Hi ! Hello ! Kia ora ! Bonjour ! Demat ! ¡ Buenos días ! ¡ Bon dia ¡ 😊

My name is Solenn and I just come back to New Zeland joining my cousin Maël who's doing a WHV here.
I travelled and worked in NZ last year during a year (April 23-24) with a WHV as well. I'm very happy to come back to the wonderful country as NZ 🌿🥝 !

We didn't make a precisely plan of our travel in the country. I want to show some part of NZ to Maël that I loved.

We would like to travel in NZ by meeting local people sharing their culture, good tips, traditional recipes, music, ...

Solenn :
I'm using Couchsurfing since I'm traveling in foreign countries. I lived and travel in Spain, Canada, Feench Polynesia and New Zealand, few months, few years ago which make me develop my interest to visit somes cities (I want to see the world, big classic dream ^^).

I want to discover the countries, the differents cultures, people who lived there, improve in many things, share, remake the wolrd, etc...🌈🌍🌊🏕

I'm an architect and particularly interested in ecological and biosourced construction. I am very curious to discover the local ways of building, types of architecture, design, ... in the different countries I travel. So even if you don't know anything about it, you will still teach me a lot without realizing it :)!

I will be happy to meet you and share with you my Breton culture and its famous delicious pancakes ! :)

See you ! 😉

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To me, Couchsurfing is the better way to meet local people, learn about culture, things to know or visit around a city ...
My experiences with CS prove me that everywhere there's people who want open-minded, curious who want to share experiences, their life, city and their home ;)

I don't find the words to really express myself about the amazing experiencies that CS offer me but you're surely understand what I wanted to say 😅

I'm also on HelpX platform, so I'm oppen to help you in gardening, farming, orchard, cleaning, painting, construction, and more original tasks :)

Interests

Reaally good question but reaaaaallly hard answer, so I will let you a list because I can developp each items during looonng lines :

Photography, Urbex, Cinema, Festival of music, Music, Nature, Hikes, Plants, Sewing, To some fun and improbable experiences (please don't have bad ideas), Dance (lindy hop /swing), Architecture, Scout, Sport ... and travel of course

• architecture
• photography
• music festivals
• dancing
• traveling
• ecology
• nature
• feminism
• lindy hop
• discovering new cultures
• ecobuilding
• drinking beer
• festivals and concerts

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS 📚
All the books I read in that moment spoke about traveling :
▪ 🌍🧳Travel : J.Kerouac, S.Tesson, M.Horn, S.Marquis, L.Hubler , H.Hamon, Krakauer, ..
▪ 💪🏾♀️ Feminists : Plã, Chollet, Strömquist, ..

MUSIC 🎶
I'm n't complicated with music. I love listen to a lot of diffent music (reggae, rock, electro, pop, metal, country, celtic, music of rhe world, jazz). I appreciate to learn new song, new type of music.
I'm a Lindy Hop dancer, so all jazz music of course !
I also tried few times learn guitar but i'm very lazy so i'm not progressing quickly ^^. If you know simple song I will very enjoy to learn them.

MOVIES 🎥
▪ Wild
▪︎ Into the wild
▪ Limitless
▪ Django unchained
▪ Demain (all the people must watch this documentary)
▪ Persepolis
▪ Mommy
▪ Paris est à nous
▪ Deux moi
▪ Dans les forêts de Sibérie
▪ Miyazaki movies / Gibli ....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hichhiking around the north of Québec in 2018 🌿🌞😉👍

Doing a Working Holiday Visa in New Zealand during a year and want to do it again for sur ! 🤞🏻🚐

Teach, Learn, Share

Young ecological architect 📐🏠, I'm trying to learn photography, guitar, planting-gardening/ work with plants and soil and obviosly improve english in NZ !

I'll love learn how to surf and sail :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook THE really trust Crepes (pancakes) - Britany recepies with is delicious salt butter caramel. That's for food but i can also propose you to share some stories of my travels, experiences, ...
Learn you some words in French if you want to learn/improve it !

I promise that you wont regret it 😉 !

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Canada, Croatia, England, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Guadeloupe, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, United States, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, French Polynesia, New Zealand, Spain