A French Canadian adventure traveler, software engineer, polyglot, and pianist. From Montréal and now based in NYC, with my share of backpacking, living abroad, and couchsurfing stories to share.

I'm interested in your city, your culture, your language, and yourself! I'm always up for an adventure in good company, or simply a nice chat. Let's skip the beer and go straight to tea and hot chocolate ;).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing matches my values: sharing my space and experiences, turning strangers into friends, and opening up to the cultures of the world. I try to meet at least one interesting person every week. Would you be the next one?

Interests

• Travel and adventures
• Hiking, biking and backpacking
• Languages, people and cultures of the world
• Software engineering
• Personal development and public speaking
• Piano and music theory
• Salsa and tango dancing
• Flying trapeze, unicycling and juggling
• Society and politics

Or maybe you'll show me something I can add to this list? I'm up to try everything that makes for a good story!

• salsa dancing
• tango
• capoeira
• piano
• hiking
• backpacking
• camping
• languages
• adventure travel
• personal development
• biking
• toastmasters
• programming
• latin america
• trapeze
• public speaking

Music, Movies, and Books

I outsource my book recommendations to the interesting people I meet, which makes for a broad palette of genres. Oddly, I don't listen to much music, but I play the piano and dance salsa regularly. Movies, series and TV have never been my thing. I'll play one or two videogames a year, especially retro/indie Metroidvanias.

YouTube piano channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/TrillianOnPiano

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Living in all three North American countries.
Presiding over a Toastmasters club.
Becoming a hexaglot.
Couchsurfing my way around the world.
Page turning lyrics for Broadway billionaires.
Shipping the Windows 10 update that broke my dad's computer.
Playing piano for the C++ Standards Committee.
Juggling on a unicycle in a skydiving suit.
Evaluating a Costa Rican oratory contest.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Estonia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Mexico, Switzerland, United States