of appearances, the otherness is the poor relationship of our culture, which inclines the individualism and incites to form groups of "same". Nevertheless, nothing is more fertile than the meeting with the difference, the strangeness inherent to the other one: it is source of surprise, enrichment and strengthens our own identities. Welcome the one who does not look like us, but who respects us, pushes aside our faiths and our prejudices. To welcome the other one in our universe, to receive its difference also allows us to experience our limits, our values and our capacity to question. This opening - of spirit and territory - develops our empathy and reduces our imaginary fears, quite established on the fear of the unknown.

Interests

L'art, la cuisine, la poésie, l'opéra, boire du vin, regarder des oiseaux croquer dans une pomme. J'aime tout même ce que je n'aime pas.

Art, cooking, poetry, operas, drinking wine, watching birds eat an apple. I like evrything even what I don't like. My girlfriend, Anne-Sophie, enjoys cinema as well as everything just said.

• birds
• arts
• culture
• humanities
• poetry
• festivals
• cooking
• wine
• drinking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• history

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

J'ai vécu avec une longue maladie, une leucémie de 3 ans et 2 greffes de moelles osseuses qui me font voir la vie autrement ! et un magnifique tour d’Europe !!! Des rencontres géniales, des festivals d'Art, de la Politique ...
Anne-Sophie a fait un échange scolaire de 3 mois dans le Vermont aux Etats-Unis. Elle est allée au lycée là-bas et a eu deux familles d'acceuil. Ce voyage a vraiment changé sa façon de penser.

I lived with a long disease, a leukaemia of 3 years and 2 osseous marrow transplants which show me the life differently! And a magnificent trip around of Europe! Brilliant meetings, festivals of Art, the Politics...
Anne-Sophie has done a journey in Vermont,USA for 3 months. She went to high school there and had two foster families. This trip has really changed her point of view and way of thinking.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France