I am curious, open minded, tidy and organised when travelling with people and a mess when travelling on my own :) Do not know why...
I love food and cooking, discovering all people's culinary habits and new taste.

I am also interested in sustainability and have lived few years in an "eco-village"
I am a big fan of wwoofing (willing workers on organic farms)
volunteer activities, exchange that do not include money and sharing experience with elder or some real expert..

I like to take care of people specially children and babies but do not see myself as a full time social worker or childcare..
I took four siblings as a foster family for 6 months. That was intense!

Obviously I love travelling all around the world...discovering cultures and language. I am interested in linguistic and why some people have so many/few words to describe some things/part of their life... For example in some Scandinavian language there is 6 to 10 times more ways to say "bois" (wood in French) like wood as the material, the place you go for a walk, the thing you use to make a fire,... and the word "snow" in Inuit... let's talk about all of that when we meet :)

ABOUT ME

I am a dynamic person who can be really talkative sometime and also very quiet and relaxed at other moments.
I love scuba diving, Yoga, walking in the forest, listening to the rain hidden in a warm place, listenning to classical music with a warm Chai tea...
But It happens that I go out and dance all night like I would be 16 or listen very loudly to Ramstein (metal music) doing my house cleaning ;)

I cannot stop having interesting discussion about life...What it is for me to be human...my values, my ethics. I like to share point of view about society and what everyone can do to "make it better"
I like to meet new people. I am open minded and always want to learn...

I value a lot knowledge...with humility//
criticism......with positivism//
engagement.....with an open-mind//
truth......with respect of privacy and freedom//
anarchy.......with no violence//
libertarian philosophy....with strong personal ethics//

I try to be aware of things without being a tyran to myself. I do my best to protect wildlife and I stop buying meat and most animal products who are not 'organic' but I am not a full time vegetarian as I love meat/fish/eggs... I try to ride a bike, take trains and hitchike for having a smaller impact (carbon footprint) but I still take some plane... for the moment...

I prefer to put some harder goal evrery now and then...doing things step by step :)

PHILOSOPHY

the important its not the aim of the journey but the journey itself...
Meet people

Learn
Laugh
Feel
Respect
Resist

"Do it your self" The most I can

Temporary Autonomous Zone from Hakim Bay

Les jardins de lumieres de Amine Maalouf

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

i can make visit of many places, we can have a drink, a walk,..
maybe I can host in Bruxelles or in the "Brabant Wallon"...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

In Quebec city an afternoon with two great girls, in lisbon, coimbra, sintra, porto. and i host one guy for few weeks, a girl for few nights and have a drink in Belgium with other cs in Belgium....Great new friends in Morroco, ....In Spain, Singapore, Australia,....

Interests

***Nature and Wildlife***
(very large; from pets to whales, from my garden to yosemite park........)

***Arts*** theater, music, dance, pictures...

***CINEMA*** (I watch many movies a week!)
road-movies/Thriller/Underground/Fantastic
www.bifff.net - festival when I am a volunteer.. I can have some free tickets some time ;)

***MUSIC*** metal:punk:reggae:world:goa:Balkan:latino:Classical...

***FOOD*** Making it :) Eating it :) Learning about it

***Sea/Oceans*** Scuba diving, free diving, sailing, swimming, being close by ...

***MASSAGE*** well...just love to receive one ^_^

• animals
• pets
• wildlife
• fish
• insects
• arts
• theater
• festivals
• dancing
• ethics
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• yoga
• walking
• partying
• drinking
• gardening
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• classical music
• metal music
• cycling
• fishing
• surfing
• scuba diving
• sailing
• swimming
• social work
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies= pulp fiction/night on earth/le grand bleu/
Léon/12monkeys/Fight club/losthighway/Zatoïchi/
BattleRoyale/la soupe aux choux/life of Brian/Moonrise Kingdome/A true story/Adam's apple/Lord of the Rings...

Music= too many/ too different :) some of my "most listened in 2010-2015 period :
Ramstein/dead can dance/Balkan beat box/casey/Calle 13/Prodigy/Deva primal/Cocoon/René Binamé/Leonard Cohen/Adele/Goran Bregovic/Mamut/ Les Slugs/Beticiclopp/Subhumans/Cypress Hill...

Books= Biographies from explorers or scientists, Investigations and "polar",calvin and hobbes, all stephen king'S, political "essai" books,..
Noam Chomsky/Naomi Klein/Alexandra David-Neel/Mike Singleton/Amine Maalouf...

TV Shows///not so much exept Big Bang Theory ^_^/Game of thrones/Vikings/Walking Dead
a bit of Fringe/Homeland/Criminal minds/...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

saw humpback whales in Tadoussac, dancers on Jemma El-Fna place, taking care for six months of four childrens from nine to fourteen because the parents Couldn't for this time, was on the top of the twin tour in New york in April 2001, tasted insects at friend's party,Walked the amazing path of the natural reserve of "Guimares" near Porto, tasted very good portos in Porto, see kangaroos and koalas, surfing in Midleton Australia......

Teach, Learn, Share

TAKE NOTHING BUT PHOTOS

LEAVE NOTHING BUT FOOTPRINTS

BREAK NOTHING BUT THE SILENCE

KILL NOTHING BUT TIME

What I Can Share with Hosts

a lot :) I hope!

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, Canada

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