CURRENT MISSION

Travel a lot and meet new people all over the world

ABOUT ME

I love to travel, meet new people and learn about different cultures. After living in Paris for 18 years, I decided to move to Toronto for 2 years to study at the university there. I then moved to Hong Kong for 1.5 years to study there on exchange. I graduated in finance and economics and I am now in Shanghai studying Chinese full time.

PHILOSOPHY

We live in a truly global world. My goal is to contribute positively to it to make a change once I start working, combining experiences from my trips, the people I have met and entrepreneurship...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surfed and met up with people in Southeast Asia, South America and China. I went to many CS meetings in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Toronto.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only great experiences so far on couchsurfing, was always very welcome and had a great time with amazing people.

Interests

Traveling, meeting new people, learning from other cultures, traveling, traveling again...

• culture
• electronics
• traveling
• backpacking
• economics
• entrepreneurship
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Alternative, house, electro, reggaeton, electrotango, Indian, Asian music... just a bit of everything!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Settled in Toronto right after high school without knowing anyone there
I went to India 4 years ago and that was a life changing experience
I went backpacking in Italy twice with some friends, alone in South East Asia for 7 weeks, alone in South America for 6 weeks, alone in China twice for a week.
Saw the Taj Mahal, Angkor temples, Machu Picchu, the Forbidden city...
Winter in Iceland
New Year's Eve in Istanbul
Rode a motorbike through the Lao countryside
Went trekking in the jungle of the golden triangle, north of Thailand, and slept in a local village with no electricity
Saw the world's deepest canyon in Peru
Visited a silver mine in the Bolivian Andean mountains, seeing how people work there
Got stuck for 26 hours on a bus from the Paraguay border to Rio de Janeiro with electronics smugglers...
Visited a favela in Rio de Janeiro
I am now on exchange in Hong Kong for a year and backpacking all around Asia, so a lot more to come...

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach French and English, share my French culture and my experience as an international student in Canada, Hong Kong and China.
I Also want to practice my Mandarin and Spanish.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, China, France

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