26-year-old girl, just starting her PhD in applied linguistics (I am studying the terminology of climate change), I have been living in Paris for 4 years and I've spent 1 year in South Africa for my master degree, aaaaaaand I guess that the rest are things that might come out during a conversation, we want to keep things natural right :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Well, to meet new people and come across new experiences, new ways of living one's day-to-day life/ lifestyles, new views, ideas, cultures, like everyone else here I guess ! (wow I wrote this sentence two years ago when i started couchsurfing, and JEEZ, i was kind of presumptuous!!!) (and almost rude, wasn't i)

Interests

My thing is drawing and watercolour, I also very much like my work, like really, maybe a bit too much, as I tend to put it before a lot of things... which makes my travels abroad a NECESSITY for me to stay balance and not get absorbed too much by the acitvities i love so much doing on an everyday basis.

• cooking
• yoga
• meditation
• drawing
• philosophy
• cinema
• performance art
• watercolour
• nutrition
• psychoanalysis
• climate change science
• phytotherapy
• women circle

Music, Movies, and Books

Musical pillars: The Knife, Fever Ray, Bjork, Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Michael Jackson, Tracy Chapman, Jenny Hval, Colin Stetson, Wardruna, Dead Can Dance, Cocorosie, alt-J, Arcade Fire, Gazelle Twin, Bob Dylan, Car Seat Headrest, Eartheater, Lou Doillon

Films: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, Hero, Lost River, Only God Forgives, Only Lovers Left Alive, Memoirs of a Geisha, Lord of the Rings, High Life, Saint Laurent, Jodorowsky's movies ... movies that make me feel like doing a screencapture and shazam the BO, movies that stimulate all senses at once

Books: Rousseau -Les Confessions, The Flavor Thesaurus - Niki Segnit, Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman, Marcus Aurelius - Meditations, Mende Nazer - Slave: My true Story, Aimé Césaire - Notebook of a Return to The Native Land and I know that I should say Harry Potter without blushing

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to cook healthy, maybe a bit of drawing even though I consider myself more as a student in this, and meditation techniques
I have a skateboard that is waiting for someone to teach me how to brake :(
I love to talk about climate change and about the future and about altered states of consciousness!!
And about beauty

What I Can Share with Hosts

What I would like to share with my guests? I don't really have precise expectations, good conversations I guess, and not even, if it is just about sharing the space, it's ok too!!!. But actually I think the most important for me is that everyone is able to be oneself during the stay.

Countries I’ve Visited

England, Estonia, Germany, South Africa

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, South Africa