CURRENT MISSION

Live in the UK in a year or two or six months

ABOUT ME

I am a curious, flexible, tolerant, resilient individual who has lived over 25 years abroad; included working as a volunteer in Haiti and Brazil.
I enjoy people of all ways of life, all origins and ethnical and religious backgrounds.
I am a teacher who cannot conceive to ever cease to learn not just about academics but about the inhabitants of this planet.
I am trying to find a teaching position in the UK.

PHILOSOPHY

Every human on his planet has a role to play and deserves to be treated as human. Perhaps because I have spent several years in the developing world, I am at times embarassed to be an occidental.
I remain with a strong faith in humanity though

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

You are welcome home if you dont mind the mess. I have a huge derelict old home which I try to fix when I have time.
The comfort is limited as far as heat and hot water are concerned but there are plenty of space for people who want to explore Vézelay and its surroundings.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had positive experience a few years ago but my account was inactive and got closed.

Interests

People of all ages and walks of life
Foreign lands and their inhabitants
Literature, castles, museums and historical sites
The sea
Anything that has to do with education and psychology; to a lesser degree with History at large.
Being involved in charities and helping children and eventually their parents of minorities

• literature
• education
• politics
• teaching
• history
• languages
• psychology
• volunteering
• historic sites

Music, Movies, and Books

I have embarassing classical taste: literature, history or books on psychology or education. Love of classical music and the opera. I favour old movies but my favourite movies are: Emir Kusturica's Le Temps des Gitans, François Truffaut's Jules et Jim, Arsenic and Old Lace.
When I am exhausted, I enjoy watching a Miss Marple series, I have all of thel, or Jeeves and Wooster.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Picking up living children abandoned in fields.
Coming to an orphanage every day in Haiti to find more orphans, naked, on the ground, covered with flies and soaking in their own diarrhea. This sounds awful; it was not, but it taught me how little we could do presently because of politics and it made me realise what it meant to be a white occidental coming from an upper class family

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach the MBTI, a good psychometric tool that entitles to understand oneself and the other.
I also speak several foreign languages.
I can share stories, particularly of Haiti but I enjoy being a listener too.