CURRENT MISSION Continuous curiosity about life, cultures, people I meet everyday ABOUT ME I'm interested in environmental and minority tribes issues, ethnology, ornithology, archeology, flora, gardening, cooking, painting, sculpture, music, photography, etc... I speak French, Vietnamese, English, a bit German and a little Chinese, I'm learning Spanish and Italian, I remember some Latin vocabulary too. PHILOSOPHY The Buddhist and Taoist philosophies remind us that we all are multiple parts of the One, so let's be friendly to each other and avoid to hurt any animal or vegetal or mineral being.
Interested in Animals
Interested in Blues
Fluent in English
Learning Chinese (Simplified)
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I help as much as I can and I get helped. Thanks to the universe ! COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I always ask to meet nice people on my way everywhere and I did meet wonderful CS hosts !
Music, Movies, and Books
I'm fond of songs from Georges Brassens, Jacques Brel, Charles Trenet, Claude Nougaro, Françoise Hardy, Serge Gainsbourg, Simon & Garfunkel, the Beatles, Ray Charles, jazz singers, etc... I like very much Woodkid's song "I love you". The kind of movies I appreciate : Mary & Max, Gasland, Tex Avery's shorts, Droopy. Some of the books I adore : The Little Prince from Antoine de St Exupéry, Marcel Pagnol's novels, French poems from Jacques Prévert.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Going up the high mountains in Ladakh where the oxygen is rare and meeting nice Ladakhi people overthere. Riding a camel in the Rajasthan desert under the moonlight. Enjoying the authentic Ibiza in springtime when tourists are very few. Snorkeling in La Réunion's lagoons among colourful fishes.
Teach, Learn, Share
Let's share tai chi, qi gong, gardening, shiatsu massage, speaking different languages.
What I Can Share With Hosts
My life and travel experiences, my little knowledges.
My Interests
Yoga, tai chi, qi gong, gardening, reading, cinema (French & American movies from the forties to the sixties as The Night of the Hunter, The Shop around the Corner, The Big Sky, The River of no return, The Kid, etc., some more recent movies too), theater, music (jazz, blues, ethnic), esoteric issues, environmental issues, use energy for healing.