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Overview

  • 61 references 36 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew (modern), Russian
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • living
  • Master of IT Consuling and management
  • From Maubeuge, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie, France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Share, love, learn...live.

ABOUT ME

Don't know what to say..let others do it through references :)

PHILOSOPHY

"The smiles that you give always come back to you"
Indian Proverb

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” - St. Augustine

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu

"Le vrai voyage, c'est d'y aller. Une fois arrivé, le voyage est fini. Aujourd'hui les gens commencent par la fin."

"Try not to become a man of success
but rather to become a man of value."
ALBERT EINSTEIN

"don't tell me how well you're educated, just tell me where and how you travelled "

I want my life to be an eternal learning process

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

After having enjoyed hosting some people in Paris, enjoy surfing couches, attend to meetings and spread the word to all the nice people that I meet and who are not on CS.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As you can see with the references, I hosted and was hosted a couple of ( great) times..plus attended meetings, post on some groups and spread the CS word around.

Interests

_learning
_meeting different people
_laughing
_giving so receiving
_reading
_spending time with children, play, sing, dance and enjoy their authencity
_nature, wildness and authenticity
_sports : basket-ball, windsurfing, trekking, diving and many others in a "leisure" way
_history of : my country, the world, unknown tribes, places I'll visit, places I'll never know

  • books
  • poetry
  • singing
  • dancing
  • tango
  • cooking
  • traveling
  • magic
  • windsurfing
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • sailing

Music, Movies, and Books

_music : reggae/regga, chanson francaise, jazz, etc..

_movies : historic and war, love and romantic ones; if I had to choose two they would be Gladiator and Moulin rouge; recently saw and enjoyed Red Cliff, can't wait to see the second one !

_reading : passionate of reading, I read everything from novells to history books and travel guides. I'm also fond of poetry, especially french one, the only language that I can fully appreciate.
If I had to pick up some books, these would be ( keeping in the title the language in which I read them) :
Belle du Seigneur, d'Albert Cohen
Lettres a un jeune poete, de Rainer Maria Rilke
Le Cid, de Corneille
Une petite robe de fete, de Christian Bobin
Le Comte de Monte-Christo, d'Alexandre Dumas
Churchill memories
Cent ans de solitude, de Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Le vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour, de Jose Luis Sepulveda

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Life amazes me everyday

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share : french language, informatics tips, some magic tricks, french cooking, songs and poems,a lot of french child songs, few walks of tango and my enthusiasm :)
I'd like to learn : russian, chinese, few walks of any dances, cooking; and everything that comes from the heart of others

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cuba, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Philippines

Old School Badges

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