Heya,

My name is Axel, a french 20 years old boy. To describe myself the most objectively I can, I think I am an open-minded, interesting and interested, creative and calm person.
My hobbies are reading, writing and drawing, so here is my website where you can see a lil bit of my work
http://axeldasilva.wixsite.com/shaolinmindtricks

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I'm passionate by art through people, I want to get inspiration from discovering new cultures and breathing new atmospheres.

To me, traveling as an initiatic journey is one of the way to grow up, expand our knowledge and develop our senses. This is not only a mental challenge that question me about everything, but also a learning from enriching meetings, unexpected obstacles during the adventure sometimes destabilizing but always surmountable, and mostly get a certain distance from my occidental way of life, and have the benefit of hindsight and manage things in a different way.

I find Couchsurfing is a good way to travel within the everyday life of hosts and to immerse ourselves in a culture far from our country. The world is so wide and diversified... we can't stay home and wait for our destiny, we have to fulfill our dreams.

Interests

• writing
• cooking
• drawing
• cinematography
• flora and fauna
• musical movements and culture
• nature and astronomy

Music, Movies, and Books

Film directors - Stanley Kubrick, Bernardo Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, Barbet Schroeder, Andrei Tarkovsky, Dario Argento, Herzog, Jean-Luc Godard, Philippe Garrel, Akira Kurosawa, Roman Polansky, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Gaspar Noé,

Music - électronique, ambient, progressive et expérimental, psychédélique jazz, bebop, trip-hop, fuzion, punk garage, math et space rock - The Doors, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gong, Soft Machine, Can, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, Cluster, Embryo, Massive Attack

Book writers - Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S. Thompson, Lauréatmont, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Barjavel, Hugo, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, William Blake, David Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman...

BD, manga and anime - Les Passagers du Vent, Le Cycle de Cyann, Les Mondes d'Aldebaran, L'Incal, Les 6 voyages de Lone Sloane, Philémon, Yoko Tsuno, Blake & Mortimer, Blueberry, Corto Maltese, Manara, Berserk, Vagabond, Cowboy Bebop, Samuraï Champloo, Cobra, Miyazaki, Akira...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Life and Experiences.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, France