Hi!

I am a 21 year old girl living in Paris, where I grew up, and where I am completing my degree in political science / public affairs.

I think I would have loved to lead a nomadic lifestyle - I need to move from place to place regularly, and I have lived at a lot of friends in an unconventional way; sharing rooms, cooking which I love, stories, and ideas... Consequently I have lived quie everywhere in Paris, and could make you feel " at home" in many areas! My friends and my guests are all family for me.

I love to meet new people, for I have many questions but less and less answers to them as I learn more, listen to radically different points of views, and observe the state of the world.

I am most interested in what I still don't know or suspect, but would love to discuss politics, cinema, litterature, religion or even esoteric subjects with you :) without forgetting cuisine, especially Italian one!

I have quite a multicultural family, and a strong link to the South of Italy where I spent almost all my summers. That's why, although I am French, I have a strong attachment to the Mediterranean culture and way of life.

I did an Erasmus in Istanbul last year which I absolutely loved - the city, the people, the way of life...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I had always wanted to host couchsurfers but could not, since I was living at my parents. Now that I will have my own place in Paris, I am very excited to meet people from various countries and to travel in the way I consider the best - which is, meeting local people, listening, seeing and learning things you could never learn from a guidebook. I really enjoy talking to people, quite everywhere I go, and especially meeting people whose lives, points of views, culture are different from mine.

On the other hand, I love to make people ( and my friends!) feel comfy, cosy at home, I like to cook others very much and to make people discover my favourite places, cafes and so on..

Interests

• cooking
• politics
• history
• psychology
• religion
• sociology
• independent cinema
• mountain hiking
• street photography
• nomadism

Music, Movies, and Books

- love American folk music like Joan Baez, Italian and French classic songs, French rap, but also a hdostoïevskiell lot of Eastern and Middle East music, be it from Israel ( Avishai Cohen), Turkey, or rai arabic music...

- I like French authors a lot, of course, and especially Maupassant ( " une vie"), Flaubert in Mme Bovary, Raymond Radiguet who is not well known.. But I also love Russian litterature ( spent a summer dreaming with War and Peace ahah, and enjoy a lot Dostoïevski and Gogol). Usually, I am fond of great, breathtaking and historical novels, especially if they are about family drama! East of Eden from Steinbeck is one of my favourite book.
I didn't read so much poetry until I discovered Nâzim Hikmet poems in Istanbul.. I would love to discover Persian poetry as well.
Oh, and you should read Marguerite Duras texts. They are beautiful.

I go very often to the cinema, as much as I can, and it's hard to tell my favourite movies. I was very moved by Hiroshima, my love. I watched Barry Lindon 3 times love all Korean dark movies; road movies as well and of course Italian movies from the neo realist period; as well as French ones - Truffaut, Resnais, Renoir :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I would be happy to help you talk French

I can share a lot of funny stories which keep happening to me, don't know why ahah

I'd like to learn whaterver is precious to you

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Senegal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Turkey