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  • 39 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Malagasy, Spanish
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Social entrepreneurship
  • Political Science & Social Business
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Be a better version of myself! Eat, Explore and Love

ABOUT ME

We're all mixes of the persons we've met + the experiences we've had + the places we've lived in.
So, I was born and raised in Antananarivo, and grew up between Tana, Madrid and Paris. During my studies I lived in South Africa, Australia and Ethiopia. After working in Sudan and France, I just came back to Antananarivo. For now :)

I love sharing life stories; trying and tasting new stuff -especially new food; learning more exciting things ; serious conversations... although I'm more into playing =)
Ginger and cinammon, tchaïs and coffees (the place and the smell, not the beverage), music&books-swapping and long e-mails make me incredibly happy.

PHILOSOPHY

The world is a buffet, let's not eat only one dish.

True food of human soul : love and connection to a larger purpose.

Wherever you are, it is your friends who make your world. And at the end of the day, what do matter is the people around you and the moments you shared with them.

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. But it always robs today of its joy!", Leo Buscaglia

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host people everytime I can and I make sure everybody around me knows about CS.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Had my first CSer from Hong-Kong in France, in 2008. In 2009, I CSurfed for the first time in Addis Ababa, and after that I became a CS-addict.
I hosted CSers
- in Addis-Ababa (from Australia, Austria, USA, Israel, France, Germany, UK),
- in Khartoum (from Spain and France),
- in Antananarivo (from Turkey, France, Germany, Czech Republic and La Réunion),
- in Lyon (from Australia, Canada, France),
+ I had great hosts in Ethiopia, Romania, Italy and in London.

Interests

Love-stories. Feminism. People-watching. Coffee-shops with books. Reading. Veganism. History. Africa. Politics. Artsy stuff. Dancing. Yoga. Cooking. Rollers. Table-soccer. Beach volley. Almost anything outdoors: camping, biking, being around anything watery.

  • books
  • photography
  • diy
  • dancing
  • womens rights
  • dining
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • coffee
  • vegetarian
  • vegan
  • yoga
  • politics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • cycling
  • soccer
  • history
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

For dancing purposes: anything with a clap rhythm. I love south-african house and nigerian tunes. And at the moment: P-Square, Mafikizolo, D'Banj, Gyptian, Davido,...

Mellowy music: soul and neo-soul, especially sultry female voices.
I love: Oum, Irma, Nneka, Ayo, Nina Simone, Mayra Andrade, Lianne La Havas, John Legend, Alicia Keys, Ed Sheeran, Jason Mraz,...

Movie: Kusturica "Underground". I like independant/activist movies and I love documentaries (the last one I've seen is The Cove)

Books:
-A thousand splendid suns, Khaled Hosseini
-What is the What, Valentino Achak Deng
-Eating animals, Jonathan Safran Foer
I love Yasmina Khadra, Garcia Marquez and Amin Maalouf. And Mafalda!

Series: You're the Worst, Blackish, 13 reasons why, Orphan Black, Damages, Borgen, The Americans, Scandal, Masters of Sex, Orange Is The New Black, New Girl, Girls, How to get away with murder, Modern Family,...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Was touring Romania with Andreea, sleeping in her car. We got lost in the middle of the night in the middle of a dark foggy swamp in Vadu, looking for the Danube Delta. We stopped the car and slept. And woke up by the beautiful Black Sea, surrounded by GIANT mosquitoes.

Teach, Learn, Share

I badly want to learn photography, lindy-hop, yoga, and kizomba ; Swahili, Portuguese and Italian; new games (but also old ones like Go); new vegan recipes, new philosophies and kitesurf. I want to learn about stars, I want to be more creative, learn more DIY stuff, and plant more.


I can help with Malagasy, French and Spanish and share my vegetarian/vegan recipes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Fiji, Guadeloupe, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Saint Lucia, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Ethiopia, France, Madagascar, South Africa, Spain, Sudan

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