I'm a no-man's land type of person.

By that I just mean to say I'm a "middle-er" and don't feel comfortable being on one side and sticking to it - I like spending time with very different types of people and trying to understand their points of view ; I am a practical person and a theorist at the same time ; I love the experience of living in different countries and trying to adapt to the culture, but I am who I am and won't take in every and anything ; I enjoy staying in big cities and in the countryside. I'm diverse, and need diversity..

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

I hosted a few CS back when I was living in Bordeaux, Toulouse and Podgorica. I also went to a few meetings and for a few drinks and tried to help with tips like how to write a French CV, how to apply for a job in a wineward or where to find a good restaurant...

Centres d'intérêt

For example :
- hillwalking and more generally, being in the outdoors
- storytelling and "storylistening"
- reading (both fiction and essays)
- writing (creative writing)
- learning languages
- teaching languages
- travelling
- watching films
- drawing
- singing
- taking pictures
(as for the last 3 points, I'm an amateur but would like to take a course some day)

• culture
• writing
• singing
• recipes
• coffee
• drinking
• flowers
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• outdoor activities
• languages

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

A sample of films, books and bands I love may give you a better idea of my tastes than a paragraph.

Films :
- My Dog Tulip
- Never Let Me Go
- Mary and Max
- Gran Torino
- Lemon Tree (Etz Limon)
- The Last King of Scotland
- Locataires (Bin Jib)
- Big Fish
- Thank You For Smoking
- Shooting Dogs
- Lord of War
- Princesas
- The Lifes of Others (Das Leben der Anderen)
- La Zona
- The Dinner Game (Le dîner de cons)
- La haine
- Persepolis
- Black Cat, White Cat (Crna macko, beli macor)
- ...

Music:
- The Beatles
- The Felice Brothers
- Travis
- Belle and Sebastian
- Marina And The Diamonds
- Blonde Redhead
- Enigma
- Enya
- Parov Stelar
- Wax Tailor
- Pink Martini
- Coldplay
- Dead Can Dance
- Death in Vegas
- Bonobo
- Oi Va Voi
- Sigur Ros
- Caravan Palace
- Les acrobates
- Debout sur le zinc
- Mano Solo
- La rue Kétanou
- Java
- Orishas
- Garavi Sokak
- Jadranka Stojakovic
- Scottish and Irish folk music (especially as played in tiny local pubs like the Fishermen's Tavern in the Ferry!)
- ...

Books:
- Je tue les enfants français dans les jardins (Maria Neuser)
- L'année de la pensée magique (The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion)
- Le monde d'hier ; souvenirs d'un Européen (Die Welt von Gestern - Stefan Zweig)
- Pierre et Jean (Guy de Maupassant)
- Antigone (Jean Anouilh)
- L'Ecume des jours (Boris Vian)
- The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time (Marc Haddon)
- Le parfum (Das parfum - Patrick Süskind)
- Le coeur est un muscle involontaire (Monique Proulx)
- Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
- ...

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

I don't like having to answer this question to be able to send a couch request.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

I can teach you some French, if you want to.

I would love to share some music and films, especially some music that is difficult to find in stores.

We could share moments taking pictures ; I'm very much into details, I love picturing "pieces of" (a flower, an eye, a shoe, a pen, a cup of coffee...)

I'd like to swap some recipes as well!

Pays que j'ai visités

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Kosovo, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Croatia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom

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