CURRENT MISSION

To find a new way to contribute to the society's improvement, and meanwhile to have fun and meet new people !

ABOUT ME

Hi there ! Who am I ? Whaohhh... I'm a 30-year-old girl, searching for many things at the time. And to begin with : a new job. I've been working as a HR/management consultant for six years, especially tackling discrimination and promoting diversity management. Some time enough to make me want more diversity in my living-room !
Now I'm looking for another way to contribute to a social progress ; maybe something more creative ?
Meeting new people, coming from abroad, is to my point of view a very good way to get new ideas, to widen the horizons. And it's also a good way to travel without leaving your flat when the times become harder !
New job, new ideas, new friends, new horizons are not the only things I'm searching. I'm also searching for time to do and read all the things I'd like to do and read, for the will to push the door of a theatre/photography/writing course, for the best way to avoid a huge family party this summer, for a nice and quiet place by the ocean to have rest... I'd be happy to continue the list and compare with yours if you're in the neighbourhood !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted people from : Canada, Australia, USA, Taïwan, Poland, Germany - list to be continued -
I enjoyed with my Surfers wonderful breakfasts, meals, bike rides in Paris, concerts...
And I greatly surfed in Porto, Portugal !

Interests

You'll may find it weird, but I love having breakfast. I reckon it's the best time of the day. Breakfasts in Paris are not bad, especially when you can have them with friends (it often becomes a "brunch"). But breakfasts in Berlin are some of the best things on Earth according to me.
I hope I'll have the pleasure to have breakfast with you soon ! By the way, I like teatime as well (especially with a piece of cake !)...
But don't worry, I'm not having breakfast the whole day long. I'm also interested in music, architecture, photography, cinema, or radio for example. And I enjoy understanding how hidden things work (for example in factories, behind the scene of a theatre, under the streets of a town, etc.).
I'm a rather quiet girl, so if you're looking for someone able to guide you through the mysteries of Parisian nights, you might have done the wrong choice ! Neither am I a fashionista able to help with trendy shopping. But if you're looking for advice about typical -but unknown- places to see in Paris, nice tea rooms, how to attend a radio broadcasting, where to find biological food, current exhibitions, I may be the one !

• writing
• architecture
• photography
• concerts
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• breakfast
• partying
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• music
• opera
• cycling
• tourism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Some books I love : "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" & "The Witches" by Roald Dahl (my whole childhood), "The Story of a Seagull and the Cat who Taught Her to Fly" by Luis Sepulveda, "Big Blondes" by Jean Echenoz...
Some of my favourite French writers : Echenoz, Pennac, Vargas, Djian...
Some of my favourite French drawers & cartoonists : Sempé, Dupuy & Berbérian, Larcenet, Gotlib, Goscinny...
Some movies I really liked : "The Iceberg" by Abel/Gordon/Romy, "The Taste of Tea" by Katsuhito Ishii, "The Life Aquatic" by Wes Anderson, "Fauteuils d'Orchestre" by Danielle Thompson, "Coquillages et Crustacés" by Ducastel/Martineau, "J'ai Horreur de l'Amour" by Laurence Ferreira Barbosa, "L'Auberge Espagnole" by Cédric Klapisch, "The Station Agent" by MacCarthy, "Lost in Translation" by Sofia Coppola, "Be Kind Rewind" by Gondry, "The Big Lebowski" by Joel & Ethan Coen, "Ocean's Twelve" by Steven Soderbergh, "My Blueberry Nights" by Wong Kar-Wai and many girly romantic movies...
Some of French singers I really like : Thomas Fersen, Alain Souchon, Cocoon, Alain Bashung, Moriarty...
Some of my favourite music from all the rest of the world : Nada Surf, Eels, Paolo Conte, Lisa Ekdahl, the Beatles (of course !), Norah Jones, Lhasa de Sela, Suzanne Vega...
Classics : Dvorak, Brahms, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Debussy, Bach, Puccini...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching sunrise at Grand Canyon in winter (- 27° C !), with snow
Watching Etoile dancers & musicians rehearse in an empty theatre
Sleeping in the mountains, in a desert in Lebanon, at my birthday
Landing at Charles de Gaulle airport in the cockpit
Crossing one ocean to spend my holiday with a man on the other side
Discovering Niagara Falls early in the morning, with NO ONE there
Visiting the highest dance studio of Paris' Garnier Opera (round, just under the roof)
Working as a saleswoman in a bakery (terrible !)
Crossing the machines hall in an energy plant, feeling their vibrations and heat (crazy !)
Crossing Brooklyn Bridge on a scooter
Selling the newspapers in the street during the Berlin Film Festival
Counting the postcards in the underground reserves of a Parisian monument

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, French Polynesia, Germany

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