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Overview

  • 20 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish; learning German, Latin, Occitan, Russian
  • 65, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • I manage my own small company, see my pro site
  • electronic engineer from CNAM-Paris university
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

enjoying life and learning all kinds of things and to speak russian
ABOUT ME
World citizen but finally more close to latin cultures because they are the only ones capable of idealizing and do lots of useless things . :)

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What to say? realistic poet, in love of life, traveling of course! good wines, good food, reading, music , scuba diving

PHILOSOPHY

leben and leben lassen.
be free and respect other people freedom

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I can be a tourist guide for places I know , I can make old stones speaking to you !
like to exchange french or other language lessons against russian language, need to improve my russian level of speaking to improve my travels in this lovely country.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Good ideia, is a mirror of global society, you can find a sample of every kind of people ))

Interests

lots, too many too mention! cinema, japanese cinema, reading, scuba diving, traveling , music, drinking good wines ( never drunk!) and so on.
I travel a lot around the world but still have travel dreams, :crossing Panama strait, diving in Antartica, the russian Transiberian train, Any one interested ?

  • movies
  • reading
  • scuba diving
  • adventure travel
  • travelling
  • learning new things
  • learning new languages
  • passion

Music, Movies, and Books

too many to mention!, technical books ( I am an engineer!)anthropology, psychology, history
to mention a movie? Amarcord from Fellini, Ran from Kurosawa, a book? may be "voyage au bout de la nuit " from Celine, in love with Gogol , Thomas Hardy , Pushkin , and many others

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Not really amazing but I am a proud deserter of french army, as I think that humains are not fitted for bearing uniforms.
- Created my own company in order to meet my liberterian beliefs that waiting for other people to employ you is the first step for slavery :)
NB: You are not forced to agree with me , hihihihihi

TRaveling by local buses from Mexico to Brasil, really enjoy it, same thing in India from Kolkotta to Rajhastan, a little more difficult but still nice remembers, a trip with "jacaré" ( sort alligators) in Amazonia in a "caboclos" territory.
Few days in Thibetan temple which was strictly forbbiden by local civil administration.
ABOUT TRAVELLING:
I travel over 60% of this world, too long to put all visited countries, still to discover Siberia - one of the reasons I am learning russian -if you like to know about my travels please see this link.

http://www.travbuddy.com/maps/6130967

Teach, Learn, Share

learn what I can, a day without learning is a wasted day, teach if asked for and if I know,
language exchanges.
Trying to understand personnal and colective psychology ( I wrote trying since still understand little ihihihih )

What I Can Share with Hosts

just share my passions for life , if you come to Paris and lots of cities in West Europ , I can make stones talking to you !

I visited more than half the world to see and try to understand, but sorry to say I have seen more than I did understand, we can share ideias and visions.

Countries I’ve Visited

Afghanistan, China

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

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