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Overview

  • 54 references 28 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Greek (modern)
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Web Designer & Developer
  • Technical College Degree (multimedia)
  • From Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Showing people around Montreal (if i have time..! )

ABOUT ME

I work as a freelance web designer.

People say Im:
-friendly
-dynamic
-adventurous
-outgoing
-direct
-authenthic

PHILOSOPHY

Traveling makes me stay alive. I love traveling, discovering other cultures, other ways to live. See life from another point of view. And I feel I have to do it now, now that I don't have any responsibilities.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have been hosted several times in Europe, in New Zealand and Australia. I was also very active in the CS Community in Bali.

Now i am now back home in Montreal and I am looking forward to give back to the community.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed a lot, everywhere around the world:
- Spain (4 hosts)
- France (5 hosts)
- Mexico (1 host)
- Australia (3 hosts, 2 of them a few weeks!)
- New Zealand (5 hosts, once on a dairy farm)
- Indonesia (2 hosts)
- Malaysia (1 host)
- Brazil (2 host)
- Florida (1 host = BOAT!)
- Scotland (1 host)

I also hosted people a few (6-7) times (i prefer not hosting than not having time for my guests)

Interests

I love to do :
-traveling
-diving
-white water canoeing
-hiking
-dancing (salsa, swing,j ive, west coast swing, blues)
- learn new languages (now greek)
-cooking (love cooking for my hosts)
-web design
.. and try new things!

  • design
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • boating
  • traveling
  • alpinism
  • hiking
  • canoeing
  • camping
  • scuba diving
  • rock climbing
  • freelancing
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
13 going 30
Cube
What dreams may come
the Dexter & House of Cards series
Big Bang Theory + Young Sheldon(!!!im a nerd)

MUSIC
All kinds of stuff... from pop to ska, to Brazilian music, to salsa, to blues and jazz, to reggae, to electro.. and more and more stuff as I travel

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Anapurna Circuit (13 days) in Nepal
-Inca trail to Macchu Picchu in Peru
-Nightdive on the US liberty shipwreck
-Diving with manta rays :) and mola-mola in Bali
-Climbing Mt Agung (Bali) at sunrise, exhausting!
-Climbing Mt Rinjani (Lombok), incredible!
-Program with an NGO in Ecuador and in Senegal
-One week canoe camping in Quebec
-Two weeks in Fiorlands in New Zealand (helpex.net)
-Roadtrip in the outback in Australia
-Foz do Iguacu..wow!
-Spent a week on a liveabord catamaran in the Florida Keys
-Alpinism in the Valais (Switzerland - Aiguille du Tour)

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach you how to dance lindy hop, west coast swing or cook my famous tex mex salad.
Practice the languages I know
Share my knowledge about web design/web marketing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Travel stories, my joy of living :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ecuador, Senegal

Old School Badges

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