Anne ASTOIN's Photo

Unverified Profile

  • Payment not verified
  • Phone not verified
  • Government ID not verified

Not Accepting Guests

  • Last login over 2 years ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Anne’s full profile.

Overview

  • 7 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in French; learning English, German, Tamil
  • 47, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • travelling... enjoy...
  • university (programming computer)
  • From Paris - France
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I want enjoy my life the maximum

ABOUT ME

I've been working for the last 5 years as a software engineer in paris. And leaved 2 years in pondicherry (southern india).
Now I'm back to Paris for a while ....
I'm very interested to learn from people and different cultures.

PHILOSOPHY

I really like this poem of Samuel Ullman

"Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the Infinite, so long are you young.

When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty."

Interests

Travel, music, cinema, books, diving, snowbord, watching sun rise, driving my bicycle, drinking, dancing, enjoy...

  • animals
  • books
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • meditation
  • drinking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • scuba diving
  • engineering
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

Musics:
queen of the stonage, pantha du prince, waldeck, french cowboy, noze, Dj Chloé, tom waits, buck 65, why, herman dune, roots manuva, busdriver, beastie boys, herbalizer, monk, coltrane, mingus, nina simone, sporto kantes, dj vadim, kraftwerk, aphex twin, dj krush, dj shadow, kid Koala, prefuse 73, stereolab, sonic youth, blond readhead, rubin steiner, cinematic orchestra, amon tobin, third eye foundation, 2 Many Dj's, max romeo, animal collective, gainsbourg, LKJ, gladiators, bob marley, mahmoud ahmed, ekova, wax tailor, RJD2, troublemarkers, hightone, blockhead, kruder & dorfmeister, cocorosie, patriotic sunday, ttc, zap mama, subtle, sixtoo...
Movies:
Coen brother, Jim jarmusch, Tarantino, win Wenders, Rodriguez, Terry Gilliam, Michel Gondry, Jean-pierre Jeunet,
Delicatessen, La Cite des enfants perdus, brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, les ailes du desir, down by low, paris texas, gost dog, dead man, Dark blue, thyko moon...
Books:
paul auster, hygienne de l'assassin, hammett, Bret easton ellis, boris vian, fred vargas, zweig, James Ellroy, les fourmis, bilal, corto maltese (hugo pratt), jorodowsky ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I worked 1 month with tigers in thailand, it was an amasing experience.
we slept in a temple with monks and tigers and so many other animals (bears, leopar, camel, water buffalo...)
every evening we went do meditation with the monk.
and the day we worked with thai people so I learned a little bit thai language.
I'll never forget this experience

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Côte d'Ivoire, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Niger, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom, Venezuela, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, India

Join Couchsurfing to see Anne’s full profile.