CIAO!
I love to create bridges between cultures, times, stories, worlds, people. To read and to listen, to learn and to transmit, to travel in space and mind, to cook and to eat (obviously!!), to walk in nature. I love volcanoes and sea.
I'm French with french and sicilian roots. I'm working as an Italian teacher in France and hiking tour leader and guide in Sicily... and when I have some days or some months, I take the path to another place to know.
I want to discover the world's art, nature, words, sounds, music, gastronomies, histories, people, skies, poetry... I'm passionate by mediterranean countries and I would like to discover more about Latino America, Africa, Orient, and also about what I don't think about for now!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Some friends talked me about CS, and, I wanted to try when I was travelling alone in Mexico, to meet new people and to travel in a more effective way.
I also would like to host, but for the moment, I haven't a real home. Ojala, for sure, one day I will have a home to welcom people from all the world!

Interests

• books
• theater
• cooking
• movies
• music
• solo travel
• mountains
• travel
• eating
• travelling
• cinema
• trekking
• markets
• sea
• learning
• colors
• volcanoes

Music, Movies, and Books

Books that changed my life:
L'arte della gioia (The art of joy), Goliarda Sapienza
The idiot, Dostoevsky

Then some books that made parts of me:
Voyage au bout de la nuit (journey in the end of the night), Céline
Novels of Camilleri (il re di girgenti)
Anna karenina, Tolstoï
Palace walk, Naguib Mahfouz,
Jan Eyre, Charlotte Brönte
Crime and punishment, Dostoevsky
Le città invisibili (the invisible cities), Calvino
Kundera, the unbearable lightness of being
La princesse de Clèves (the princess of clèves), Madame de Lafayette
Women who run with wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Les fleurs du mal (he flowers of Evil), Baudelaire
Paroles, Jacques Prévert
Gogol, the governement inspector, dead souls
Pirandello, il fu Mattia Pascal (the late Mattia Pascal) and short stories
Jean Racine, Fedra, Berenice...
The seagull Chekhov

Music made me travel when I couldn't and still makes me travel so I love to discover new songs, new voices!
traditional Music of the world:
mediterranean, arabic, percussions, latin, hang ......
Tarantella
Rebetiko
Chaabi
flamenco
Mariachi de Mexico
Salsa, Cumbia
Old Italian pop
French rap from 90's
Strange and strong voices such as Rosa Balistreri, Chavela Vargas, Oum kalsoum, Nina Simone
Opera

Movies:
New Cinema Paradise, Tornatore
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Kusturika
Almodovar
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios
Italian neorealist and author cinema of 60's: Roma città aperta/ Matrimonio all'Italiana/ I soliti Ignoti/ Mamma Roma/ Senso
Devdas
Va, vis et deviens, Radu Mihaileanu
Poesia sin fin, Jodorowsky

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

May be, beginning to hike and be a guide on volcanoes while I never really hiked first in my life, I wasn't at all a sportive girl, and this sounded so strange for my family.

Teach, Learn, Share

words, songs, passions, Dreams, stories, recips, places, nature, moments, or coffee :)..., this I would love to learn or share. I would like to learn till the unexpected.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Italian/ french lessons or conversation
cooking

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy