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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, French; learning Cree, Mongolian, Portuguese, Sinhala, Sinhalese
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Travelling, studying and party with good friends.
  • Master in anthropology
  • From Candiac, a suburb of Montreal, Canada.
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Learn mongolian.

ABOUT ME

I love to learn more about new cultures and languages and to me the best way is to travel and talk to everyone.
I'm a student of anthropology at the University of Montreal (Canada) i'm specializing in ethno-history and in the impact of environnemental change on nomadic populations.
I like to push my own limit and give myself new projects. Now i'm planning to perfect my spoken mongolian and eventually finish my Master.

PHILOSOPHY

Each person have a good story to tell, it's fun to listen.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

at the moment i don't have any couch, i stay at one of my friends home before my travel. But i will be totally happy to help any traveller who will come to Montreal. contact me and i will bring you to a lots of crazy parties, the bests bars, i could tell you about all the history of that incredible city and be your tour guide. There's a lot of place to go and things to see. I could also give you some advice for travelling in the Québec province.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None. But i will try it most certainly during the next month, in Mongolia.

Interests

Trekking in the mountain, having a few beer with good friends, learning a new language or a new writing, travelling in general.

  • arts
  • writing
  • beer
  • partying
  • cartoons
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • anthropology
  • history
  • languages
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

I love portuguese reggae and batucada, tuvan rock, mongolian rap, afrobeat music and Pakistani Qawalli.
The last book that i have read is ''hundred years of loneliness'' from Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
I love the old samurai movies from Akira Kurosawa, otherwise i love the ''B'' rated movies and the very old horror movies.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A two day trek in the beautiful Chapada Diamantina in Brasil.
Wash an elephant, while drunk, in a river in Sri Lanka.
Hichhike up to the end of the world in northern Quebec, and then live there three months in a tent.
Try to learn the mysterious art of the ''echo''.

That's the first thing who come to my mind at the moment.

Teach, Learn, Share

I could learn you to speak french, to draw portrait (i use to make cartoons), to write in sinhalese or in cree, i could learn you a few stories or even a few jokes, i could learn you how to make a bannick, i could also help you to wash your dishes and clean up your appartment.
On the other side i will be open to learn a lot. I'm very curious.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, China, France, Mongolia, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Sri Lanka

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