Hi there ! It's been a while I've not filled in my profile page. I'm living in Arras, France and I'm looking for meeting new people. I can give passing travelers a shelter for a few nights. I'd like to give opportunities in my life to share tales and a good moment with people from elsewhere, and I believe Courchsurfing will drive me through these possibilities ^^ I'm a nice 25-old teacher, half-time working at a secondary school, half-time studying didactic sciences and teen pedagogy.
I spend most of my spare time as a Scout leader in a cheerful Scout group.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I subscribed to Couchsurfing while I was living in Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA. Why? Once I arrived in that campus city, I realized a lot of foreigners lived there. Not only students, but also workers and teachers, most people did not grow up inside the state of illinois (Indians and Chineses were really common on the campus. I also met Swedish students, even my housemates and landlords were German...). Then I told myself : "I'm not the only foreign visitor, why should I not welcome people like me, who are new in town?"...

I thought about the same idea when I moved to Berlin, Germany, but the landlady did not allow me to invite unknown strangers (and I couldn't let them sneak in for she was living on the same flat).

I hope I could quickly get a new accommodation soon, so I'll be able to put up visitors and great travellers who can make my day a bit more peculiar.

Interests

- Climbing
- Cinema
- TV series
- Programming
- Music

• cats
• books
• festivals
• beer
• flying
• movies
• tv
• music
• camping
• skiing
• rock climbing
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC

Tunes I appreciate most :

Brief Encounters - Franz Ferdinand, Undisclosed Desires - Muse, Traumfrau - And One, Buffalo Soldier - Bob Marley, Free Birds - Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wie weit - Apocalyptica/Marta Jandova, La Supplique [...] - Georges Brassens, Into The Battle - Ensiferum, Without Me - Eminem, Yesterday - The Beatles, Träumst Du - Oomph! Ave Maria - Tarja Turunen, Stupeflip Vite ! - Stupeflip, Ghost - Skip The Use, Tebernako - Eluveitie, Op 64. n°2 Waltz C sharp minor - Chopin, Electrodynamix - DJ Nate, Banquet - Bloc Party, Si seulement [...] - Calogero, Seemann - Rammstein, All Good Things - Nelly Furtado, Burden - Opeth, Again We Rise - Lamb of God, When A Blind Man Cries - Deep Purple, Hot Stuff - Donna Summer, Glorious Morning - Waterflame, Rainin in Paradise - Manu Chao, Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz, Follow The Reaper - Children of Bodom, Hell Raiser - Ozzy Osbourne, Mao Boy - Indochine, Downstream - Shira Kammen, Mother Earth - Within Temptation, The Fatalist - Dark Tranquillity, Born Dead Buried Alive - The Agonist, Tribute - Tenacious D, Charades - Serj Tankian, Strutter - Kiss, Telephon - Lady Gaga, Jolie Coquine - Caravan Palace, Here I Come - Ice Cube, Precious - Depeche Mode, I Don't Like the Drugs - Marilyn Manson,

I think I was pretty fair to all musical genres...

FAVORITE BOOKS

1984 - George Orwell, Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown, A Game Of Thrones - George R. R. Martin... These are roughly the sole novel books I've read so far. Otherwise I read french/belgian comics (Kid Paddle, Gaston Lagaffe, Dofus...)

FAVORITE FILMS

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Ten best stuffs of my checking list I've done or achieved in my single life so far:

. Get lost in a wood surrounding Buchenwald's camp at the age of 14 during a harsh winter. Check!

. Encounter wild deers on the road to the Ballon de Guebwiller, Vosges, France. Check!

. Rescue a red-haired kitten from drowning in a sewage pipe, adopt and take care of him until he becomes the Alpha among alley cats. Check!

. Build a wooden watchtower during a Scout camp. Check!

. Sneak off with mom's car and friends to attend the W.O.A. festival at Wacken, Germany at least once in my life. Check!

. Climb up and rappel down a 100m-high clief in Vercors, France. Check!

. Ski down 2300m in height at the ski resort of the 2 Alpes, France. Check!

. Get one's Passport + VISA J1, move home from Lyon to Lille, buy an airline ticket, book an Inn & Suites room, catch a TGV train to Paris CDG airport, fly to Chicago O'Hare International Airport, catch the last train at Union station 5 min before departure, check in at the hostel, and work at the lab the day after... all within only 48h! Check!

. Clone regulatory genes which are key to limb developments, innoculate pig embryos with the subsequent RNA probes, and get results published in Nature. Check!

. Make love to the prettiest woman I've ever met in the whole world. Check!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm keen on learning foreign languages and discovering new cultures! My current trend is Brasilian Portuguese.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Want some Maroilles chese or Belgian beers?

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Martinique, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, United States