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Overview

  • 4 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning German
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2016
  • Enjoy life and creativity
  • Master European Studies, Communication and Public Relatio...
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About Me

Love my family, love being home.
I enjoy seeing: colours, landscapes, funny decorations and the people I love.
I enjoy, then; traveling !

Living in France since 10 years ago, I feel a lot of empathy with travelers, and other people in my situation.
I like writing, reading, writing. I also like photograph and filmmaking (even thought I am supposed to do it in a more professional way, I still do it as an amateur).
Dancing is my passion, right now I am into African dance (what an energy thing!).
I like taking care of my plants, singing (eventhought I don't know how to do it proprerly...), playing the ukulele (a little cliché, I know).
The best stories I know are the stories incredible people have told me ! My grand grand father, for exemple... people I've met in airplanes, or at work. These, I like listening to.
I like hanging out with friends in small groups, and enjoy of nice dinners and conversations.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I guess its time to get into the adventure ! I had couchsurfed outside couchsurfing, like when I arrived to Canada. I also experienced other kind of "kindness", when people I met in the streed volunteered to show me the city and local transportation.
In the flat I used to live with my roommates we couchsurfed ? We hosted very nice people.
Then I worked with european youth exchanges, then, my motivaiton to discover the world throught interculturality became BIGGER.

Lets do this !

Interests

  • writing
  • design
  • photography
  • human rights
  • cooking
  • reading
  • music
  • hiking
  • sports
  • languages
  • volunteering
  • art
  • filmmaking
  • food
  • plants
  • family
  • landscapes
  • handcrafts
  • fairtrade
  • beachlife
  • information technology
  • interculturality

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: folk music; Ravi Shankaar, jazz women voices. Rock: from blues to Grunge. Ska and punk reminds me my youth, I think I'm still young; so; still in my playlists!
A bit of elektro, like Nu, Nicolas Jaar or Chet Faker. Now getting into the ukulele, influenced by my housband, who enjoys playing the piano home.

Movies: Lola's rent, Mr Nobody, Stand by me, Sophia Coppola, Tom Twyker... I also like comedies, thrillers and series.

I enjoy theatre, but as "foreigner" I should do it more often. I do enjoy music and film festivals a lot !

Books: all but love stories books. Recently reading The Son from Philipp Meyer.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One thing that really makes me smile when I remember it is... volunteering experiences. Non of them has turned bad, never EVER !

Hiking is something I was scared of. Since I began to travel I have been overcoming this fear. The worst (amazing) might be in Cypruss in the "Bains of afrodita". I was sure I was going to fall from the (precipice)?!, I didn't, I felt alive !

My 2016 birthday: great friends in a lake whole day activities for all public (kind of childrem games for adults), from air castles (trampoline), huge water slides, kayak, paddeling, archery, to climbing (one less fear) and scooter.

I will never forget the first time I swam in the sea in the night !

Getting to know my favourite ska band in Calgary. Thanks to the merchandiser I got to talk to them and have some fun after their concert.

Visiting Quebec with my family.

What I Can Share with Hosts

The joy of living, the greatness of little details (home has lots of them), the art of sharing: home, opinions, food, languages, ideas...
I am always opened to meet new people. I guess the situation of being "a foreingner" in a "foreign country" has made us a sharable ideology of living.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, England, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Mexico

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