Hi there !
I'm a French exchange student in Australia for a year, in Monash university, in Clayton.
I arrived in Australia in July and I'm just loving it, especially Melbourne and its hipster vibes.
Before coming to Australia, I hitchhiked in Europe with a group of 25 friends and acquaintances (yes, you read well, we were 25 haha) from Paris to Poland and then from Poland to Durham in England. I just adored it (even though hitchhiking may be hard sometimes) and I used couchsurfing for the first time during this trip ! This trip wouldn't have been the same without my four cousurfing hosts, and I'm so grateful to them for making me discover their city through a new lens.
Now, I'm backpacking around Australia and South East Asia but I'm missing the couchsurfing experience. Because I'm travelling with a group of friends, I don't meet that many local people.
Also, I'm enthusiastic, optimistic I guess, and I would like to be a journalist or to work in public affairs. I'm passionate with gender studies, I'm also feminist (don't be afraid, I'm kind haha). I love running, hiking, reading, and meeting new people (that's part of the reason I would like to be a journalist).
I guess that's more than enough, I'm also trying to improve my English and lose my French accent hopefully.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

So as I said before, I'm on Couchsurfing to meet new people. I'm convinced that you can learn a lot from the others, and social skills are more than important in everydays life.
I just wanna question my way of thinking and living by getting to know people that I would have never met otherwise. I wanna get out of my bubble.

Interests

- running : I used to be in an athletics club in France and now I would like to get involved in Monash athletics or running club. That's the new aim of the semester... I love cross country, with the mud and the final sprint...

- hanging out with my friends and my family : cafes, hidden bars, chill out home parties. I don't really like clubs (ok, I do not like them at all haha) but I'm always down for meet ups.

- travellling : yes, I love it. I used to travel a lot with my family. I just caught up with them in Vietnam last December. I also did a lot of backpacking in Europe (the hitchhiking trip), in Australia and in South East Asia. With my mother, we went to India twice, I don't have that much words to describe these trips but I can tell you that I can't wait to come back there.

- reading : especially newspapers, gender studies articles, and some fiction books as well.

- journalism and current affairs : I'm a freelance journalist for a French newspaper and I'm a student in Politics and Arts - the name of my home university in France is Sciences Po Paris, it's an abbreviation of "Sciences Politiques Paris", and "Sciences Politiques" means in English... "Politics". There you go !

• backpacking
• sightseeing

Music, Movies, and Books

Hummmm now I'm listening a lot to French music, so I'm not sure that you know the following French groups : La Femme, Fauve. I also love Parov Stelar and basically I love listinening to pop/rock/indie music. And sometimes French rap music (I don't manage to understand the lyrics in English-speaking rap...).

For the movies, my favourite movie is Blue is the warmest colour (La vie d'Adele in French). Otherwise, I watch a few series : House of cards, Orange is the new black, Gilmore girls, and, last but not least, How I met your mother (That's the only series with whom I managed to watch all the seasons and episodes... So proud !)

For the books, I don't read a lot of fiction books. But I just read an empowering book about feminism that I adored, called "King Kong theorie" (in French) by Virginie Despentes.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking for a month maybe ?

What I Can Share with Hosts

My enthusiasm, my travels, I can also cook French crepes and give you the best advices about French cheeses (missing them so much !!!!!).

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Martinique, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Réunion, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France