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Overview

  • 13 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German; learning Chinese (Simplified), Malagasy, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Radio journalist
  • Journalism & international relations
  • From Valbonne, France
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Being curious about everything, having a lot of great adventures and a positiv impact on earth.

ABOUT ME

I'm a quarter french, a quarter spanish, a quarter german and a quater polish :) I am nice, funny and I enjoy the company of uncomon and bizare people :)

I am journalist because I am curious. I love people and discovering new worlds through them. I was a greenpeace activist in Germany, Canada and Brazil. I still write a lot about the environment, am vegetarian and try to degrow but I won't juge anyone who doesn't do so.

I keep many aspects of the lifestyle of my village in the south of France :) happiness, calm but passionned but also lazyness and belateness... ;)

PHILOSOPHY

Live Life in the way that your Friends will be bored when you're no more there (it sounds better in German...)
and I want to fight for a better world! (like almost every couchsurfer lol)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Me and my nice roomates (Johannes, Germany, Etienne and Hugo from France) use to host a lost of people on couchsurfing and really enjoyed it. Now I am living here and there by myself so I became mostly the person to host :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We always met so nice couchsurfers / friends and had the craziest travel experiences everywhere thanks to couchsurfing. Vodka-Breakfast in Slovakia, Board-game-passion-night in Austria, the biggest and best food buffet of all in Jordan, we discovered the reality of war in Palestin, had the chance to meet a mushroom-picking-Rom-community in Romania, lived the Egyptian revolution from the inside at a doctors place, I met the best group of frieng in Jakarta, had an olive-oil-spray-ratatouille-experiment in Beverly Hills, and so many other ! When I think of it, couchsurfing has made me want to be more and more curious and become journalist.

Interests

Ecology, psychology, botany, astronomy, hicking and hitchhicking but also dancing, karaoke, games, travels, nature, guitar, being chilldish and ENJOYING EVERY SECOND OF LIFE...

  • arts
  • culture
  • books
  • dancing
  • capoeira
  • cooking
  • partying
  • drinking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • biology
  • ecology
  • history
  • tourism
  • hitchhiking
  • beaches
  • hicking
  • botany
  • stars watching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: reggae, 60' 70', Legends, and I must confess listening to stupid mainstream radio music makes me way too happy.
Books: Into the Wild, Eckart Tolle "The power of now", "Le comte de Monte Cristo" A. Dumas, "Les sentiments du Prince Charles", "Comment tout peut s'effondrer", "Un bel Australien"^^
Movies: Ace Ventura 1, le tour du monde en 80 jours (1956)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Everyone of my trips were Amazing!

Amsterdam was amazing! We hitchicked there from Nice in 24 hours with a sleepingbag and slept under a brigde in the Harbor!

I also slep in a Ground of a Market in Slovenia (until 5 AM... )

I also stayed on a Roof of a wood shop with 5 other Greenpeace members to force the Keeper no more to sell illegal wood! It was crazy!! The cops wanted us to go away but we stayed and after 1h30 had what we wanted!

Hitchhiking from Munich to Istanbul, from Nice to Barcelona, from Nice to Portugal, ... :)

I lived one month in the Forest with Friends (but we had what to eat and were to wash) It was a wonderfull experience!

I did Elastic Jump :) (I want to do it again!)

I went drunk on the top of a cran :)

We took part to the Egyptian Revolution! I also was totally alone in the Keops pyramid because they were no tourist.

We slept into the tunesian desert. Spent 5 days on a boat on the amazonas trying to go to the deepest place we could in the forest. I went 3 times to Vegas (don't ask). I hitchhicked along the St Laurent river in Québec and fell in love with the landscapes, I had the best Mojito-Mojo-Parties in Madagascar, went to Borneo to see the forest (and the delphins!), swam in a rooftop-swimming pool with an amazing view of Colombo during the biggest thunderstorm (don't do that^^).

We stayed 6 hours being interrogated at the israeli border (having in the bag a lot of arab papers, a travel guide to north korea and telling them we want to couchsurf in Palestina). There we sang freedom songs :) I still love israelis don't worry :)

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Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you some italian and french cooking, also a lot of deserts! I can teach you the name of the stars and constellations, show you some plants you can eat, teach you german and tell you a lot, probably way to much, about the environment. I can also teach you how to make a radio podcast^^
I try to learn guitar and ukulele... but I could'nt really teach it... better to learn it from you ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

We can watch the Voice :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Madagascar, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Indonesia, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Tunisia

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