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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning English, Italian, Spanish
  • 28, Female
  • Member since 2015
  • standby student
  • Urban managment and solidarities (GUS)
  • From Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

After learning from Bristol about transition towns, I knew that I ´ll need to come back in England to experimenting deeper. I went in summer after my first year of studies in South of England and realised the way I needed
to learn and experimenting my life, what I knew from my city, my country and most of all about relationships. This first itinerant « travel » permited me to learn about what I care. As a kid dream, I planed to go to discovering Aotearoa by walk for one year started in June 2018. Now I am back home for sometimes because of some events and plan to take back where I started in about one year.

I deepely trust in slow ways to live and discovering places, countries.
Hitchhiking, I defend this way of moving for different reasons, meeting people you’ll never meet in other conditions, sharing trust with your hosts/friends (daily mates) and opinions by open talks, because we receive many advices for our way, because I like how people can be spontaneous, because sharing a journey is when we share our time, for those adventures spent with our road friends, by the fact that a road offer learnings and shared time.

I enjoy little things of our lives, a ray of sun, long walks in nature as in cities sometimes (not too often ! haha), doing things I don’t usually do, walking hours and hours without goal exploring, exhibitions and naps in the grass, doodling, sharing about our past and futur days and drink a little beer (or caïpi) at present time !
I never been difficult with food, I just don’t eat a lot of meat. Learn consuming easily and be respectfull about what is around. I’m interesting in edible plantes, local agriculture, food swaps principles, principles of community lifestyles, low technologies and auto/suficiente ways to live.
Learning and sharing make me just.. happy :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing offer to meet people easily, soak up the culture, learning about places and people trought the experiences, getting some tips you’ll probably never knew by yourself .
It makes me just cheerfull !

I met amazing people thanks to the website (as you can see my hosts and I quiet never wrote references but If you « want » to you ´ll let me know)

Interests

Love gardening, cooking alone/ with people with « left overs », interesting in diversity of ways of living, music for sure , discovering forget places and those unexpected things of our lives. Biking, Hitchiking (South of England changed my way of seeing my mobility). Learning everyday thanks to our people and our curiosity ! And benevolence.

  • writing
  • cooking
  • walking
  • cultural studies
  • hitchhiking
  • nature
  • tea
  • people
  • sleeping
  • streetart
  • love
  • discovering
  • listening to music
  • debating
  • respect
  • sharing experiences
  • local development
  • social and solidary economy

Music, Movies, and Books

Hum really into raggae ( sun music !), Bossa Nova, techno, rap UK, blues, jazz, poetry music and so many...

Artic monkeys, Rosa Passos, Amy Winehouse, Loyle Carner, Alabama Shakes, Vanupie, Alice Phoebe Lou, IFE, Raging Fyah, Joao Gilberto, Kali Uchis, Jamie xx, SOJA, Chronixx, Paul K, Alba Marba, The strokes, The Black Madonna, Azaelia Banks, 1975, Las Aves, The Blaze, Jill Scott,Tame Impala, Yuna, Unknown mortal orchestra,The Shoes, Grimes, Mary J Blige, Rael,The Skints, Phoenix, Cee-Roo, Jorja Smith, Papooz, Nas, Seu Jorge, Beirut, Buena vista social club, Calypso Rose, Odezenne, The Black Keys, Natiruts, Moderat, Mgmt, The Fugees, The roots, Jah Vinci, YAS, King Krule,.............is what I can listening.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Time and what it can involve

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Spain, Tunisia

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy, New Zealand

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