CURRENT MISSION

teaching and learning

ABOUT ME

ALEX(according to my sister):
curious, observative, a bit cautious and a bit unwary sometimes, intellectual, helpful, patient(fortunely!I couldn't teach children and teenagers...)and I like laughing and joking
etc.
One can't sum up a human being...

CARO:(according to my sister): caring, helpful, determined, honnest, very observative and sometimes paranoiac (I'm jocking, hum...).

PHILOSOPHY

ALEX:
-"hurry to live slowly..." (oxymoron untranslatable in english I think)
-"give of your best every day"
-"Know thyself" (counsel carved on the architrave of the Temple at Delphes)

- and...fall about laughing about fun things

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

- travelling in the world (of course)
- meeting other ways and "philosophical life"
- sharing good days/moments with our future
couchsurfers
- being hospitable
- and teaching french!

N.B: ALTHOUGH WE wrote "English: beginner", I have(Alex) learned english for 9 years (the result is incredible and disastrous for oral...Why?), so communication is not impossible!WE'LL MAKE SPECIAL EFFORTS!

Interests

CARO: my sister,friends,cinema, animals, read,puzzles

ALEX: my sister (is my daughter, in a way), my friends, my job, fine chocolate, hill walking, dogs, pens and writing of course, olive oil and bread,essential oils, figures of speech (paradox, metaphora and oxymoron: yes,I'm delirious...), self derision...
Since 2008: I'm responsible for a partnership between a high school in Bénin (Africa) and my high school:
for construction of a library in CEG of Pahou in Bénin - nearly finished!
WE NEED DONATIONS

• animals
• dogs
• writing
• chocolate
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• puzzles
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

CARO: music: soul music, Aretha franklin, Otis Reding, Tracy chapman,Ray Charles,country,Phil Collins, Mariah Carey, Tété (french singer), Louise Attaque (french singers), Norah Jones,(Techno),Beatrice Luengo (UPA dance)

ALEX: Benabar,Pagny,Tracy Chapman, Muse, Bruce Springsteen, movie musics,disco, operas,accordion, guinguette, african rhythm, now salsa, Cuban salsa...

Painters: Chagall, Vasarely, Klee, Monet, Klein, Delaunay (painters of "Color") Boticelli, Redon...

Movies:
CARO: Pride and Prejudice,the dangerous liaisons (stephan frears),400 coups (françois trufaut);
Great director: Gus van sant ,Lars von trier...
N.B: I want to begin a script-girl.
ALEX: uneducated!

books:
Caro: Pride and prejudice,Jane Austen, Mauriac,
Anne Perry...

ALEX: Maupassant,Baudelaire,Balzac,Mauriac,Ponge, OULIPO (group), Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Conan Doyle, Steinbeck, Keat, Shakespeare, Coleridge, books about society, books of men and women analyse their society and risk their life for freedom of children, women and men ill treated...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

CARO: One day, I went to the school at 6 AM instead of 8!I love schooool!!!

ALEX: many amazing and not amazing things on the roads... (because not driving license)

Teach, Learn, Share

AlEX: I teach french... but
I want to learn a lot of things... I want to "ingest" "this" world. I'm a teacher but I'll stay a schoolgirl all my life.

CARO:I'm on the stage. I study cinema and entered in an famous audiovisual school.I would like to become a script girl. Cinema is my passion!

Countries I’ve Visited

Benin, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Togo

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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