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Overview

  • 3 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in French; learning English, German
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Visual art teacher
  • life... (original isn't it?) But also university.
  • From Montréal
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Make Visual art, music, going out and travelling balance with my job as a visual art teacher while having lots of crazy unexpected experiences enlarge my vision of the world

ABOUT ME

Hard question..

I love in life:
- meeting new people
- discovering new areas
- learning by experience
- doing outdoor sports
- spending time, a day, a night, to do visual arts
- dreaming about the next possible travel
- reading in bed and listening to the rain outside
- waking up early just to go drink a coffee and read the newspaper.
- shopping for clothes, or for food in small markets
- playing music (guitar and singing) alone or with a group wich is even more fun.
- beeing a geek for one day and playing computer games.
- Going to the beach
- Doing crazy stuff like hitch hiking between spain and france just to see the snow on top.
- painting with music on maximum level.
- walking with my backpack in a place I don't know.
- going out until the next morning with friends
- eating sushis with a bottle of white wine
- teaching art with kids or teenagers.
- allowing myself to be on the moon (être dans la lune?)

Oder things: I am half canadian and austrian. I'm now a student in Université du Québec à Montréal and I normaly work in several different places at the same time. I worked in schools, museums, parcs, coffe shops, restaurants, camps, etc. I have to many plans for the future, but I try to treat myself.

PHILOSOPHY

Live the life you dream of.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I used to do it (only 2 times, I'm ashamed!) when travelling southern france with my german friends. Now living with my bf in Montrealm we had our first couchsurfer for a month here, It is a really good friend yes... :) Hoping to meet new people soon!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only 2 but they were positive and I'm looking foward to the next adventures.

Interests

Visual art, music, scuba diving, skiing, travelling, fashion, sewing and.. food.

  • arts
  • singing
  • fashion
  • dining
  • cooking
  • wine
  • white wine
  • coffee
  • baking
  • walking
  • drinking
  • shopping
  • clothing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • painting
  • music
  • guitar
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • scuba diving
  • skiing
  • sports
  • teaching
  • visual arts
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: The Alchimist, Chercher le vent, Le libraire de Kaboul, Le goût du Bonheur (Laberge), Harry Potter (yes, and I assume it),

Movies: SlumDog Milionnare, Frida, C'est pas moi je l'jure, La vie après l'amour, Willow, Across the universe, The artist! etc.

TV shows: Who's that line anyway?, Simpsons, Mad men,

Music: The Do, Justice, Jenn Grant, Beirut, Crystal castles, Django Reinhart, Thierry Robinson, La Rue Kétanou, The Beatles, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Katimavik: a volonteer work program for youth all across Canada. I stayed in British Colombia, eastern Québec and Manitoba and worked in: a milk farm, an elementary school and library, in a New Icelandic Museum Heritage, and finaly on the construction of a regionnal parc in a forest of nothern BC.
Mon Odyssée: A program for students after college. We had to teach our first langage (french or english) in an other province to promote bilinguisim across Canada for a year. I lived and worked in Wolfville, Nova-Scotia.

Back packing for 5 weeks in Austria, Italy and Greece.

Taking Scuba diving lessons and doing my exam outside at minus 12 degrees celsius in November.

Doing a university exchange in Marseille, ESBAM for a semester.

Teach, Learn, Share

Painting, sewing, playing the guitar, singing, baking bread and cooking some austrian food...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Greece, Italy, Mexico, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France

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