CURRENT MISSION

Live simply, love people, do good...

ABOUT ME

Hi! I'm 32. I'm french which means I love to eat, I love snails, cheeses and baguette... lol

I've been on CS for 10 years now and had ONLY good experiences!!!! I hosted almost 70 people so far and surfed around 20 different couches. I also met plenty of people through CS meetings.

PHILOSOPHY

Two important values for me: help and share....

I think everybody brings me something even if we don't have a good relationship... Everybody from CS can bring me something and I hope I will give them something back...

Life is all about sharing, giving away, meeting people and experience life....

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love the Couch Surfing project. I love the idea that I can meet friends anywhere I go. It's a really good way to promote fraternity among people in the world. And the best way to really discover a country and a culture.

I host a lot of people at home and I show my city around. I organise meetings for the CS group "Dijon".

My experiences:

October 2007: Shanti Party...the first meeting. Narguilé and tea!!!!

17 November 2007:CS Meeting Dijon: "Mustard Party" in my flat

February 2008: "Banana and chocolate Party"

March 2008: Sun Festival Dijon

May 2008: Pique nique au Lac Kir

17.05.08:"Nuit des Musées" and "the unexpected Wilson Place Party" lol

19.05.08: CS Meeting Dijon: "Chocolate and sweet party" in my flat

21.05.08: "End the wine bottles party!!!!" in my flat.

22.05.08: "Jazz dans la ville": Jazz festival in the middle of Dijon: VERY GOOD!!!!!

12.06.08: "Barbecue chez Betty" Very good party.... Ending with a good discussion about dreams!!!!!

June 2008: "Summer Camp for big children" with the CS group Dijon

09/08/2008: Benenwerk in Brugge.

I organised some meetings in Hobart, Tasmania once a week... At Rektango, in a pub...

Back in the Mustard City of Dijon, I'm very involved in the CS community in Dijon. We organise a meeting once a week at Café Les Trois Coups every wednesday night from 8.30pm. Lot of chance to find me there....

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had now heaps of experiences of couch surfing and each time, it was a very good experience. For example, I learned few things about english sign language like A,B,C....Thanks to these meetings, I discovered a lot of things about other cultures.

CS is a way to have a better point of view of the other population and countries.... It's a way to travel all around the world in your own flat.

Hosted by:
Martine in Brugge ( August 2008)
Caroline and Ludovic in Lille (August 2008)

Australia/New Zealand 2009-2010:
Nick in Sydney (september 2009)
Aurélien in Sydney (september 2009)
Nick and Kim in Brisbane (march 2010)
Tim Oliver in Launceston (july 2010)
Damien Lemerle in Melbourne (september 2010)
Greta and Kirsten, Auckland, NZ (September 2010)
Jeffery and Vicky Suckling, Rotorua (NZ, September 2010)
Terence Albert, Taupo NZ, September 2010
Imogen Harris and her amazing flatmates, Wellington NZ, October 2010
Mihai Tataru and his roomies, Christchurch, NZ, October 2010
Stephen Hanna in Queenstown, NZ, October 2010
Benny Ron in Dunedin, NZ, October 2010
Ian Carman in Christchurch, NZ, October 2010
Sarah Mikula in Perth, Australia, November 2010

Alix René, La Rochelle, France, November 2011
Cecile Gupta, Lorient, France, July 2012
Sunshine Familly aka Romain, Stephanie, Maéna and Yannaelle, March 2013
Louise Ducamp, Brussels, Belgium,August 2014
Fransisca Silva alias Panchi, Barcelona, August 2015

India/China 2016:
Manish Mahabir, Delhi, February 2016/March 2016/May 2016
Pushpendra Singh, Jaipur, February 2016
Pepsi, Jaisalmer, February 2016
Gajendra Singh, Jodhpur, February 2016
Kali Shetty, Hampi, march 2016
Bhaskaran Pillay, Hubli, march 2016
Rinku Jamna Vilas, Bikaner, march 2016
Ashurtorg Garg, Rishikesh, april 2016
Ketan Khope and his roomate, Mumbai, April 2016
Preet Hundal and her children, Amritsar, May 2016
Zhenxia Deng, Beijing, June 2016

Austria 2017:
Ramona, Wien, July 2017
Helmuth, Wolkerdorf in Viertelwein, July 2017

I hosted them:
Courtney and Courtenay (Cubby) from Canada (June 2007)
Jill Jones from USA (July 2007)
Piero Nastri from Italy (October 2007)
Anthony Parisi and Cecily from USA (November 2007)
Hiroki Nakamori from Japan (November 2007)
James Bowskill from New Zealand (February 2008)
Claire Haaf and Andrea from Canada (February 2008)
Sophie Yanow and Greta USA(June 2008)
Jacqui Mc Cann, from Melbourne, Australia (May 2011)
Julez Edwards (Belgium) and Ebony Prins (Australia) July 2011
Cesar Buritica (Colombia) and Laetitia (France) July 2011
Lorenzo Nicolussi, Bologna, Italy, July 2011
Laura Driscoll, San Francisco, USA, July 2011
Martial Domergue (France) February 2012
Josh Adlin, Seattle, USA (June 2012)
Lieke Rietrae and Michelle, Utrecht, Netherlands (July 2012)
Valerie Janssen and David, Nijmegen, Netherlands (July 2012)
Selina (Canada) and Dawn (USA) living in Belgium...well..I should say living all around the world! (July 2012)
Marco Tibaldeschi and Elisa, Alessandria, Italy, July 2012
Majka Kudlejova and Matus Turicik, Zilina, Slovakia, September 2012
Alise Zarina and Toms, Riga, Latvia September 2012
Zuzana Faltusova and Gianluca, Prag, Czech Republic, October 2012
Tracy Cheng and her boyfriend, Courtrai, Belgium, october 2012
Benoit Roullet-Renoleau and his friend, Angoulème, France, november 2012
Caleb Daniel House, Chico, California, USA, March 2013
Kassia and Stefanos, Greece, living in Luxembourg, March 2013
Alejandra Rodriguez, Medellin, Colombia, April 2013
Ian Warner-O'Connor and Katherine, New haven, USA, April 2013
Joël Dumais, Québec, Canada, Avril 2013
Paul Vachon, Montréal, Canada, May 2013
Alex Ulanow and Fabian, Munich, Germany, June 2013
Cédric Berthezene, Lyon, France, June 2013
Maddie Webb and Carlo Formosa, Sydney, Australia, an awesome italian-australian couple, june 2013
Kalok Lai, Washington, USA, June 2013
Toma Agami and France, Brussels, Belgium, June 2013
Tia Corda, England, July 2013
Daniel Vileda, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2013
Jason Philips, Cardiff, Wales, August/september 2013
Christian Suzuki, San Franscisco, USA, october 2013
Phoebe Spencer, Perth, Australia, november 2013
Abdiel Ramirez Torres, Mexico City, Mexico, november 2013
Connie Calice and Thom, Illinois, USA, November 2013
Gaël Robillard, Bordeaux, France, November 2013
Daniel und Fabian, Berlin, Germany, November 2013
Daniel Kassman, Colorado, USA, December 2013
Nina Küglor, Austria, January 2014
Mario Juliao Silva Junior, Recife, Brazil, March 2014
Pascal Stieler, Berlin, Germany, March 2014
Angelika Rutkowska, Lodz, Poland, June 2014
Stéphanie Huet, Rouen, France (June 2014)
Sandrine Schonenberger, Lille, France (June 2014)
Vivien and Tabea Hartmann, Hamm, Germany (june 2014)
Ruslana Bekmukhambetova, Sochi, Russia (july 2014)
Amy Mac, Cape Breton, Canada, (July 2014)
Almeda and Anna (Lituania/Hungary) january 2015
Anna and Nina, Berlin, Germany
March 2015
Alex Moffat, Montréal, Québec, Canada, September 2015
Marine Terreran, Paris, France, October 2015
Hana and Iva, Czech Republic, october 2015
Taron Ware, Virginia, USA, December 2015
Veronika and Pauline, Slovakia and France, December 2015

Interests

Discovering the world,looking around me, observing, be quiet in front of something which is wonderful, reading, learning a lot of things, meeting a lot of people and learning from them....

Badminton, swimming, have fun with my friends, philosophy, travelling....

My job is one of my interests. I'm not a "work addict" but I have the chance to love my job of social worker... Each day is so completely different and you live a lot of emotions and intense moments.

• culture
• festivals
• cooking
• chocolate
• wine
• bbq
• walking
• partying
• pub crawls
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• jazz
• camping
• surfing
• swimming
• badminton
• languages
• philosophy
• sign language
• social work
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

"Revolutionary Road", "Chocolat", Deception Point by Dan Brown. Several books by Marc Levy. I love his "Les enfants de la liberte" which is the story of his own father during the WW2.

I read "City of Joy" by Dominique Lapierre, few days after leaving Kolkatta, the city where the story takes place... This book is so beautiful but hard... That's what I saw in Kolkatta when I worked for the missionaries of charity... Hopefully, the situation in India has changed a few... But I can imagine what is in the book was and is again completely real... Probably my second favourite book...

I read the book "Moi, Bhoudda" by Jose Freches. It's a biography of Bhudda... Very interesting and spiritual! Few months before going to Nepal...

My favourite book: "L'étranger " de Camus. I discovered this book at home and I took it for my journey from France to Prag... I GUZZLED this book (if I can say it like that)!!!! It was very well written and it's definitely my favourite book...until the next "favourite book" lol. "Chocolat" might become my next favourite one... No, don't think so even if it's close!!!

I love the book of Anna Gavalda too: "Ensemble et c'est tout". "Mille Soleils Splendides" by Khaled Hosseini.

And I'm an unconditional of Christian Jacq. He wrote some books which take place in Old Egypt with the mythology and the pharaohs. I've read "Ramses" (my favourites by this author), "La Pierre de Lumiere", "La reine Liberte" ( had read approximatively 20 books by him)....

I like Max Gallo and his books "Napoleon" and " La croix de l'occident". This last book takes place during the religion war in Europe in the 16th century.

"Le Cri de la Mouette" is the autobiography of Emmanuelle Laborit, who is a French deaf comedian. She received a Molière ( best award for theater in France). About deafness: "Seeing voices" by Oliver Sacks

- "Freedom Writers diary" a true life story about teenagers in LA who wanted to escape from the violence of their neighbourhood. That's why they wanted to go to university...and they succeeded!!!! There is a film based on this book with Hilary Swank (good film too).

My favourite theatre plays: "Antigone" by Jean Anouilh and "Richard III" Shakespeare.... I've never seen them but I've read them. I actually saw a special version of "Richard III" by a South American company and it was so great!!! A good memory and very fun!!! Can you imagine "Richard III" can be so funny huh???
And I saw Antigone but it was the version of Bertold Brecht. (It takes place during the WW2.) Very good but I prefer the play by Anouilh.

My favourite(s) film(s): "Black Cat, white cat" by Emir Kusturica, "Slumdog Millionaire" (seen few weeks after my return from India..) "Volver" by Almodovar, a very good spanish film with Penelope Cruz, "American Beauty" with Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning, "Les Invasions Barbares", "La reine Margot". I love "Revolutionary Road" (movie and book),

Music: I love Stromaé, the song "Uptown Funk" by Bruno Mars. I love french basics such Jean-Jacques Goldman, Indochine. I love rock music, tribal music.. Actually I'm very openminded about music...

I love dancing. Gives me a lot of energy!!!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking and meeting people in slums in Kolkatta...

Took a shower with an elephant...

Waking up on Joanna Beach, facing the ocean after an "under the stars night"... (Great Ocean Road, Australia)

Joining a philosophic way of life...

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm now involved in a philosophy school. We are sharing life and experience, building a better world following the philosophic way of life.

I'm a philosopher learning about himself, about others and the world, learning how everything is interdependant in life. We are all interdependant and we are all brothers and sisters.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Do you like cooking? Me too... Do you like french language? I can help you... Personally I would like to learn other languages....I love to discover other cultures.

I can also help you learning english. Sharing a good meal, sharing about travels and life experience. Sharing friendliness and togetherness in daily life...

Sharing a good laugh, sharing fun times, crazy times, silent times.... Sharing life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Senegal, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France

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