CURRENT MISSION

Discovering new worlds and people

ABOUT ME

I am a forever student who love to learn from different countries and cultures. My family is from northern France but I have been living in Canada, Scotland and Switerland over the past few years and hope to keep moving to other countries in the future. I love the experience of starting everything over again and again in different places, making new friends (of course I keep all the previous ones!) learning how other people live, discovering all these little things that make us different or similar to each other.

At the moment, I am a planetary researcher. I have been working on research projects in Earth and planetary sciences and remote sensing, using satellite and spacecraft images to study the Nasca pampa in Peru, the geology of the Moon, or currently as part of a PhD project, the surface of Mars. I am (finally!) about to finish my PhD and I am looking forward to move on to new experiences and projects, which include long travels to new places and new friends.

PHILOSOPHY

Why not?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new here, looking forward to my first CS experience.

Interests

Sports: hiking, skiing, martial arts (I practise jujitsu but I am interested in all types of martial arts), sailing (mostly on small sport catamarans but would like to sail on larger boats too), running, beginner in rock climbing.

Going "castle hunting": hunting for and exploring ruins of castles,roman and other ruins, megaliths and all types of old stones, especially the hidden ones, those away from the main touristic roads.

Astronomy, with a telescope or just by lying on the ground in the middle of nowhere and watching the stars.

My two dogs

Italian gelati! :)

Dark and cynical humour

Photography,painting and drawing

I like to experiement on cooking desserts (cakes,cookies, creams, ice creams...) from time to time, experimenting because I can never follow a recipe without modifying it in some fantasist way.

Learning new languages (still trying to understand swiss german, also learning italian and mandarin), discovering new cultures and meeting people from all over the world. Travelling, going to concerts, spending evenings chatting or playing board games, role playing games or video games with friends...and so many more things.

• dogs
• arts
• photography
• concerts
• cooking
• desserts
• running
• video games
• board games
• traveling
• socializing
• painting
• drawing
• hiking
• hunting
• sailing
• skiing
• sports
• martial arts
• rock climbing
• swimming
• astronomy
• geology
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I listen mostly to indie rock these days but I like different styles and it changes very fast. Some of my favorites at the moment are Firewater, Breaking Benjamin, Chris Garneau, Hawksley Workman, Three Day Grace, Stars, 30 seconds to Mars, Lifehouse, Helios, Minor Majority, Sopor Aeternus, Matthew Ryan and a recently discovered swiss duo called Mina.

Books: a lot! I read all types of books with a preference for fantastic, fairy tales, fantasy, science and travel books. Some favorites are (no order): American Gods from Neil Gaiman, and all other Neil Gaiman books, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell from Susanna Clarke, Apprentice Assassin by Robin Hobb, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Count of Monte Cristo, sailing books by Bernard Moitessier, L'Enchanteur by Barjavel, travel books by Jeromine Pasteur, ome philosophers (Kant, Nietzsche, Plato)...

Movies: current top favorite: Pan's labyrinth! second top favoite: Into the Wild and the Lord of the Ring trilogy. Lot of Asian movies such as Old Boy, Joint Security Area, Memories of Murder, The Killer, Kairo, Dark Water, Bin-Jip, all the Takeshi Kitano movies... Ghost and movies like El Orphanato, The Others, Evil Dead; Japanese animation such as Jin-Roh, Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Beebop...and many more.
Some TV series: My name is Earl, Battlestar Galactica, House MD, Rome...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2 weeks in Japan guided by a Japanese friend. I loved it, everything was so different, so fascinating, it felt like another planet.
Travelling in the Canadian Rockies (region of Lake Louise and Banff), meeting a wolf on the road in the evening light. Then travelling from Calagary to Glacier National Park in Montana, watching thousands of stars from somewhere in the middle of these amazing mountains.

Teach, Learn, Share

french language of course, some martial art and self-defense techniques, astronomy (through my telescope if the sky is clear), some dessert cooking, for the runners: going on a running/sight-seeing tour of Bern, or for the swimmers: going for a swim in the Aare (summer only!), exchanging views on the world the universe and everything...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Myanmar, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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