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BOwM LiBRa.ROcH

Current Mission: "SenSing ZeN ... "

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Meet for coffee or drink Not verified Vouched for6

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China
Yunnan
Kunming
Lat: 25.03889, Lon: 102.71833
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General Information

BOwM LiBRa.ROcH has been vouched for
Couch availableCoffee or a drink
CouchSurf requests replied to100%
member sinceOctober 31st, 2005
profile views3411
age35
genderMale
membernameBOwM
occupationLearNing, HEALing from TEAching ...
educationGR8 teaCHers. BOwM. VAGa bON Dire ~
grew up inborn in SherBrOOKe, & grew up by jumPing ...yoYO
ethnicityWarRiOR of shades
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Languages

  • French
  • EnglishIntermediate
  • SpanishBeginner
  • UkrainianBeginner
  • Sign Language - IntlIntermediate
  • Esperanto
  • Chinese (Mandarin)Beginner
  • Creole

Groups I Belong To

Shenzhen 92:383
Why: will be passing by
China 4953:1930
Why: wanna live there for at least a year
Hangzhou 61:66
Why: thAnking of Hangzhou
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Couch Available: Coffee or a drink
Preferred Gender: Any

Well, I haven't a SOFa or a CaRaVAn to offer yet other than what is in my heARt and in my surPRise BaG but stay all SOFt ... Since new MilLeNiuM, I have bEen wRiTting giVing abRoad with organiZations, ho! oh! sHOes & wHEels, amiEs & lots of simplicity ... .

OR a "PeACE of lands" in BEliZe to a plAce cAll MORe ToMOrROW, it iS bY RiO BeLize inBEtWEen BELize City to SAn IgnAciO .. BE WELl cOMe, ! yOU could pinCH yOUr tent @t More TOMoRrow, just aSK for RockEy 90 * bal BoWM *~*~*~ and through your sEeds ideas..

Friends (49)

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PictureSavanah
45, Female
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Friends since December 2007
"met through spirituality meet up group"
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
Met in person  
PictureAmy Torgunrud
27, Female
Revelstoke, British Columbia
Canada
Friends since July 2005
"Traveled to Ukraine and worked in a little room together"
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person   Hosted1  
PictureBlaine Pengelly
25, Male
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
Friends since July 2006
"Roch was the one who really got me onto the idea of couch surfing. I consider him my first surfer."
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person   Hosted2  
PictureIleana Vaca
29, Female
Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
Mexico
Friends since January 2007
"By CouchSurfing"
Friendship Type: 5 - Good Friend
Met in person   Hosted2  
PictureMarco Antonio Lara Sánchez
41, Male
Veracruz, Veracruz
Mexico
Friends since January 2007
"El me llamó por teléfono estando en Veracruz para solicitarme hospedaje, por supuesto que se lo dí."
Friendship Type: 7 - Best Friend
Met in person   Hosted3   Surfed3  
PictureAndrew and Sarah Murray
29, Several people
Nelson, British Columbia
Canada
Friends since July 2007
"Roch stayed at my house for a bit"
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
Met in person   Hosted4  
PictureJoshua Greenberg
20, Male
Lillooet, British Columbia
Canada
Friends since July 2007
"ROch blessed us with his presence and occupied our couch for a night."
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
Met in person   Hosted1  
PictureOleksiy Statsenko
33, Male
Prague, Praha
Czech Republic
Friends since November 2005
"Roch is great! Told me marvelousstories about his travels!!! Take care, man!! We see each other in some part of the world!!!"
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person   Hosted4  
PictureEMILY YOYO
22, Female
Lijiang, Yunnan
China
Friends since August 2008
"i was host him in shanggri_la "
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person   Hosted3  
PictureEric Muth
25, Male
Belgrade,
Serbia
Friends since August 2004
"He dropped by 3 times now, great guy"
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
Met in person   Hosted5  
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BOwM LiBRa.ROcH
eToiLAraiGneR ** AmoRaiSinG!
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Personal Description

I AM on the road ...~*~

vivE vie VivE ViA vive viva viDA

L'ALlTerReNatiVe ~~ cOMmUNiQuE ~~ SyNeRgiA !. ..

FiNd waYs tO : eXpREsS the DeEpNest ; iN aLL fORmS

How I Participate in CS2

... DOing, GOing, ShaRinG and BeLOVinG !

CouchSurfing Experience

ART in lOving for 2 years in PARis and have welComeD so manies traveLlers preVious of CS,. hospitalityClub, or SERVas... There was allWAyS, conversations, parties, travelling & fun to be togetHer with new COMers in ligths city ...

Interests

fUN, ExChange everyThings, CiNEmas, JOURNAling, TRAVelling, MAGisK, eleVadoOrs, ...

Philosophy

LeaVing in LoVing in LiVing in lEARning in LoOPing ~ What i am thinking about, I am ThAnKinG abOut and I am bridging - BRiNGiNG ABout ..~ ! DO you FEeL it, GOOd?

Music, Movies, Books

The Divine Bell and the butterFly!..., Albert Camus, Paul Auster, Richard Bach, Aleister Crowley, Edgar Cayce, Jung, Gurdjieff, Shambhala, Roman Polanski, Claude Jutra, Francois Truffaut, Gilles Groulx, Leonard Forest, Don Miguel Ruiz, Felix, Jean Leclerc, Leloup, Daniel Boucher, Bélanger, Claude Dubois, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Robert Charlebois, Les Colocs, Boule Noire, BV3 ...

VaRiTies of fiLMs, rhythms, poetries that explore
MinD & POSsiBilitiEs. .. ...

Types of People I enjoy

CreACtive people, good EneRgiA, taTOO, WilD ANimaL, AUTHenTicS Presence, tHe ONE WhO LoVE FALLing in ~> ...

Teach, Learn, Share

PROFilE * Pile ou FACe ? C.V. @ Vis !

pLAY wiTh wORds, enJOy, ha hA Ha... AlPHaBetA .A..Z ... ZiG, ZeBRa, ZaG, ZeN, ZoO_M, inTiMEout, ZORrO, ZerO, ZeBra, ZeSt, Zeal, ZeUS, ZiJi, ZZZzZZzz... ZOeA... AAa@Aaaa. AtChouuuuuM !

One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done

MoRrocCO ..) MaROC!

BrEATh aS a SheEP UnDeRwATeR ;)

BeDo BEdobeDObedoBEdo do BE doDO be BEe DOoo!

Opinion on the CouchSurfing.com Project

WOw O nOW! MorE to DisCOveR .. OUT your surPrise bOX. SUGgestions too www.. northshorecompass.com, giftsfilms.com, torTUga.com, giftsfilms.com, artfifa.com, hospitalityClub.org, lePouceux.com, cwy-jcm.org, cj.qc.ca, ...

Locations Traveled

TRAVELED: Andorra, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Jamaica, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, The Bahamas, United States, Vatican City
LIVED: Belize, Canada, Cuba, Estonia, France, Guatemala, Mexico, Turkey, Ukraine
WANTS TO GO: China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam
IS GOING TO: Canada

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From XiaoLi Liu
 Chengdu, China
 Aug 23
Met in person Good Friend, Traveled 1 days 
Positive

Bown is a cool guy.i'm amazed at his 7 years travelling,and his crazy movie!hope to meet u again at YunNan the next year:)

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From EMILY YOYO
 Lijiang, China
 Aug 11
Met in person Friend, Hosted 3 days  

很高兴我又多了一个熊猫朋友
他是个简单可爱人
我们在香格里拉的最爱东北饺子* _ *
我想我们会成为好朋友的
加油
我们要活的好好的
像熊猫一样@ v @
加油

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From TIGGERTIGER1
 Lijiang, China
 Aug 11
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 4 days  
Positive

Roch is an interesting character. A bit of an enigma: a vagabound yet very housetrained; a rolling stone who gathers moss; a constant traveller who is both lost and found. Hope you find what you are looking for . . .

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From Erin Grumbach
 Vancouver, Canada
 Apr 20
Met in person Friend, Hosted 3 days  
Positive

Over the past couple of years Roch and I have morphed our couch host/surfer relationship to friendship.
He's always been a very considerate guest; tidy, friendly, unimposing. He's also trustworthy, and trusting, having left me his car for a couple weeks while he was at film school. Granted I didn't drive it except to pick him up at the ferry! It was a bit of a scary contraption. ;-)
Roch has a wonderful sense of humour and I really enjoy spending time with him. I'm going to miss him while he's in China!
I'd recommend him as a couchsurfer, a host, and a friend. He's a wonderful guy!

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From DOVE1
 New Westminster, Canada
 Apr 10
Met in person Good Friend,  
Positive

He is a very cool guy and we share a bunch of similiar spiritual/creative interests. I think he's in Asia now and hopefully having a great time!
Safe Journies Roch and keep taking pics and writing about your experiences, eh? '=^j

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From Tak .
 Kobe, Japan
 Apr 7
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Oh, this crazily friendly guy's friendliness is amazing! I searched his face at my friend list in my brain upon first greeting, as if I met him before.
It's shame we sat on the opposite side of a huge chinese table and couldn't talk much!

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From JILIHERBS
 Bellingham, United States
 Apr 6
Met in person Good Friend,  
Positive

I met Roch in a cafe in Kunming China. I can tell he is a traveller with a kind heart. Plus he is on couchsurfing too!

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From Savanah
 Vancouver, Canada
 Feb 29
Met in person Good Friend,  
Positive

Great guy, somewhat shy but open to new experiences.

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From Rob Hines
 Prospect, Canada
 Feb 3
Met in person  
Positive

Eau la, eau la, eau la. Roch is wonderful, couch surfed with this vagabond in Vancouver at Luke Warmwaters place. Hardly noticed that we shared a small place. We both live here now and see each other occasionally.

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From THINKINGMEAT
 Vancouver, Canada
 Nov 1, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 3 days  
Positive

Hope you didn't leave yet.

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From GmU
 Calgary, Canada
 Oct 15, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  

03NOV06

What was to be a night's stay on my couch turned into barely an hour's visit. And then there was...THE ASSAULT! My cat Mito is a bad, bad cat. Baaad Kitty! He is responsible for possibly the shortest surfing/hosting experience EVER. Nevertheless, in that sliver of time, my potential Coucher made a decent impression. I would be open to "host" him "again" should The Cat be away at a boot camp, or jail. Or the cat-nuthouse!

Roch, je suis très, très désolé. Retournez s'il vous plaît autrefois quand Le Chat a lieu en vacances. Je pense qu'il est malade dans la tête.

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From Ken Tomilson
 Vancouver, Canada
 Oct 14, 2007
Met in person Good Friend, Hosted 10 days  
Positive

Roch is imaginative, creative and positive. He is considerate and loves to laugh and have fun. A great guest to have around, even for a longer period.

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From Sharia Willis Saenz
 Vancouver, Canada
 Sep 29, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 1 days  
Positive

Roch was my first Couch Surfer on Sept 28th 2007 . He came to my house and I was cooking dinner but realized that I didnt have a few ingrediants to finish cooking ... SO we crazy kids invaded safeway and came home and ate THANKS FOR THE RIDE !!!!!... We shared great conversation about travel and now roch wants to run away again as I gave him the travel bug and he wants to go on more vacations because I was looking at pic's that made him nostalgic for travel SORRY ROCH maybe I can join you want to come with me to Brazil??? GOOD LUCK for asia im sure you will have alot of fun where ever you go .... i wanna hear the story of the 3 pigs and the baboon that he told me that the little kids in Belize asked him to tell sounds interesting!!!!! GOOD LUCK on all your travels and welcome to Vancouver have fun at the VIFF.org

~*~*SHARIA*~*~

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From Yan Levasseur
 Montreal, Canada
 Sep 2, 2007
Only met online CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Roch and I seem like we have much in common. Interests, a happy face and the will to pursue our dreams. Hope to have the chance to have a real chat with you sometime !

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From Joshua Greenberg
 Lillooet, Canada
 Jul 31, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 1 days  
Positive

ROch was a wondeful traveller to have as my first couchsurfer. He showed us indie films he made, we went to the Nelson Weekend market together and learned how to play the Jambays. Would be priveleged to have him again and hope nothing but the best for him.

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From Andrew and Sarah Murray
 Nelson, Canada
 Jul 14, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 4 days  
Positive

Roch was and excellent guest. Very polite and entertaining.

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From Myriam St-Denis Lisée
 Montreal, Canada
 Jun 6, 2007
Met in person Friend, Hosted 2 days  
Positive

Roch est une personne très ouverte, sans vraiment de sujets tabous, et très ouvert également à faire diverses activités. J'ai eu beaucoup de plaisir en sa compagnie :) Un vrai écrivain dans l'âme!

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From Rafael Rodriguez Chuc
 Merida, Mexico
 Apr 8, 2007
Met in person Good Friend, Hosted 5 days Surfed 5 days  
Positive

ha sido muy grato conocerle pues es una persona que siempre es positiva,que es maestro y alumno al mismo tiempo
tengo muy buyn tiempo con el ,definitavamente fue positivo

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From Alejandro Lopez G
 Mexico, Mexico
 Mar 16, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 2 days  
Positive

Roch surfed my couch. We got 2 good days, talking about all the places he's travelled to. Je espère te trouver une autre fois Rock!

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From Kadi Diop
 Montreal, Canada
 Mar 14, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 6 days  
Positive

Roch was a good surfer, very kind and polite. It was cool having him as a surfer! Bonne chance dans tes voyages et a bientot!

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From Julien Rastouil
 Paris, France
 Mar 12, 2007
Met in person Friend, Surfed 3 days  
Positive

I met Roch in Mexico thanks to a common couchsurfing friend.
This guy is a real traveler, passionate, and un poco loco.
Success for your trip in Asia, See you somewhere else in the world.

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From DRFEELAWESOME
 San Ignacio, Belize
 Feb 13, 2007
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 3 days  
Positive

Cool dude to hang out with!

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From Marco Antonio Lara Sánchez
 Veracruz, Mexico
 Feb 12, 2007
Met in person Best Friend, Hosted 3 days Surfed 3 days  
Positive

Roch es un tipo con un carisma enorme, disfruta de lo que la vida le ofrece. Le encantó el café lechero de la parroquia y escuchar musica de putumayo records.

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From Ileana Vaca
 Aguascalientes, Mexico
 Jan 16, 2007
Met in person Good Friend, Hosted 2 days  
Positive

Bowm is a great man. I'm so happy to know him. My best wishes to him :-)
I hope see him again.

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From ARTLITE
 Warsaw, Poland
 Jan 10, 2007
Met in person Friend,  
Positive

I'd say, even under oath, that Roch is a good and low-maintance guest! Roch surfed my coach for 5 nights in early December. We had some deep, personal conversations and he's definately one of the people this site was created for. He's a drifter, much of a professional - if you ask i'm sure he's gonna grace you with the stories about traveling in a van throughout South America. Pretty challenging, huh?! You never have to clean after him and i'd consider him as someone credible and easy-to-cope with. Cheers maete!

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From Eric Muth
 Belgrade, Serbia
 Jan 8, 2007
Met in person Friend, Hosted 5 days  
Positive

Great guy, a little shy, but fun man to have pass on by. Good ideas. Fun fun.

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From Dan Van Geest
 Waterloo, Canada
 Nov 9, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 3 days  
Positive

Roch is a very interesting guy. He was just passing through Kitchener on his way out west and was very friendly with interesting stories. He also brought some tasty canned duck!

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From Balazs Kovacs
 Budapest, Hungary
 Oct 13, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend,  
Positive

Roch is an inspiring person. I think that's one of the biggest compliments I can come up with. He is sensitive, intelligent, thoughtful.

I enjoyed my chat with him tremendously.

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From Amy Torgunrud
 Revelstoke, Canada
 Oct 7, 2006
Met in person Friend, Hosted 1 days  
Positive

Roch is super original and enjoyable person who seems to thrive on moving about. We were in a group that did volunteer work in Ukraine. I met him again in Poland and he stopped in at my place in Revelstoke while travelling around the country.

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From Mia Park
 Chicago, United States
 Sep 12, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Surfed 4 days  

great guy! wish i could speak french.

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From Oleksiy Statsenko
 Prague, Czech Republic
 Sep 11, 2006
Met in person Friend, Hosted 4 days  
Positive

Roch is great! Told me marvelousstories about his travels!!! Take care, man!! We see each other in some part of the world!!!

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From Blaine Pengelly
 Halifax, Canada
 Aug 16, 2006
Met in person Friend, Hosted 2 days  
Positive

Roch was great to share with. I really enjoyed hosting him and hearing his stories. He really opened me to the idea of couch surfing and meeting people this way. This is definetly a positive step towards peace and understanding between people.

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From Sandra Sherlow-Platt
 Victoria, Canada
 Aug 1, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 1 days  
Positive

Roch is so well travelled!He's been to so many places I've yet to dream of going, and I'm sure he'll go to many more. He left unscathed by our 3 cats, for which I am very glad!

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From Kip and Karen/ Luce and Comer
 Saskatoon, Canada
 Jul 28, 2006
Met in person CouchSurfing Friend, Hosted 2 days  
Positive

Roch surfed our couch. Happy trails buddy.

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