Youenn Leborgne's Photo

Verified Profile

  • Payment verified
  • Phone verified
  • Government ID verified

Wants to Meet Up

  • Last login over 1 year ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Youenn’s full profile.

Overview

  • 20 references 11 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning Persian (Farsi)
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Instructional designer/project manager
  • MSc in Digital Education
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 100% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

As I just moved to Montpellier, I want to meet people living in the city.

ABOUT ME

I think I'm a passionate, easy going and open-minded French guy. I love travelling, learning languages, exploring and understanding new places and cultures and sharing my experiences with others.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is not that long and must be lived at full: follow your passion, explore the world, meet others and share with them

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to know places from the inside and if I can't stay long enough in a place, couchsuring really helps. It also enables me to kind of "travel" from home, when I host travellers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I used couchsurfing in Athens and Palestine and had a great time: I could enjoy a more "alternative" version of a few cities and it definitely helped me understand them better.

I also hosted a lot of people trying to make their stay as enjoyable as possible and sharing our way of life here in France. In turn, I've thoroughly enjoyed getting to know my visitors' personalities, experiences and points of views and I feel they have broadened my perspectives in various ways.

Interests

I'm interested in anything related to arts, nature, culture and the many different ways of living on this gorgeous and varied little planet.

I love so many other things but top of the list would be music, photography, languages, cinema and hiking

  • arts
  • literature
  • poetry
  • photography
  • cooking
  • walking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • camping
  • journalism
  • languages
  • cinema
  • nature
  • film photography
  • sharing experiences
  • photography,

Music, Movies, and Books

L'Ecume des Jours (Foam of the Daze) by Boris Vian,
Dans les Forêts de Sibérie (Consolations of the forest: A lone cabin in the middle taiga)
by Sylvain Tesson
Le Club des Incorrigibles Optimistes (the Incorrigible Optimists Club) by Jean-Michel Guenassia
Continental Drift by Russel Banks
Shantaram by Gregory D. Roberts
On The Road by Jack Kerouac,
The Play Ethic

Homayoun Shajarian,
Lykke Li,
Portishead,
Wax Tailor,
Pretty Lights,
Noir Désir,
Benjamin Clementine,
Jack White,
Jimi Hendrix,
Miles Davis
John Coltrane,
Serge Gainsbourg
Georges Brassens,
Daft Punk

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was about to describe some wilderness experience in the U.S., Argentina or Brittany where I'm from and then I realized:

- I lived 9 years with the most perfect girl in the world
- I had a 1 year relationship with the most fascinating girl in the world (or is she from a different planet?)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can definitely teach a bit of French, English, Spanish, some photography tips as well as some French and Italian recipes. Most of all, I can mostly share my life expriences, which have been pretty intense.

I can also share some useful hiking and camping tips as I've become more experienced over the years.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Chilling out and chatting at my place around good food and wine, going out to very good and surprising bars and venues that I like.

I love to hang out, share reflexions about many things, from relationships to the different cultures and ways of living that I've come accross.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Palestine, Portugal, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United Kingdom

Old School Badges

  • Pioneer Badge

Join Couchsurfing to see Youenn’s full profile.

My Groups