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  • Fluent in English; learning Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Student, Supervisor at Fat Face
  • BA French and Arabic, UCL/SOAS
  • From London, United Kingdom
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Visit every Sam Smith's pub in Zone 1 of London

ABOUT ME

French and Arabic student in London. Kind of obsessed with languages, culture, grammar, music, literature, film,history etc. If it exists, I'm interested in it, even if just to see why other people are (and then I'll normally become interested)

PHILOSOPHY

Everyone deserves dignity, respect and a lot of fun.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfed a little in the summer of 2010, mainly in Eastern Europe. Very good experiences all round.

Interests

Everything. Love languages and learning about new cultures (although who on CS doesn't?). Music, calligraphy,reddit, beer, walking up tall things or long distances.

  • culture
  • literature
  • beer
  • walking
  • pub crawls
  • music
  • calligraphy
  • history
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: bit of everything. If it was written in the 60s, I like it from Buffalo Springfield to Lou Reed to the Rolling Stones to Nina Simone. Lots before or since, from Tchaikovsky to Brand New.

Movies: Film Noir (The Third Man), anything with police (The Wire, Engrenages, Forbrydelsen), anything about Ireland (The Commitments, In the Name of the Father, The Wind that Shakes the Barley) and V for Vendetta (favourite movie).

Books: Nabokov, Orwell, Rand, Tales of the Nasr e Din Khoja, Joyce. (I read a lot, especially when travelling)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walked 200km around Romania with a donkey (and my dad) at the age of 8.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, China, United Kingdom

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