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  • 723 references 646 Confirmed & Positive
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  • Fluent in English, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Oriya; learning Bengali, Bangla, German, Italian, Spanish
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Traveller
  • Human Rights
  • From Champigny-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I will be coming home for a short stint and I CAN ONLY HOST in APRIL for now more specifically on the 1st and then from 6th to the 22nd and :). Excited to host again after couchsurfing extensively for the last 2 years.

Visit all the countries in the World! Change the World one couch at a time ;)

Ma vie en 10 mots: Danse, Voyage, Bleu, Glace, Droit de l'homme,LGBT, Couchsurfing, Animation, Harry Potter, Playa!!!

PHILOSOPHY

Live and let Live.

"Live the life you love and love the life you live."
- Bob Marley

Keep smiling cause you never know who is falling in love with your smile.

"Dance as if no one is watching"

Behave with the others the way you want them to behave with you.

I SCREAM You SCREAM, We all SCREAM for ICE CREAM!!!

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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

"We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us" Anonymous

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever"

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move" Robert Louis Stevenson

"Not all those who wander are lost" J.R.R Tolkien

"A day without laughter is a day wasted" Charlie Chaplin

"Smile and the world will smile back to you"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couchsurfed All over Europe, Oceania, North Africa, North Central and South America and Asia. And am hosting since september 2010. GREAT EXPERIENCE!:D

Interests

Dancing is my passion I cannot live without it
Reading,Human rights,
Eating ice cream anywhere at any time in any temperature
Getting wet in the rain even in England,
TRAVELLING If I could I would do it all the time, every penny I earn goes into travelling, If globetrotting could be a profession I would be the best at it ;) as most of you I am sure
Animation avec les enfants
Fanatical about Blue :D

Music, Movies, and Books

Harry Potter hell yeah whenever I don't have a book in mind I just reread the whole series must have done it a good 20 times!Huge fan! Anything magical and I love it.
Frequency, Into the Wild,
Florence + the machine, Ed Sheeran, Celine Dion, the Score, Imagine dragons, BTS.
Friends whenever I am sad or unhappy one episode always puts me back in a good mood, never get tired of it.
Lost in Space

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

France, Paris: Sparkling Eiffel tower, seen it so many time but never get tired of it, Le Louvre: Paca: Calanque, Gorge du Verdon; Corsica: the whole island: Bretagne: the whole coast.
Australia: Red Center: Uluru + Kings Canyon, Whitsunday islands, Western Australia some of the most beautiful beaches and crazy fauna encounter, Living in Melbourne
UK: Stonehenge, Sheffield + Nottingham best uni years of my life, Blackpool bindiving
India: Taj Mahal, Auroville: Matrimandir Bombay: Naturals (the best ice cream in the whole wide world)
New Zealand: The scenery everywhere, Tongariro crossing, real fruit ice cream
Italy: Rome: the churches, every town, village, the food, the ice cream: Sardinia: Golfo di Orosei water of every shade of blue imaginable
USA: Washington DC The Lincoln memorial, Vegas: Bling bling, Florida: Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Canada: The rockies: Banf + Jasper, Living in Montreal
Russia, Saint Petersbourg: Church of the Savior on the Blood and Saint Isaac's Cathedral, Hermitage
Ireland: the people, the scenery, the music, the beers, the shamrock, the leprechaun, this country is enchanting
Croatia: Dubrovnik
Maroc: Chefchouan, the blue city
Egypt: The Pyramids, Abou Simbel, Dahab
Brasil: Iguazu Falls, Lencois Maharenses National park
Argentina: Devils Gorge, Purmamarca, Quebrada de las Conchas, Patagonia
Bolivia: Laguna Colorado
Perou: Machu Pichu, Laguna 69
Indonesia: Gilis, Padar island viewpoint
Phillippines: Rice terraces
Iceland: the New Zealand of Europe
Samoa: Turquoise blue water, pristine polynesian culture
Nouvelle Caledonie: Ouvea
Iran: Hormuz + Isfahan Islamic art
Hungary: Budapest the parliament
Norway: Lofoten islands + the fjords
Pakistan: Gilgit-Baltistan
Saudi Arabia: Al Ula
Jordan: Petra
South Georgia: Sea of King Penguins
Ecuador: Galapagos
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Mayreau + Tobago Cays

Teach, Learn, Share

Free progress; I studied in a school which didn't have marks nor exams, we could choose our teachers and subjects and the number of hours we wanted to study, dance drama, music, sports everything was included.

I would love to learn new languages especially Italian and Spanish at the moment and any type of dance.
I have been dancing indian classical dance, odissi since the age of 6. I have done many different styles Bharata Natyam, Kathak, Garba, Raas, Bollywood, Salsa, Hip hop, Swing...

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Estonia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niue, Northern Ireland, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Scotland, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Viet Nam, Wales, Wallis and Futuna, Åland Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, France, India, New Zealand, United Kingdom

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