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Overview

  • 19 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning German, Spanish
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • graphic designer, traveller, climber, skier...and graphic...
  • good enough
  • From Les Arcs, in the french Alps
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

discovering the world

ABOUT ME

I love travel of course, living and enjoying life! graphic design is my job, but also part of my life. i love discovering people, countries, sights...and snow or clear water runs in my blood, cant be away from the mountains for too long!
and er..i love chocolate, warm colors and smiling

PHILOSOPHY

be curious, dream and try to live your dreams

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

just starting to participate...i can show around anyone who comes to les arcs or bourg st maurice when i have time, maybe help people find couches in the area, I'll tell my friends about couchsurfing!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

guest in Padova, Italy, couchsurfing is wonderful!!! had the opportunity to meet lots of local people, other couchsurfers, go biking in the hills around the city...already addicted!
guest again in Krakow and Vienna, went to couchsurfing meetings in Warsaw, had only great experiences so far
haven't hosted anybody yet, but I hope to do so when I can..until then, showing around the mountains if anybody wants to come!

Interests

sport (ski, mountaineering, climbing, speedriding, horseback riding, karate), drawing, listening to music, enjoying an evening with people i love, travelling, meeting new people

  • design
  • graphic design
  • cooking
  • chocolate
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • cycling
  • equestrian
  • mountaineering
  • skiing
  • sports
  • rock climbing
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: easy rider, by dennis hopper ; Tarentino movies, No country for old men, The Lord of the Ring, Les Triplettes de Belleville...La Haine, Mesrine, Juno...

Music: old rock-blues (Clapton, Jimi Hendrix), french variety (Benabar, Les Ogres de Barback), jazz, reggae, Doba Caracol, Pink Floyd, Pep's, Morcheeba, Java, Roni Size..

Books: dont read enough these days even if I love to...lots of comic books, mysteries, Bernard Werber, Louis L'Amour in english, the Lord of the Rings again, the Silmarillion, Until I find You, Travels with Herodotus (Ryszard Kapuszinsky)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

the view looking down from a peak in the Sierra Nevada... always amazing, you feel so small in the mountains, but full of life
slept on a boats roof for two nights on el rio Paraguay, saw the moon sink in the river

Teach, Learn, Share

What can you teach me?, I can teach you french, skiing, climbing, and I will show you the mountains where I live..
and I know how to make chocolate cake too :-), creps and Tartiflette. I would love to learn how to prepare a dish from all the countries I visit, even though I'm a bad cook :(

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Italy, Nepal, Paraguay, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Réunion

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