CURRENT MISSION

looking for the Graal

ABOUT ME

Hélène : I love to think I could have been a musician...instead I am trying to understand how the European Union is functioning! I am working as a communications officer for cultural association in Paris, specialized in Eastern European theatre.
I really like travelling and learning crazy languages (hindi, azeri, flamish...seriously arabic and its thousand dialects, and persian is my next project).
I'm looking forward to meeting you from all around the world!

Alex : I'm a freelance journalist specializing in art and the French muslim community. I started working full time as a journalist less than one year ago and I love it ! Even though you have to forget all about money when you do that job...
I am also learning Arabic, and am currently looking for a conversation partner. Traveling is my main pleasure and hobby. Even though I travel less since I work freelance, I want to explore all of Europe, especially the Eastern part which intrigues me a lot !

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

asap!

Interests

Helene : Music (playing the piano and guitare), reading science fiction books, comics, but also philosophy and classic literature...
Alex : Newsfreak, love reading Le Monde or Libération, investigating a subject for months until I get sick of it, listening to good live music (jazz, funk and rock'n roll) and drinking GOOD beer...

• cats
• dogs
• arts
• books
• literature
• beer
• drinking
• comics
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• jazz
• piano
• cycling
• communications
• dialects
• freelancing
• journalism
• languages
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Hmm a few examples then: The Dictator, Charlie Chaplin; La visite de la fanfare, Festen...
Music: classical ( I love Grieg,Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, Satie), jazz music, folk music, indie, arabic traditional music...among others!
Books: everything René Barjavel wrote, Kundera, Freud...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping under a farmer's tent in the Jordanian desert.
Working at the UN in New York (Alex)
Traveling through Europe to meet exiled writers and interview them (exiletlitterature.com)
What we want to do in the future ? Study again, have time to live, travel with the bike instead of the subway, have a cat and a dog !

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, China, Germany, India, Niger, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Jordan