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Overview

  • 46 references 25 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian, Sign Language - BSL, AUSLAN, NZS; learning Spanish
  • 42, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Child Care industry
  • No education listed
  • From Saint-Dizier 52100 in Champagne Ardennes in France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION Enjoying my life!!! ABOUT ME What about me? I am French, just turned 36 years old with a passion for tourism, people, languages, travels, photos, children... By making my passion my job and my job my passion, I had the chance to travel a lot... everything started end of 2010 when i made changes in my life... After a year in New Zealand, few months in Kos (a greek island), few weeks in Italy, and 6 months working on a cruise ship, I am now living in Australia for over 5 years, looking forward to always living new adventures and meeting wonderful soul mates... I am a really sociable, easy going, open-minded and smiling woman... :-) PHILOSOPHY "Make your life a dream, and make a dream, a reality." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ... "Luckyness doesn't do anything. Everything has to be built step by step, in friendship or opportunities." Barbara Bush

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

For Kos: I hosted and I hang out with couchsurfers.
For France: I participated in couchsurfing hanging out with couchsurfers... I know what hosting is, so even if I couldn't host people for a couch, I was always ready to hang out, to show my city and my country, to make people discovered french food, wine, music, ... and to share lots of other things...
For Australia, while i was living in Hornsby, I hosted and offered my sofa bed ;-) Now, I am able to host CSfers at my place in Canberra.
For the rest of the world: I'm glad to surf a couch and spend time with my new friends and I am also participating to meetings...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My experiences of couchsurfing were awesome! I had a wonderful first host in Singapore and I met really nice couchsurfers there as well... And it is now a pleasure to meet couchsurfers everywhere... :)

Interests

I like the simple things of life, having a walk, chatting, hanging out, meeting old and new friends, eating, drinking, partying, taking photos, learning heaps of languages, baking, reading, watching movies, enjoying the nature, travelling, watching rugby match, dancing,... I am also into rowing on the lake next to my place and a member of a tennis club.

  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • wine
  • instructor
  • partying
  • drinking
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • kayaking
  • tennis
  • rugby
  • swimming
  • rowing
  • world cup
  • languages
  • science
  • tourism
  • volunteering
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I especially like action and comedy movies, and books related to reality stories. I am listening to every type of music except electronic if played excessively.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Piloting an airplane when I was 18 with an instructor. Horse riding in Andalucia. Hiking and trekking the Tongariro Alpine Crossing 19,4 kms walk a day in the wonderful Tongariro National Park in New Zealand. Kayaking at the Abel Tasman National Park in New Zealand. My volunteer experience for the Rugby World Cup... Celebrating my birthday on a hot air balloon during the Balloons over Waikato festival in Hamilton, NZ Laser eye surgery for my myopia in march 2012... Going down and walk down into a crater of the active volcano of the island of Nisyros. Sleeping on the beach in Kos island enjoying sunset and sunrise, and the only sound of the sea waves!!! Working on a cruise ship. Going to the North Pole, in a scientist village and enjoying icebergs, glaciers, and a wonderful wild nature... Naked swim for a bachelor's girl party by night in Cefalonia with the bad surprise to see that our cloth were stolen... Couchsurfing roadtrip wedding in Cefalonia. Participating in 2 Flashmob for a cruise line company. Godmother twice. Enjoying a doors off helicopter flight over Sydney. Being the wedding witness of a friend I knew for less than one year before the wedding! Travelling to destinations for weddings - super way to be in contact and learn from locals. Changing my career to the childcare industry. and learnt how to communicate with deafblind people using the Tactile Fingerspelling Auslan Sign Language. Living and working in a few countries. Becoming an Australian Permanent Resident.

Teach, Learn, Share

Let's do this in real life...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Lots of anecdotes and additional skills and knowledge...
Always up to new adventures.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Monaco, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Greece, Italy, New Zealand

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