CURRENT MISSION

Carpe Diem

ABOUT US

We're an easy going couple (aged 26 and 29) both working. Sophie is a History teacher and works during the week but Benjamin sometimes work during weekends. That is why we can't host at any time.

Last year, we travelled four months in Asia starting in February 2014. Our goal was to understand and experience to the fullest the culture of the different countries we'd visit. That is mainly why we registered on couchsurfing at first. We believed that there's no better way than meeting locals to achieve this goal! Unfortunately, we had a hard time finding reliable Internet connection during our trip and in the end we did not experience couchsurfing as we thought we would.

That is why, now that we are back home, we feel enthusiastic in hosting travellers. We would like to bring different cultures in our small apartment.

Also, we're both open-minded, interested, reliable, neat and discrete persons when necessary. Unfortunately, Ben doesn't have good English yet but he's working on it!

PHILOSOPHY

We studied history to improve our understanding of the present, of the world we're living in. Now that we're done with the paperwork, we want to get to know this reality on the field, through travels, contacts, discussions, ...

Interests

- Travels
- Music
- Art
- Culture
- People
- Videogames
- ...

• arts
• culture
• music
• camping
• scuba diving
• rock climbing
• teaching
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: The classics; Seven, Fight Club, The Usual Suspect, as Sophie's a huge fan of unexpected endings. Also, we enjoy auteur cinema.

Music: Rock, Trip-Hop, Rap, Reggae, Electro, Drum n' bass, ...
To list a few bands we listen to: Pink Floyd, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, Massive Attack, Bonobo, Wax Tailor, Rage against the Machine, The National, Editors, Motorhead, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Netsky, Subfocus, Logistics, and many many more.

Others: We like reading Noam Chomsky and his pairs. Ben also REALLY enjoys videogames.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Teaching French in Ireland.
Sleeping in the jungle in Sumatra.
Climbing the Merapi volcano by night.
Feeding elephants and orangs-outangs.
Meeting Liam Gallagher and his gang.
Attending the Open Water Diver course in Thailand.
Watching New York by night from the Rockefeller rooftop.
Seeing Roger Water's wall falling down at the end of his show.
Reaching the ABC base camp in the Himalaya.
Trekking in the nepalese jungle.
Getting out of New Delhi.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: a bit of history and/or about our culture and the music we like.

Learn: anything, we're both very curious.

Share: all of what we can!!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Ireland