CURRENT MISSION get a degree in Psychology ABOUT ME Just returning to Couchsurfing after many years spent away A lot has happenned since then Among other things, I changed my first name and my pronouns are now she/her ;) It feels great to be back! I'm now working as a cook and manager for a vegan catering company i've created with some friends a few years back Also doing some trans rights activism PHILOSOPHY "I began by seeing how man was formed by circumstances-and what are circumstances?-but touchstones of his heart-? and what are touchstones? but proovings of his heart? and what are proovings of his heart but fortifiers or alterers of his nature? and what is his altered nature but his Soul?-and what was his Soul before it came into the world and had these provings and alterations and perfectionings?-An intelligence-without Identity-and how is this Identity to be made? Through the medium of the Heart? And how is the heart to become this Medium but in a world of Circumstances?" John Keats, 1819
Intéressé(e) par Féminisme
Courant en Allemand
En train d'apprendre Allemand
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Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I like hosting people, cooking with them and sharing recipies from far away, and mostly the unexpected things which always tend to happen which foreigners. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I've hosted many people while in Berlin, had some really nice experiences, mostly with those which stayed more than a few days and had part of themselves to share.
Musique, films et livres
The Lord of the Rings La horde du contrevent L'avalée des avalés Virginia Woolf Les chants de Maldoror Stéphane Mallarmé Dancer in the dark Le souffle au coeur Belle de jour Le voyage de Chihiro Derzou Ouzala Godspeed you! Black Emperor The Velvet Undergound Die Winterreise Naomi Klein - Doppelganger
Une chose incroyable que j'ai faite
Swam in the volcanic crater lake of Mount Nemrut in eastern Turkey (and almost drank its water after a day of sweaty and dehydratated hiking!). Traveled 1000km by bike in southern france. Gender transition
Enseigner, apprendre, partager
I suppose I'm a maths teacher although I tend not too say it too loudly.
Ce que je peux offrir à mes hôtes
recipes for sure stories about activism and queer culture political discussions mindfulness and my true presence
Mes centres d'intérêt
Let me try to describe interests in a kind of 'biographical order', it will perhaps be easier! The first two interests to appear when I was young were probably reading, at that time especially chivalry novels and detective and adventure stories (Alexandre Dumas, Michel Zévaco, Maurice Leblanc, Jules Verne, etc.) and hiking (Nature, Auvergne, horse-riding, etc.). Then I turned into a geek and learned programming, started reading a lot of science-fiction and fantasy (C++, Java, Perl, Tolkien, Asimov, Bordage, Simmons, etc). A bit later I started watching movies and I became a bit addicted to it at times, especially Korean and japanese films (Miyazaki, Bonh Joon Ho, Kurosawa, etc.) Since I started to have some freedom then I also started traveling a bit (Ireland, Scotland, India, Turkey, Canada, USA, etc.) When I got my own kitchen I somehow got interested in cooking (Palak Paneer, Pom-pom quiche, mushrooms, Nems, cheese, etc.) Then I landed into a scientific life and became interested in non-equilibrium statistical physics (Boltzmann, Maxwell, Jaynes, Kolmogorov, Kraichnan, etc.). Around the same time I started trying to get a political conscience (which isn't quite there yet), so I turned to ideas on ecology, anarchy, and that kind of stuff (Naomi Klein, Michael Albert, Ester Duflo, Alain Damasio, etc.) Oh and at some point I started doing amateur theatre (Dürenmatt, Berkhoff, Molière, Jarry, etc.) Then I moved to Berlin and there was suddently many people trying to live differently (foodcoops, associative bars, associations, etc.)