General Information
| BOwM LiBRa.ROcH has been vouched for |
| Couch available | Traveling at the moment |
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| CouchSurf requests replied to | 100% |
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| member since | October 31st, 2005 |
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| profile views | 3934 |
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| age | 36 |
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| gender | Male |
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| membername | BOwM |
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| occupation | FRuits Pickers & FilmMaker & AUthOR... handSMAKers |
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| education | GR8 teaCHers. BOwM. VAG AbONDAnCe BonDir ~ |
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| grew up in | by JUmPing ~> born in SherBrOOKe |
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| ethnicity | WarRiOR of refleXions |
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Languages- EnglishIntermediate
- SpanishBeginner
- UkrainianBeginner
- Sign Language - IntlIntermediate
- Chinese (Mandarin)Beginner
Groups I Belong ToCouch Information
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Sorif ICHOLA 34, Male Cotonou, Littoral Benin Friends since September 2008 "Hosted Roch for 3 weeks" Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
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Maya Goldman 24, Female Kohav Yair, Central district Israel Friends since October 2008 "met on couch surfing" Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
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TIGGERTIGER1 37, Male Lijiang, Yunnan China Friends since August 2008 "stayed at my place in Lijiang" Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
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Blaine Pengelly 26, Male Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada Friends since July 2006 "Roch was the one who really got me onto the idea of couch surfing. I consider him my first surfer." Friendship Type: Friend
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Ileana Vaca 31, Female Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes Mexico Friends since January 2007 "By CouchSurfing" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Andrew and Sarah Murray 30, Several people Nelson, British Columbia Canada Friends since July 2007 "Roch stayed at my house for a bit" Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
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Marco Antonio Lara Sánchez 42, Male Veracruz, Veracruz Mexico Friends since January 2007 "El me llamó por teléfono estando en Veracruz para solicitarme hospedaje, por supuesto que se lo dí." Friendship Type: Best Friend
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Joshua Greenberg 21, Male Lillooet, British Columbia Canada Friends since July 2007 "ROch blessed us with his presence and occupied our couch for a night." Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
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Savanah 42, Female Vancouver, British Columbia Canada Friends since December 2007 "met through spirituality meet up group" Friendship Type: Good Friend
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Myska and Piddy 26, Several people Prague, Praha Czech Republic Friends since May 1940 "from heart...." Friendship Type: Close Friend
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PhilosophyLeaVing in LoVing in LiVing in lEARning in LoOPing ~ What i am thinking about, I am ThAnKinG abOut and I am bridging - BRiNGiNG ABout ..~ ! DO you FEeL it, GOOd? Music, Movies, BooksThe Divine Bell and the butterFly!..., Albert Camus, Paul Auster, Richard Bach, Aleister Crowley, Edgar Cayce, Jung, Gurdjieff, Shambhala, Roman Polanski, Claude Jutra, Francois Truffaut, Gilles Groulx, Leonard Forest, Don Miguel Ruiz, Felix, Jean Leclerc, Leloup, Daniel Boucher, Bélanger, Claude Dubois, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Robert Charlebois, Les Colocs, Boule Noire, BV3 ...
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BeDo BEdobeDObedoBEdo do BE doDO be BEe DOoo! Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org ProjectWOw hOw nOW! MorE to DisCOveR .. OUT your surPrise bOX. SUGgestions too www.. servas.org, northshorecompass.com, giftsfilms.com, torTUga.com, giftsfilms.com, artfifa.com, hospitalityClub.org, lePouceux.com, staynomad.com, cwy-jcm.org, cj.qc.ca, ...Locations TraveledTRAVELED: Andorra, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, The Bahamas, United States, Vatican City LIVED: Belize, Canada, Cuba, Estonia, France, Guatemala, Mexico, Turkey, Ukraine WANTS TO GO: China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam IS GOING TO: Canada References
From Emily Wright Ottawa, Canada Oct 13 Positive You are so awesome, Roch! High baller cherry picker extraordinaire. I'll never forget the day at the beach. :)
From Chris Castro Beijing, China Jun 23 Positive On the first night of his arrival, Terror Squad was greeted by the SWAT team. It turns out he left his bags a little to long unattended and the Pizza Hut. He is a respectful person who has many experiences to share. I hope we can meet again.
From Jeremie Coussau Magescq, France Jun 15 Positive Roch is an interesting person with a strong traveling experience.
It was nice to share a month and a flat with you "mate". Even if sometime I don't understand your French from Canada ;-p
Keep travelling with a mind as open as possible -> "To the infinite ... and beyond !"
From Junjie Shao Tengchong, China Mar 24 Positive i would like to help !
From Mathieu Girard Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Mar 22 Positive Roch is a wonderful guy. Thanks to him, my head is full of travelling dreams... I really enjoyed the time spent with him, talking about experiences, ideas, and well... having fun ! Without him i couldn't know who is Elvis Gratton ! "Roch est mon chum !"
From Richard Juckes Haikou, China Mar 20 Positive We had a good time talking to ROcH and it was a reassuring introduction to Couchsurfing for us. I hope our paths cross again sometime in the future.
From Stan Krivak Nanning, China Mar 15 Positive I've spent one lazy Sunday afternoon with Roch. He's very interesting person and you definitely want to meet him if you get a chance. He has very rich traveling experience and is very friendly character. Good luck on your travels my friend. Send your writing when you decide to share it.
From Marian Rosenberg Haikou, China Mar 12 Positive I'm a really lazy housekeeper and this totally cool guy cleaned my apartment while I was out.
We also had some really interesting conversations. He's been doing the nomad thing for many many years and has lots of stories to tell.
From Jacob Rivkin Baltimore, United States Mar 9 Positive Roch is a chill guy with lots of great ideas. It was a pleasure having him surf my couch for a few days even with the rain pouring buckets outside. Safe travels and keep on writing and drawing!
From Jean-Christophe LAOT Guilin, China Mar 6 Positive Roch is a quiet independant laid-back guy from Quebec. He told me a lot about his 7 years of peregrination and sharing experiences (fruits picking in Australia, english teacher in kindergarden in Kunming,computing internship in Paris, travel in Laos and Cambodge, Turquy.. .) In spite of the rain during these 3days, he found among other things an opportunity to share his travelling experiences in english with chinese kids in a college thanks to the contact of another couchsurfer.I was working but i could spent some time with him in Guilin, at the restaurant, with my neighboor or with friends at a birthday-concert party in a bar.We had some funny talks too.Have a great time in Beihai, and good return in Quebec this year!
From Krystyna Stankowska Hangzhou, China Mar 4 Positive CS let's you cross your roads with many different people! Roch is definitely one of those non-standard travelers going on their very own path and very, very, very observant. You will be surprised with his life story he will tell and immediately start to wander : would you be able to do it. Interesting conversation and pleasant company is waiting for you. Host Roch!
From Matt Crowe Launceston, Australia Feb 14 Positive Roch was just a great guy , quiet at first but once you got to know him he would open up and talk up a storm. Very grateful and genuine and a pleasure to have around. I hope he does eventually make it back here and looks me up again.
From Suyai Steinhauer Los Angeles, United States Feb 14 Positive Lovely couchsurfing connection... Roch was a great sous chef... we cooked a delicious meal, watched a terrible movie and had great conversation. I hope to cross paths again with this very free spirit... Bon voyage!
From innersound Melbourne, Australia Feb 14 Positive Couchsurfing can be a magic pool of SpIRaL water.. And the cinematic, engimatic BoWm LaRoche can be found swimming in it. He has perfected the art of travail/travel. Let him talk about the some the lifestyle options he has tried and you will find out more about the world et Quebec.
ViiiVe LaaLiberte de loTCh Roatch vIdeO Clipzz!!!
PS ToUjOUrs PrEPare.. Champion de Dishes et Soup..
From Matthias Hartwig Paderborn, Germany Feb 12 Positive Very interesting person who has seen and done a lot and can still laugh. Extremely pleasant person. Excellent at whistling...
From Maya Goldman Kohav Yair, Israel Dec 2, 2008 Positive Roch has a good heart and a spirit of a poet.
good luck with your travells
miss you
maya
From Michael Godwin Perth, Australia Nov 25, 2008 Positive Roch really thinks about what he says before he speaks. A quiet nature with an intelligent angle. The man has travelled a lot with many interesting stories to tell. He didn't really expect to wind up here, but I'm glad he did. Bon voyage.
From Roberto Perozzi London, United Kingdom Nov 1, 2008 Positive Hola''........Any Cherry jet?
From Sorif ICHOLA Cotonou, Benin Oct 10, 2008 Positive Thanks Roch for all these nice things you wrote about me. Don't thank me though just make sure you pay it forward whenever you can. Roch is a nice guy to have around the house. Willing to lend a hand anytime. Merci pour les formulaires Roch et à bientôt.
From Myska and Piddy Prague, Czech Republic Sep 22, 2008 Positive So, where is my bunch of bananas???
-> I really have no clue!
Now he's got to refocus, cause he's now a trader.
Brother, you're great, good (trader's) luck in Oz!!!
From XiaoLi Liu Chengdu, China Aug 23, 2008 Positive Bown is a cool guy.i'm amazed at his 7 years travelling,and his crazy movie!hope to meet u again at YunNan the next year:)
From TIGGERTIGER1 Lijiang, China Aug 11, 2008 Positive Roch is an interesting character. A bit of an enigma: a vagabound yet very housetrained; a rolling stone who gathers moss; a constant traveller who is both lost and found. Hope you find what you are looking for . . .
From AIRYN Surrey, Canada Apr 20, 2008 Positive Over the past couple of years Roch and I have morphed our couch host/surfer relationship to friendship.
He's always been a very considerate guest; tidy, friendly, unimposing. He's also trustworthy, and trusting, having left me his car for a couple weeks while he was at film school. Granted I didn't drive it except to pick him up at the ferry! It was a bit of a scary contraption. ;-)
Roch has a wonderful sense of humour and I really enjoy spending time with him. I'm going to miss him while he's in China!
I'd recommend him as a couchsurfer, a host, and a friend. He's a wonderful guy!
From Dove Burnaby, Canada Apr 10, 2008 Positive He is a very cool guy and we share a bunch of similiar spiritual/creative interests. I think he's in Asia now and hopefully having a great time!
Safe Journies Roch and keep taking pics and writing about your experiences, eh? '=^j
From Tak . Osaka, Japan Apr 7, 2008 Positive Oh, this crazily friendly guy's friendliness is amazing! I searched his face at my friend list in my brain upon first greeting, as if I met him before.
It's shame we sat on the opposite side of a huge chinese table and couldn't talk much!
From JILIHERBS Bellingham, United States Apr 6, 2008 Positive I met Roch in a cafe in Kunming China. I can tell he is a traveller with a kind heart. Plus he is on couchsurfing too!
From Savanah Vancouver, Canada Feb 29, 2008 Positive Great guy, somewhat shy but open to new experiences.
From Rob Hines Prospect, Canada Feb 3, 2008 Positive Eau la, eau la, eau la. Roch is wonderful, couch surfed with this vagabond in Vancouver at Luke Warmwaters place. Hardly noticed that we shared a small place. We both live here now and see each other occasionally.
From THINKINGMEAT Vancouver, Canada Nov 1, 2007 Positive Hope you didn't leave yet.
From Greg Yu Calgary, Canada Oct 15, 2007 03NOV06
What was to be a night's stay on my couch turned into barely an hour's visit. And then there was...THE ASSAULT! My cat Mito is a bad, bad cat. Baaad Kitty! He is responsible for possibly the shortest surfing/hosting experience EVER. Nevertheless, in that sliver of time, my potential Coucher made a decent impression. I would be open to "host" him "again" should The Cat be away at a boot camp, or jail. Or the cat-nuthouse!
Roch, je suis très, très désolé. Retournez s'il vous plaît autrefois quand Le Chat a lieu en vacances. Je pense qu'il est malade dans la tête.
From Ken Tomilson Vancouver, Canada Oct 14, 2007 Positive Roch is imaginative, creative and positive. He is considerate and loves to laugh and have fun. A great guest to have around, even for a longer period.
From Sharia Willis Saenz Vancouver, Canada Sep 29, 2007 Positive Roch was my first Couch Surfer on Sept 28th 2007 . He came to my house and I was cooking dinner but realized that I didnt have a few ingrediants to finish cooking ... SO we crazy kids invaded safeway and came home and ate THANKS FOR THE RIDE !!!!!... We shared great conversation about travel and now roch wants to run away again as I gave him the travel bug and he wants to go on more vacations because I was looking at pic's that made him nostalgic for travel SORRY ROCH maybe I can join you want to come with me to Brazil??? GOOD LUCK for asia im sure you will have alot of fun where ever you go .... i wanna hear the story of the 3 pigs and the baboon that he told me that the little kids in Belize asked him to tell sounds interesting!!!!! GOOD LUCK on all your travels and welcome to Vancouver have fun at the VIFF.org
~*~*SHARIA*~*~
From Yan Levasseur Montreal, Canada Sep 2, 2007 Positive Roch and I seem like we have much in common. Interests, a happy face and the will to pursue our dreams. Hope to have the chance to have a real chat with you sometime !
From Joshua Greenberg Lillooet, Canada Jul 31, 2007 Positive ROch was a wondeful traveller to have as my first couchsurfer. He showed us indie films he made, we went to the Nelson Weekend market together and learned how to play the Jambays. Would be priveleged to have him again and hope nothing but the best for him.
From Andrew and Sarah Murray Nelson, Canada Jul 14, 2007 Positive Roch was and excellent guest. Very polite and entertaining.
From Myriam St-Denis Lisée Montreal, Canada Jun 6, 2007 Positive Roch est une personne très ouverte, sans vraiment de sujets tabous, et très ouvert également à faire diverses activités. J'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir en sa compagnie :) Un vrai écrivain dans l'âme!
From Alejandro Lopez G Mexico City, Mexico Mar 16, 2007 Positive Roch surfed my couch. We got 2 good days, talking about all the places he's travelled to. Je espère te trouver une autre fois Rock!
From Kadi Diop Montreal, Canada Mar 14, 2007 Positive Roch was a good surfer, very kind and polite. It was cool having him as a surfer! Bonne chance dans tes voyages et a bientot!
From Julien Rastouil Paris, France Mar 12, 2007 Positive I met Roch in Mexico thanks to a common couchsurfing friend.
This guy is a real traveler, passionate, and un poco loco.
Success for your trip in Asia, See you somewhere else in the world.
From DRFEELAWESOME San Ignacio, Belize Feb 13, 2007 Positive Cool dude to hang out with!
From Ileana Vaca Aguascalientes, Mexico Jan 16, 2007 Positive Bowm is a great man. I'm so happy to know him. My best wishes to him :-)
I hope see him again.
From ARTLITE Warsaw, Poland Jan 10, 2007 Positive I'd say, even under oath, that Roch is a good and low-maintance guest! Roch surfed my coach for 5 nights in early December. We had some deep, personal conversations and he's definately one of the people this site was created for. He's a drifter, much of a professional - if you ask i'm sure he's gonna grace you with the stories about traveling in a van throughout South America. Pretty challenging, huh?! You never have to clean after him and i'd consider him as someone credible and easy-to-cope with. Cheers maete!
From Eric Muth Belgrade, Serbia Jan 8, 2007 Positive Great guy, a little shy, but fun man to have pass on by. Good ideas. Fun fun.
From Dan Van Geest Waterloo, Canada Nov 9, 2006 Positive Roch is a very interesting guy. He was just passing through Kitchener on his way out west and was very friendly with interesting stories. He also brought some tasty canned duck!
From Balazs Kovacs Budapest, Hungary Oct 13, 2006 Positive Roch is an inspiring person. I think that's one of the biggest compliments I can come up with. He is sensitive, intelligent, thoughtful.
I enjoyed my chat with him tremendously.
From Amy Torgunrud Revelstoke, Canada Oct 7, 2006 Positive Roch is super original and enjoyable person who seems to thrive on moving about. We were in a group that did volunteer work in Ukraine. I met him again in Poland and he stopped in at my place in Revelstoke while travelling around the country.
From MANGUP Prague, Czech Republic Sep 11, 2006 Positive Roch is great! Told me marvelousstories about his travels!!! Take care, man!! We see each other in some part of the world!!!
From Blaine Pengelly Halifax, Canada Aug 16, 2006 Positive Roch was great to share with. I really enjoyed hosting him and hearing his stories. He really opened me to the idea of couch surfing and meeting people this way. This is definetly a positive step towards peace and understanding between people.
From Sandra Sherlow-Platt Victoria, Canada Aug 1, 2006 Positive Roch is so well travelled!He's been to so many places I've yet to dream of going, and I'm sure he'll go to many more. He left unscathed by our 3 cats, for which I am very glad!
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