CONTACT INFO:

Please do not write a message/request on couchsurfing but write me an e-mail: gabrielle.bernasconi@gmail.com

CURRENT MISSION

After a 5 month stay in Granada (Spain) I am going back to Lugano (Switzerland) to stay a while with my mother and my old friends and find a job. Looking forward to clear my ideas and plans for the future while keeping working on my hobbys (meditation, flamenco guitar and dance, dj'ing, photography).

ABOUT ME

I have always lived in Ticino (Italian part of Switzerland) but as my mother is French she taught me a lot of french culture (books etc.), so I feel quite close to France ( I have the french nationality). As I was younger I have spent all my holidays in Brittany near the sea, I have always dreamed to live by the sea. I also would like to become a sailor somedays =)

I like to travel in a non-touristic way, not making plans, for example walking around randomly in a city, meeting unexpected people. I really like hitch-hiking, cycling, workaway,...

I am anti-capitalist and feminist. I like the idea of "décroissance"(somebody knows the translation?). I like to break circles ideas and stereothypes and learn about new cultures that I try to respect and not to judge. I have a terribly sociological mind, so I wounder, what can I do with it? Add it to my sense of adventure. I guess my dream is to become a journalist and do some kind of reportages around the world in a sociological and artistic way. Dream can come true, isn't it?

I try to find a certain stable state (peace of mind). I am always in movement to improove myself.

Sometimes I am shy when I meet people for the first time, i like to laught and have fun doing crazy things, I don't like too much the simple common sense and circling ideas.

PHILOSOPHY

IF YOU'RE NOT SATISFIED, CHANGE YOUR POINT OF VIEW, AS YOU CAN NOT CHANGE THE WORLD:

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host and other people host me =) that's how it works right? ;)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I did my first coutchsurfing experience around may 2010 with a very nice guy that was travelling from Munich to Barcelona by bike, as last summer I have also travelled from Lausanne to Barcelona by bike I thought it was a very interesting coincidence...

Interests

I just tried to make a list to make some order in my mind:

- Spiritual life: meditation, yoga
- Artistic life: Music (especially flamenco and techno), literature, photography, drawing
- Social life: Sociology, anti-capitalism, ecology, human rights
- Adventure/travel: cycling, sailing, walking, climbing

• culture
• books
• literature
• photography
• dancing
• flamenco
• human rights
• yoga
• meditation
• walking
• traveling
• socializing
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• sailing
• rock climbing
• ecology
• journalism
• sociology
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Pedro Almodovar, Tony Gatlif, non-Hollywood films.
Music: All music that comes from the heart
Books: French literature (Joseph Kessel, Le clézio), Dostoievski,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

East Africa ! Wanna go back to Africa!
Lausanne-Barcelona by bike.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can be there and listen to you

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Malawi, Romania, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Spain, United Kingdom