currently hosting in:
📍Quebec City, Canada

I previously hosted in:
🇨🇦 Montréal, Canada
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia
🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
🇲🇽 San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico

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🧠 I mostly get along with creative and neurospicy empaths. My friends mostly have ADHD, are on the autism spectrum or have giftedness... Beautiful minds that think and do things outside of boxes.

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You want to be hosted? My best couchsurfing guests always had some of the following characteristics. They valued:

🐌 Slowness over productivity,
🦋 Mindfulness over habit,
⛲ Participation over consumption,
💐 Kindness over righteousness,
🗨️ Expansion over reduction

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Here are some tips for writing a good request:

📸 Have clear recent face pictures (2 at least)
📝 Get references (by going to cs events or cs hangouts)
🕵️‍♂️ Fill out your profile (with thoughtful text)
💥 I should get a sense that we will connect somehow (so be personal when writing)

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I will write to you a neutral/bad review if you treat my home and me as a hotel and its receptionist. It includes behaviors such as:

🛜 Asking me for my wifi password before asking for my name.
🧹 Not leaving your space cleaner than you found it.
🔗 Leaving my home without having shared any quality time.

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Here are some articles related to who I am:

⚜️📰https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/791635/langue-maternelle-habiter-au-vietnam-pour-se-decoloniser
⚜️📰https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/807182/idees-regarder-ru-tant-quebecois-origine-vietnamienne

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

🏠 WHY I HOST
Happiness is only real when shared.

✈️ WHY I TRAVEL
I travel to study design embedded in past and present cultures...

Intereses

🎸 I am infinitely curious about musical traditions. So far I've learned musical traditions from the Appalachian region, Veracruz, Turkey, Bali, Brazil, Georgia and Hanoi. Let's jam!

🗣️ I'm a language nerd. I'm the kind of guy who reads about grammar before going to bed. I hope to write a descriptive grammar of Laurentian French (spoken along the Saint-Lawrence River.)

🖍️ I used to draw all the time when I was young and became an animator as a career. I teach visual arts and can help you unlock creative thinking.

🎥 I studied cinema. Do you want film recommendations?

🧗 When traveling to cosmopolitain cities, I always bring my climbing shoes. Bouldering is my favorite sport. It's challenging, brainy, non competitive, fun, and a good workout! Up for a daily climb?

🎭 A comedian couchsurfing host introduced me to the art of stand up comedy in Brazil... I then got into improv theatre when I came back to my hometown. I now play in shows from time to time.

• capoeira
• politics
• chess
• bouldering
• woodworking
• snowboarding
• skateboarding
• boxing
• hockey
• jiu jitsu
• animation
• anthropology
• psychology
• linguistics
• ice skating
• stand up comedy
• urban planning
• choir
• calisthenics
• acrobatics
• natural building
• impro theatre
• contact improv
• movement culture
• documentary photography
• knowledge sharing
• community development
• traditional music
• vipassana meditation
• non violent communication
• cohousing
• uxdesign
• documentary filmmaking
• children rights
• tektonik
• georgian polyphony
• indonesian gamelan

Música, películas y libros

🎥Franco-European : Five Devils, Close, Une Femme Douce, L'Argent, Passages, Anatomy of a Fall ...
🎥Quebec: CRAZY, The Decline, Lawrence Anyways, Congorama, Monsieur Lazhar, ...
🎥British/Aus/American realism: God's Own Country, Selfish Giant, Sorry We Missed you, Hail, Gummo, My Own Private Idaho, Doubt, Triangle of Sadness,
🎥 Latin American: Habla con Ella, el Club, Problemista
🎥 Scandinavian: Festen, Dancer in the Dark, the Hunt,...
🎥 Iranian: A Separation, Ten, ...

🎧 MUSIC: Animal Collective, Leif Vollebekk, Foals, Efterklang, Thom Yorke, Nico Muhly, James Blake, Fleet Foxes, King Krule, Sampha, Jai Paul, Jose Gonzalez, Daniel Cesar, S Carey, River Tiber, Doldrums, Obinrin trio, O Terno, Tim Bernardes, Chico Buarque, Maria Bethânia, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elis Regina, Gilberto Gil, ...

📖 BOOKS: A Pattern Language (Alexander), Chairs are where People Go (Misha Glouberman), Light at the Edge of the World (Wade Davis), Impro (Keith Johnston) Theatre of the Oppressed (Augusto Boal), Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paolo Freire), ...

Algo increíble que he hecho

🥣🫂 🧑‍🌾🏘️ 💞 After visiting the "Soup!" project in Detroit City, Michigan, USA, I was inspired to import the project to my hometown in Montreal. I grew vegetables and turned them into soups. I then invited my neighbors for monthly dinners where they would have to vote for a local project lead by an individual in our community. The money raised during the event was granted to the project that the community deemed most important at the moment. This event ran for many years and was called "Soupe Locale". Provincial and municipal governments supported the project and today it exists in different parts of the Quebec province and contributed to hundreds of microfunded projects, stronger neighborhoods and a rise in civic participation.

🏡🏡🏡 I co-founded a non-profit that develops the very first out-of-market and perpetually affordable cohousing projects in Montreal (www.villageurbain.org)

Enseña, aprende, comparte

I love learning about science
I love teaching about urban planning, design, communities
I love sharing about project ideas

Qué puedo ofrecer a los anfitriones

🍷🍜 I'll invite you out to new places in your own city! I don't cook so I will invite you for a dinner at some restaurants.

Países que he visitado

Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Italy, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Viet Nam

Países en los que he vivido

Australia, Canada, Mexico, United States, Viet Nam

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