Hey !!! I’m Sophie. I’m French ! In 2018, I get married and left France to live in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, with my husband ! WE get a baby here, she's 1 years old and perfectly fluent spanish/French jajaja
After the pandemia & all the shit* that happened, we are finally back in the game of Csurfing & really happy to be able to host again !- & hopefully surf with our baby one day !

We live in a nice casita where You will feel very comfy. You are welcome to stay with Us :
MI CASA ES SU CASA !

CURRENT MISSION : LOVE, ENJOY, DISCOVER, LEARN, EAT, LAUGHT and SHARE ! Live, Learn, Love, teach, share what I've learnt :) Discover half of the world : 100 countries :) I VISITED 40 COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD :D To be continued !... PLEASE click here to see my nicer profile :D You'll have all the informations below then + maps & everyhting's colored :D !) https://www.couchsurfing.com/users/1000199143/profile/legacy
ABOUT ME I'm a young and a bit crazy woman, teacher BTW, who LOVES to travel & share moments with many people ! I like to discover new things, to adapt myself to a new situation which will teach me A lot about myself ! For now, I'm sharing my passion for travelling with my husband Jonathan, & we are living together :D ________________________________________________________________________________________ "L'important est que chacun trouve son propre équilibre et sa propre source de bonheur, car le véritable amour c'est pouvoir étreindre un être libre. Préservez-vos rêves et vivez vos émotions jusqu'au bout, l'Amour se trouve sur la route de l'éveil." "The important thing is that everyone finds their own balance and its own source of happiness, because true love is to hug someone whi is free. Preserve your dreams and live your emotions until the end, love is on the road to enlightenment" Romantic, CRAZY, wise, mad, intense, I want to live, I want to love. And I trust in the beauty & spontaneity of L-I-F-E ! Mission of life : discovering the world and people, learn new langages and ENJOY LIFE ! I'm a very dynamic, honest and passionate woman. I like speaking with people, sharing experiences, discovering others cultures, meeting new people, improving languages. I'm very curious about all that ! Special teacher, working with teenagers who don't like school anymore, I try to do my best with them. That's my job, a part of my life, and I love it. So hard, but so rich :) I LOVE travelling and I love CS ! I want and I need to meet new people from everywhere in the world ! PHILOSOPHY "On peut voyager non pour se fuir, chose impossible, mais pour se trouver" J. Grenier (We can travel not to escape, impossible, but to find ourselves) " Le monde est un livre et les gens qui ne voyagent pas n'en lisent qu'une page". Saint Augustin The World is a book, and people who don't travel just read one page of it. "Le voyage, comme l'amour, représente une tentative pour transformer un rêve en réalité." (Alain de Botton) Journey, as love, represents an attempt to make your dream come true. "Voyager, c'est demander d'un coup à la distance ce que le temps ne pourrait nous donner que peu à peu." (Paul Morand) To travel is to ask the distance something that the time could just give you slowly. "On ne fait pas un voyage. Le voyage nous fait et nous défait, il nous invente". We don't make a trip. The trip is making and defeating ourselves , it invents us. "N'ayez jamais peur de la vie, n'ayez jamais peur de l'aventure, faites confiance au hasard, à la chance, à la destinée. Partez, allez conquérir d'autres espaces, d'autres espérances. Le reste vous sera donné de surcroît" Never be afraid of life, never be afraid of adventure, trust to chance, luck, and to your destiny. Go, go to conquer other areas, other expectations. The rest will be given to you moreover. Only one travel can make you grew up so quickly and learn so much about people and relationship, and yourself. That's why I LOVE discovering the world !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To share, help, meet, eat, laught, enjoy !!!!

I hosted tons of people at home and It was GREAT all the time ! Csurfing is the best thing ever.
I SURFED IN 26 DIFFERENTS COUNTRIES ! SURFED 55 TIMES !

Here they are : Alex (NYC, USA) : 2 nights / April (Rochester, USA) : 6 nights / Bill (Hiroshima, Japan) : 1 night / Hayato (Tokyo, Japan) : 2 nights / Ashutosh (Delhi, India) : 4 nights / Jaka (Ljubljana, Slovenia) : 2 nights/ Tadjana (& Goran) (Zagreb, Croatia) : 3 nights / Jonathan (Ibiza, Spain) : : 1 night / Miguel (Barcelona, Spain) : 5 nights / Odded (Jérusalem, Israël) : 2 nights / Ilan (Tel Aviv, Israël) : 1 night / Tanya (Petah Tikvah, Israël) : 3 nights / Sina & Farhan (Oslo, Norway) : 3 nights Ozzan (Istanbul, Turkey) : 2 nights / Cenjiz (istanbul, Turkey) : 2 nights Donovan-Mins (Singapore, Singapore) : 2 nights / Yy (Ayer itam, (penang island, Malaisia) : 2 nights / Bartholomé : (Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA) : 3 nights Alfredo y Silvia : (Posadas, ARGENTINA) : 2 nights / Matheus : (Foz do Iguaçu, BRAZIL) : 1 night / Fernando : (Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA) : 1 night Koutis (Athens, Greece) : 4 nights / Adam (Miami, FL, USA) : 3 nights Thomas (Miami, FL, USA) : 4 nights / Oscar (Quebec city, QUEBEC- (Canada) : 2 nights / David (NYC, USA) : 2 nights / Sophia (HCMC, Viet Nam) : 3 nights / Jubin (HCMC, Viet Nam) : 1 night / Luis (Tarragona, Spain) : 2 nights / YASSINE’s MOTHER RAJAÂ (Rabat, MAROCCO) : 6 nights / Pedro (Liboa, PORTUGAL) : 3 nights / Felipe y Anna (Bogota, COLOMBIA) : 4 nights / Kevin (Medellin, COLOMBIA) : 2 nights; Carlos (Cartagena de las Indias, COLOMBIA) : 1 night / Dimitri (les Mées, FRANCE) : 1 night / Serkhan (Istanbul, TURKEY) : 1 night / Nas (UlanBator, MONGOLIA) : 2 nights / Jean-Philippe (Manosque, FRANCE) : 1 night / Mickaël y Laura (Madrid, SPAIN) : 3 nights / Abhey y Yamini (Chennai, INDIA) : 2 nights / Akhil (Pondichery, INDIA) : 2 nights / Nara (Trivandrum, INDIA) : 2 nights/ Victor (Barcelona, SPAIN) : 4 nights / June : 1 night (Hanoï, VIETNAM) / Sam : 1 night (Kandy, SRILANKA); Ruwani : 1 night (Mirissa, SRILANKA), Arthur : 3 nights (Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS), Mariana y Gaby : 3 nights (Cochabamba, BOLIVIA); Soki : 3 nights (La Paz, BOLIVIA)/ Rajeev : 1 night (Auckland, NEW ZEALAND), Laura CS BACK (Pina Harbor, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND): 1 night / Catherine (Whangarei, New Zealand) : 1 night/ CAMERON’s PARENTS Sue & Pete Cs back (Kerikeri, NEW ZEALAND) : 6 nights / Judy : 2 nights (Tauranga, NEW ZEALAND)/ Aline : 4 nights (Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico)/ Mauricio : 3 nights (Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico)

Interests

DISCOVERING THE WORLD AND ENJOYING EACH MINUTE OF LIFE ! Travel, travel, and travel again... I visited many countries in Europe... I did an AMASING ROAD TRIP IN THE USA from Texas to California. Crazy trip ! I Worked 4 times as a volonteer 2 weeks in : India, Viet Nam, Mongolia and again VietNam ! I discovered those AMASING countries; made friends for LIFE :) Travelling, speaking different langages, reading, cinema, electro and house music, festival of music, eating and discovering new and very good food, and all these things all around the world ! Good wine and tapas, cooking French dishes ! Festival like Toques et Clochers, la feria de Nîmes (of course !), parties into the streets when you can danse, drink, enjoy :D Actually all the things which are making a better Life :) I discovered how to use my camera in Japan, thanks to Hayato ! :D So I LOVE using my camera and take pictures of the landscape, and mostly the persons.. A true moment you just catch at the instant. magic !... I love to learn from the others...

• books
• beauty
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• partying
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• magic
• music
• swimming
• teaching
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie : Into the wild, il padrino, Joker recently, Captain Fantastic , GOT and netflix series haha
Books : Eat, pray and love d'Elizabeth Gilbert. Everything about Chinese medecine, Energy, the power of our brain; emotions on our body etc... and the law of attraction !
Music : electro music, Banquet, Daft Punk, the XX, metronomy, Gesaffelstein, Birdy Nam Nam, Regina Spektor, Oasis, Red Hot Chili Pepper, Asaf Avidan, Avici, David Kalk., Ray Charles, Eddie Vedder, Justice, ..and whatever that can make me dance !

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well, to get married to my soulmate is the most wonderful thing I've done, experienced, shared, felt, loved AND LIVED in my entire life. I wish that to everybody ! But in my trip.... - Flotting in the dead sea in Israël :) - Travel on Business class Twice in my life (about 2000/5000 € the sit !!!) just paid 400 € :p - To see the Akropolis in Athens, by night, under the snow (it just happens every 5-6 years for 1 day !!!) - Participate to workcamps as a volonteer in India, VietNam, Mongolia, VietNam again, with amazing people - Face to face with a monkey in Shimla (India) So Scary ! - Ride a camel into the Tunisian desert :) - to see the statue of Lenin in DC. This was fantastic ! - OMG to swim in the pool of marina Bay, on the roof top at 57th floor, with an amazing view on Singapor Bay ! One of the best pool EVER ! - Taking part to a real Shabbat in Israël ... Weird, interresting. Really Amasing. - Drink an egg in Japan ! - Ride a bike by night through DELHI ! - To drive on right side in Malaysia/New Zealand ! - To go to a Jungle party in Thaïland.... in the deepest forest ! - Take part to a Pool Party in Miami Beach, On Ocean Drive.... in a millionair's house ! - Come into AYASOFYA in Istanbul... where my name comes from :D - To SEE LENIN in Moscow (in real) in his mausoleum. Incredible. - Take the bus with a baby goat in Himashal Pradesh ! - 130 km/h roller coaster in Las Vegas ! - Go to the West Bank and cross a Checkpoint between Israël and Bethlehem - Hosted 15 persons at the same time in a 25m² appartment ! (feria..) - Full Moon Party 2014 Thaïland, until 9 am in the morning. Unforgettable ! - Participate to the Carnaval of Binches in Belgium ... and drink 13 L of beer in 1 day :| - National Midjet park ... party hard in Croatia (Pag Island and Novalja beach!) - camping in the Everglades in Florida. crazy and unforgettable !!!! - Camping in Yosemite Park (USA) under the sky... freaking cold and great ! - Observe the sunset on the top of an old church, into the Negev désert (Israël) - Ushuaïa after beach in Ibiza (Spain). Great, super, unbelievable party ! - Visit Hiroshima, saw and felt where the Bomb-A exploded :/ - Almost sure I saw Nessy in Scotland, in the Loch (yeahhhh) with my dad, one of my-his- OUR dream ! - Swin in Maya Bay, Thaïland, like in the movie "The Beach" Wahouuu with my love! - See the 2nd and 3rd biggest waterfalls in the world : Iguaçu (Brasil, Argentina) , Niagara falls (Canada) - to see a MoonRise In Mongolia, a night of Full Moon, amazing, very intense moment ! - To swim in the natural Pool in Isles of pines, CALEDONIA, -To see up north New Zealand CAPE RINGA where Tasman Sea and Pacific ocean meet up - to jump as a honeymoon gift with my husband in Taupo clifangher from a 47m hight passerelle !!! UNFORGETTABLE- , to be in a Ball in Auckland and been jumped between the building so quickly, whaouuu amazing sensations !!!

To quit everything, job, friend, family, to follow and live my dream : experience not only a simple travel BUT ta LIFE abroad with my Love 💓

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a special needs teacher. In Bolivia where I live, I take care of all the special need student's process of accompaniment in classroom (adaptation of tools, how to help them to learn better and feel confident etc.). I guide their teacher, help them out to organize the school path. This is so intense and interesting, I learn eveyday !
I've learnt a lot during my trip, so I like to share it and talk about that. But I'm very curious of the experience the others had, and I want to learn from them too ! & definitly, I want to speak Italian and Spanish, to improve these both Languages I like so much ! So... please, teach me ! ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

A good French dinner cooked by my super baker husband !!!

Many memories with all my surfers...
I HOSTED 153 PERSONS FROM 41 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES !

Here is the list of all of them !
Nîmes : Hélène: 1 Night (Arles, France) Allessandro : 2 Night (Roma, Italy) Étienne : 2 nights (Canada) Alex: 1 Night (Romania) Emilio y Miguel 1 night (Spain) Grâce : 1 night (USA) Odded : 2 nigth (Israël) -- Féria !!! Miguel y Emilio (otra vez !) 2 nigths -- Feria !!! Victor y Nikki : 1 night (Romania) Jingying : 1 night (Guangzhou, China) Marion y Carlos : 1 night (Mexico- Cancun) *** May : 1 night (Shangaï, China) *** Carolyn : 1 night (Germany) Guaram : 1 night (Busan, South Corea) Sara & Carima : 1 night (Belgium) *** Aaron y Sabrina : 2 nights (USA) Libor y Hedvika : 1 night (Czech Republic) Guillaume y Guillaume : 1 night (Bordeaux, Fr) Hannah : 3 nights (USA) *** Gladys : 2 nights (Singapour) Gary y Saul : 2 nights (Australia) Jakub : 1 night (England but actually Poland !)
Candice : 1 night (France) David : 2 nights (Mexico) Alex : 1 night (France) Xian : 2 nights (New Zealand, but lives in Malaisia !) Tarik : 1 night (France, living in Swizerland) Aajay : 2 nights (India) Rafal : 1 night (Poland) Tuuli and Felix : 1 night (Finland) Augusto : 1 night (Argentina) Labrini : 2 nights (Greece) Shailen : 2 nights (Mauritius, living in Munchën, Germany) *** Pedro : 1 night (Porto, Portugal) Yvan : 1 night (Mendoza, Argentina) Anna & Julian : 1 night (France & Argentina, Buenos Aires) *** Olivia : 2 nights (Hong Kong, China) Matija : 2 nights (Zagreb, Croatia) Barry : 1 night (Gwalchmai, Wales) Matija : 2 nights again (Zagreb, Croatia) Ciprian : 1 night (Bucarest, Roumania) Demmy : 2 nights (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Rosie y Kyl : 2 nights (Arizona, USA) Jaka y Rok : 2 nights (Ljubjana, Slovenia) Eli : 1 night (Paris, France) Cristina : 1 night (Oviedo, Espana) Gin : 1 night (Seoul, South Korea) Brett : 1 night (Perth, AUSTRALIA) Mickaël : 2 nights (Melbourne, AUSTRALIA) Manel : 2 nights (Taragona, España) Lola y Lauriane : 1 Night (Paris, France) Rocka y Gintare (Vilnius, Lituania) : 1 night Manuel (Barcelona) y Cameron : 1 night (New Zealand, but living in Barcelona) Rui : 4 nights (Portugal, but living in Amsterdam, Netherlands) Markus : 3 nights (Landshut, Germany) Viktor y Adrian : 3 nights (Barcelona, Spain) Louise y Laurie : 2 nights (Paris, France) Alvaro : 2 nights (Madrid, Spain) ***Julje : 2 nights (Germany) Andrea : 2 nights (Taïwan)
Thomas : 1 night (Montpellier, France) Maria : 2 nights (Torino, Italia)
Pierre : 1 Night (Montpellier, France) Nico - James : 1 night (Nîmes, France) + Canada Oli : 1 night (Zagreb, Croatia) Paul : 2 nights (Birmingham, USA) Adrian : 2 nights (Canary Islands, Spain) Eric : 1 night (Quebec, Canada- but living in Nîmes !) Jaden - Reynald : 1 night (Canada- France) + Sebastien : 2 nights (Annecy, France) Paolo : 1 night (Termoli, Italy) Maureen : 1 night (Taïwan) *** Milan : 1 night (Belgrade, Serbie)Ted : 1 night (Taïwan/Vienna/Canda !!!) Sean : 1 night (Hong-Kong, but living in UK !) ***Maura : 1 night (USA, but living in Carcassone) Taylor : 1 night (Colombus, USA but living in St Malo, France) Bryan : 2 nights (Cork, Ireland but living in Girona, Spain)Laura : 1 night (Auckland, New Zealand but living in Lyon, France) Yassine : 2 nights (Rabat, Morroco) *** Andrii + his friend : 1 night (Lviv, Ukraine)Lydie : 1 night (Arles, France) Hugues : 2 nights (Juvignac, France) Dominika : 2 nights (Warsaw, Poland) *** Sasha : 1 night (Odessa, Ukraine) Chris : 1 night (Berlin, Germany) Mary : 2 nights (Melbourne, Australia) Patrick : 1 night (Gäufelden, Germany) William : 2 nights (Pittsburgh, USA but living in Caen, France)Yeli : 1 night (Seoul, South Korea) ***
Vladimir : 2 nights (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) *** Lewis : 1 night (Wales, but living in an island in GB !) Tobias : 1 night (Hambourg, Germany) Zheqiang : 2 nights (Shanghaï, China but living in Coventry, UK !)*** Trevor : few nights (Seattle, USA) Isabella & Cedric (Colombia & France) : 1 night) Mina & Uzoma : (Iran & Nigeria, but living in Leiden, Netherlands) : 1 night ; Felipe : 2nights (Brazil) Trevor : 1 night (Augusta, USA) Wui : 1night (Chiu Tsung Li, Taïwan) Urska & Georges : 1 night (Bled, Slovenia) ; Alex : 1 night (Brighton, England, United Kingdom) ; Nicolas : 1 night (Buenos Aires- Argentinaaa/London !); Sheer & Nishan : 2nights (India- But London); Amaury : 1 night (Paris, france) ; Laura y Mickael : 1 night (Madrid Spain y Venezuela) ; Giuseppe : 1 night (Lecce, Italy); Vicente : 1 night (Alicante, Spain), Pablo : 1 night (Santiago de Chile, Chile); Alexia y Vetel : 1 night (Brasil, y Chile); Philip y Svenja : 1 night (Freiburg, Germany); Sara y André : 1 night (Lisbon, Portugal but moving to Berlin ! Germany); Martin : 1 night (Vienna, Austria); Jemma : 1 night (Living in London, From Brighton, England); Valentin :1 night (Troyes, France); Anne-Laure : 1 night (Paris, France); Janine and Alvaro : 1 night (Malaga, Spain); Antjuan : 1night (NYC, USA); Donovan : 1 night (Singapour); Emma, : 1 night (York,England) ; Sergio (Andalucia, SPAIN) : 1 night; Dany and Christian : 1 night (Palma de Mallorqua, Spain/Chile)
BOLIVIA :
Bita and Mohamad : 2 nights (Teheran, IRAN)
Aline : 1night (Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico)
Anthony : 3 nights (Marseille, FRANCE)
Ted : 2 nights (Cap vert but soon in Rio !!!)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Réunion, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, France

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