3 years into my founding experience, it became clear I wasn't made for sales and business development. I spent the lockdown soul searching, reading books, journaling and meditating. I applied to The Economist, the French and the German army, to a masters in Journalism and one in Politics, I did an internship as a Forester, then tried my hand at motorcycle maintenance, photography and website building.

For now, I settled on a master of open design in Buenos Aires, a volunteership in the Tech Team of the World Food Programme in Romes bartending in Munich, and a project management certification.

Since I can do all of it anywhere, I'm going to do it in South America from October onwards.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Easy: experiencing a place through the lens and with the help and guidance of a local is the single most influential factor on how meaningful and enjoyable the visit of a place can be ❤️

In that sense, I try to both tap into this beautiful resource and to contribute to it

Interests

Passionate photographer, you can find of my work on Instagram (@jm.riviere)

Been fitness-kickboxing for 3 years now, coached it for 1.5

I love fast paced sports, cooking vegetarian dishes (favorite cook: Ottolenghi), and eating.

I'm very interested in languages, and enjoy thinking and writing about it - ask me about my littls magazine, the designing linguist!

• writing
• photography
• cooking
• vegetarian
• surfing
• languages
• eating
• novels
• kickboxing
• keto
• yoga and meditation

Music, Movies, and Books

🎵
Current favorite song: Bones, by Mysie
Most consistent favorite artist: Childish Gambino
Up and coming: Khotton Palm

📚
Books that have left deep impressions on me recently:
- slaughterhouse 5
- the things they carried
- le grand cirque
- Catch-22
- les derniers jours de nos pères

- extremely loud and incredibly close
- la nausée
- the dharma bums
- Siddhartha

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I don't watch as many movies as I'd like to, so I still think of Blade Runner 2049 first

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Becoming an astronaut in a Netflix documentary

Teach, Learn, Share

What I can teach:
- fitness kickboxing - get ready to let out all of your energy, bad thoughts, and troubles🥊
- a lot of random facts about languages, and cool words from different languages, as well as invented ones (dictionary of obscure sorrows, anyone?)
- my absolute favorite ottolenghi dish, a guaranteed banger 🍅🥔🍆🧅

What I Can Share with Hosts

Passionate cooking, thoughtful Spotify playlists, intense workouts (or chill ones, of course), basic boxing skills, ...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Malaysia, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Singapore, Spain