CURRENT MISSION

to feel joyfully free to be me :)

ABOUT ME

I love travelling, I love meeting new people from all sorts of different places and get to learn from them, and share things together. Differences between people make each person unique of course, but the thing I love above all is find out that, beneath that 'foreign appearance', we're all the same in the end, we all get happy and sad, enthusiastic at times and doubtful at others, and we all long for each other's company.
For all that too I love this website.

PHILOSOPHY

Hmmm...let's hear some of the great 'written voices' on this subject...

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centrelights pop and everybody goes 'Awww !' " (On the road, Jack Kerouac)

"There's good to be found everywhere. The gods never cease to amaze me. Just when you think you're lost, something wonderful finds you. Just when you think it's over, it's all just begun." (Night swimmer, Robin Schwarz)

"Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you." (Aldous Huxley)

"Not one, looking back, ever really regrets one of his young enthusiasms. It is the enthusiasms we did not have that we regret." (J.W. Mackail)

"What a wonderful world this would be if we all did as well today as we expect to do tomorrow." (Anonymous)

"If you're comfortable with yourself - inside your head - then you can feel at home anywhere." (The closed Circle, Jonathan Coe)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

When I first started couchsurfing, I was 'on the loose' out there in the world and so I couldn't host...I got to know a whole lot of great people on the way by staying at their place. And now that I am back (for a while) in France, I finally get to host too, and so make full circle at last !
Great experience !

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very good indeed :-)

Interests

writing, reading, singing, listening to music, cooking (and getting to know other cultures through their food), Nature, travelling, learning and speaking foreign languages, meeting new people, talking about anything and everything or sometimes not talking at all, just taking it all in..., watching movies, taking pictures, swimming, having fun !

• writing
• singing
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• swimming
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

La guerre est déclarée, Polisse, The King's Speech, Alamar, Incendies, Dr StrangeLove, Pulp Fiction, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Medianeras, Las Acacias, Moulin Rouge, Les Anges Gardiens, Astérix et Obélix Mission Cléopâtre, Little Miss Sunshine, Le Parfum...

Queen, Antony and the Johnsons, CCR, Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum, Chico César, Jeff Buckley, Pink Floyd, Cranberries, Prince, Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin (and more extensively, the whole Woodstock gang), Gogol Bordello, Bob Dylan, Daniel Johnson, Nirvana, Toots, Peter Tosh and many other pioneers...

Shantaram, The Brooklyn Follies, Les Chroniques de San Francisco, Women Who Run With The Wolves, Le Zubial, La Casa de los Espiritus, Life of Pi, Ensemble c'est tout, A long way down, Cosmétique de l'ennemi and others by Amélie Nothomb, La tregua...

Poetry, too: Pablo Neruda, Charles Baudelaire, Federico Garcia Lorca, Khalil Gibran, Philippe Forcioli...

And many, many more...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I sky-dived over the Whitsundays in Australia :D

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help people to learn my language. I could also help them with English and Spanish.
I'd like to learn other languages, among them Italian, Portuguese and Arabic. I wouldn't mind Chinese either ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Norway, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Colombia, France, Spain, Switzerland, United States