I'm Simon, a 21 years old student in International Marketing from France volunteering in an NGO in Lebanon for 1 year. I love to meet people with different cultures than mine, I enjoy to discover their daily life, what they think about there country, about the world in general, the food they eat, the music they listen to, the language they speak... I love to discover foreign cultures in depth!
So far, I've travelled to about 50 countries and lived in France (where I spent most of my life) and Australia, Ivory Coast, Netherlands and Lebanon (for work or study purposes).

My Insta: @simonwargny

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Discovering cities/countries through the locals and their knowledge/experiences is always the best.
To learn from others and have a mutual exchange of life or travel experiences with each other.

Interests

• humanitarian relief
• human rights
• marathon
• traveling
• volunteer work
• hip-hop music
• rugby
• volunteering
• working visa
• english
• living abroad
• australia
• india
• canada
• middle east
• ngo
• erasmus
• erasmus+
• arabic food
• arabic culture
• development economics

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen to different style of music but my favorite are Hip-Hop/Rap music, Electro and East-African music. I enjoy geopolitics, History, Economy and international affairs a lot as well as languages and I have a major interest for topics such as Ngo work, humanitarian action and development studies in general.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

For 1 year in 2003/2004, I did a road trip in a camping-car with my family from Paris (France) to Pondicherry (Southeast India) round-trip by land for more than 20 000 km across western and eastern Europe, Turkey, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, India and Nepal.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Pakistan, Paraguay, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Côte d'Ivoire, France, Lebanon, Netherlands