Dear future hosts and friends!
I'm Laure, I come from Alsace in France, a region on the border with Germany and Switzerland, and am currently studying in England where I've now lived for 4 amazing years. I was last year on my erasmus year in Salzburg, Austria, where I've lived an entire year full of music, Strudel and european traveling. So as you might guess I am a real travel lover!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing is to me a great way to discover the culture of another country in a much more authentic way, than by sticking to the big touristic attractions, or diving your nose in a guide book. I have previous experiences of being hosted by inhabitants and keep a very found memory of it. It is not always obvious to meet the natives/inhabitants of the country you visit, but if you can it is truly priceless and makes your stay a very unique experience. With couchsurfing I really hope to live, eat, talk, and breath local! And why not, make some new friends across the world?

Interests

• literature
• architecture
• photography
• salsa dancing
• cooking
• painting
• fishing
• rock climbing
• tennis
• history
• cinema
• learning languages
• theatre
• museums
• hicking
• balkan music
• jazz music
• skying
• brass instruments
• hispanic music

Music, Movies, and Books

I am a big Jazz lover, any song where I can hear brass instruments in general drives me a bit out of my mind. My great-grand-father played the saxophone and I now try as best as I can to pick it up. I do love balkan and hispanic music from Compay segundo, to Beirut and Goran Bregovi, wherever there is an air of brass it's for me. Concerning movies I like the classics as well as the contemporary experimental court-metrages. I have a little crush on Fellini's movies, European new wave and expressionist movies, Bergman's Personae, Tarkovsky's Mirrors, Ozu's Tokyo Story, and dark disturbing German modernist and post-modernist movies and literature.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Traveling on my own. I've been backpacking in Switzerland for 2 weeks, just me the road and the mountains. Everyday I was bathing in a different lake early in the morning, so no one would see. That was freedom I think.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love cooking, people say I'm not bad! I'm really keen on learning, so I can follow and share with you my French and Austrian recipes. Fluent in French, English and currently making a desperate effort to learn German, I am quiet a talkative person who really enjoy picking new languages, and meeting new people. Tell me about you, your country, your language and I am sure I can share something of my experience living in France and abroad.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My knowledge of French, English, German and Austrian cultures. My cooking skills and my optimism!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, England, France