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Overview

  • 29 references 21 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Russian
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Learning, meeting and partying
  • Social sciences! Geography, sociology and Psychology + Fr...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Reading as many books as possible.

ABOUT ME

Easy going guy, loving adventures and keen on learning from people. I have social sciences background (psychology, sociology and FLE "French as a second language") and I think it helps me to interact properly and usefully with people.
Love partying, walking, cycling, hiking, watching, photographying (we can say that...???), remembering, learning, meeting and freestyling!
And travelling! Now that I'm French teacher for foreigners, I can continue travelling, and in a nice and useful way : while working.
And I don't know what else to say, meet me and you'll see!

PHILOSOPHY

Karma...spread goodness and it will comes back to you.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf some couches and I offer mine.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Mainly surfer since I have been travelling for a while.
Relaxing time at Kazuya's and Louis' in Tokyo.
Good times at Kyle's in Nagoya and at Yayoi's in Osaka. Then in Shikoku with Lachlan and Bennet. And back to Tokyo I stayed at Dylan's.
Plus Hanami gathering.
In Hanoi, 3 days at Luyen's, and 3 also at Decha's ịn Bangkok few days before...
Some pleasant and crazy encounters with Greg and Jason in UK.
Recently I hosted few people : Jim from UK, Stefan from Germany.
And surfed in Romania at Andrei's and Aida's (Bucarest) who just after came at my place in Sofia.
Then at Joop in Rotterdam, Trish in Den Haag.
And now the russian experience...too many people met to continue the list but I'll not forget them. And you...!

Interests

(Crazy) electronic musics
Humans, their psychological functionning and their social organisation
Reading and more reading!
Urban exploration
Photography
Languages...
Just watching new things from my eyes!

  • photography
  • walking
  • partying
  • reading
  • traveling
  • electronic music
  • cycling
  • teaching
  • languages
  • psychology
  • social science
  • sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

OK never ending list in a nutshell:

Tekno (Drop in Caravan, Crystal Distorsion, SP23...), Hardcore (The Outside Agency, Manu le Malin, Ophidian...), IDM (Aphex Twin, Mu-Ziq, Bogdan Raczinski...), Breakcore (Venetian snares, I:gor, Maruosa...) , Hip-Hop/Rap (WU TANG, Roots Manuva, IAM, Puzzle, The streets, Svinkels...), Ambient, Electronica, Classical music...

12 Monkeys, Brazil, This is England, Bernie, Les valseuses, Das Experiment, Cube, Ghost in the shell, Fargo, Irreversible, Doberman, A scanner Darkly...

Victor Hugo: Les miserables, Guy De Maupassant: Une vie, Tom Wolfe: The Bonfire of the Vanities, Mary Shelley: Frankenstein, Irvine Welsh: Filth, Edward T. Hall: Beyond Culture, Naomie Klein: The shock doctrine, Sigmund Freud:The psychopathology of everydaylLife, Philip K. Dick: The three stigmatas of Palmer Eldrich, Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, Leo Tolstoy: War and Peace, Maurice G. Dantec: Babylon Babies, Dostoevsky: The Karamazov brothers...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking on the frozen sea of the Gulf of Finland at St Petersburg. Crazy experience. A bit difficult to realize for my unused brain : I saw all these people walking on it as it was normal but still, the first minutes I was walking like if it was on eggs...! I don't know, it was really crazy and scary for me...!

Teach, Learn, Share

It's open!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good stories with a good beer...? :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bulgaria, France, Netherlands, Russian Federation

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