My name is Romain and i'm 35. I have been living in England for six months ant then at Tours in France for a year. Then i came to Paris to study art market and history of art. I found a job i like as an auctioner assistant for 8 years. But now I restart my studies in a Master of conservation of art.

I have been living in for differents roommates, in three differents places during many years. In Nowich (England), Tours and Paris. I loved that way to live. it make me meet a lot of people, enabled me to have goods contacts everywhere and to keep some very goods friends. Most important, i understood how it was necessary to live in a community and learn to share with indulgence and respect. It make me grew up in a way.

I liked my job because it's very exciting to be everyday front of something new. Something than i have never seen before and i don't understand. But i will have to bring together all my knowledges and do everything i can to know what it is. Realize what was the needs in the past help to see what are they now. History of art is for me the most beautiful way to understand what the human race can do to communicate.

I'm a curious personn and what i'm trying to do for my life is to find a discover everyday.

Meetings, sharing experiences and feelings are, for me reals opportunities that we have to learn and create by association.

I would like to learn to keep all the positives things i can cross to give more sens to my life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Last year was a good opportunity to travel for me. Go to meet people from others horizons is my priority. Couchsurfing seems to be the best way to understand and share ours differences and what we have in common. Live with locals peoples are certainly a good way to escape from the tourism office and mostly to see a city or a region by peoples those are live in there.

Now, like à lot of people, i'm stuck in France so i can host and give back what i received.
I like simple and authentics things. BUT i really hope to enjoy and share a traditional meal or something you like to eat! Try new food is one of the things who make me feel most ALIVE!

I could make discover Paris to differents people and be one of the differents views they can have from Paris.

Interests

• dogs
• arts
• design
• running
• movies
• board games
• live music
• fishing
• swimming
• art history
• mountains
• cinema
• adventures
• sea
• extreme sport
• antiques
• campfires
• restaurants
• exploring nature
• chance
• unusual places
• mushroom hunting
• ozora
• new food
• art exhibitions
• ducks
• explore new places
• cooking and eating
• camping,
• angkor wat
• designer
• unusual things
• ceramic art
• sunrises and sunsets
• parachutisme
• surrealist landscape
• catacombs of paris

Music, Movies, and Books

Hard to tell you which songs i like but there some musicians artists i love like John Butler Trio, The Cranberries, Bjork, Blur, Beat Torrent, Buena Vista Social Club, C2C, Caravan Palace, Creedence Clear Water, Daft Punk, Eels, Fat Boy Slim, Feist, Gorillaz, Herbie Hancock, Ibrahim Maalouf, Jack White, Jamiroquai, Keziah Jones, Les Innocents, Mathieu Chedid, Marcus Miller, Massive Attack, Matmatah, Moby, Moriarty, Noir Desir, N'to, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Radio Head, Rare Earth, RJD2, Stevie Wonder, The Doors, The Heavy, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Tok Tok Tok, Wax taylor, Woodkid, Worakls, Yann Tiersen,... and so much more!!! Like psytrance music :)

Some of my best directors could be David Fincher, David Lynch, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Hayao Miyasaki, Quentin Tarantino, Terry Gilliam.

I'm not a big reader but i was really inspired by Les racines du Ciel (Romain Gary), 1984 et La ferme des animaux (Georges Orwell), La horde du contrevent et La zone du dehors (Alain Damasio), Gaston Lagaffe (André Franquin), La vie secrète des arbres (Mark Wohlleeben).

Some artists i love Eilleen Grey (architect and designer), Jean Dunand (copperware), Daniel de Montmollin (ceramist), Ernest Chaplet (ceramist), Zao Wou Ki (painter), Jerome Bosh (painter)

The citations i prefer :

-"L'expérience consiste en intensité non en durée." - "Experience is intensity not duration" (Thomas Hardy)
-"C'est avec la logique que nous prouvons et avec l'intuition que nous trouvons." - "It is with the logic that we find and with intuition that we proove" (Henri Poincaré)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lost for 5 hours in the unofficial catacombs of Paris...
8 parachute jumps
10 days of vipassana courses
Annapurna's circut 5416 m

What I Can Share with Hosts

Like i said just before what i want to share with my host is to enjoy a meal but it could be a lot of little things you like as well, or the way you are living. Maybe a day at work with you if it's possible, why not ! :)

It's important for me to have a possibility to spent a moment, to converse of everything with you also to get your feelings about the place and the life in general.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, England, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

England