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Overview

  • 9 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning Chinese, Japanese, Spanish
  • 36, Other
  • Member since 2010
  • I am at university in industrial relations and working pa...
  • I am at university now
  • From Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Travel through the world to become an international human being

ABOUT ME

I am a 21 year old university student at Université de Montréal. I study in industrial relations, and I think you go university one time in your life... So it is not all about studying! Indeed, I organize the parties for my program and I maximise my pleasure in life. During holidays, I always travel, each summer I visit a different place in the world.
As you see I like to party and hang-out with my friend, but I have also a side more quiet. I like relaxing, watching nature, reading, watching movies, playing strategy game!
I think I have a good balance between my quiet side and my party side. I do both depending on what is offered to me and wich opportunity I take!

PHILOSOPHY

You have only one live, so you need to have the most pleasure possible!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am pretty new to CS community, but I think that I will be able to host people when they come to Montreal even if I am sometime busy... If they are ready to party I will lead them to the best places in Montreal!
I am also willing take a coffee with someone that wants advice in Montreal or simply to exchange cultures... and opinions!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not much... My Japanese trip will lead me to my first CS experiences! Looking forward for adventure!

Interests

I am a Martial artist, I specialize myself in Brazilian Jiujitsu, but I do a bit of Judo and Taekwondo. I like the philosophy attached to martial arts, I do not use them for violence but for self-defense and people well being. Of course I do like competition, but with respect and dignity.
I like to go out, Montreal is a really nice place for night life (Lonely planet ranking : Montreal number 2 in thw world for night life!!)
I like to be with my friends, play video games with them, do sports with them like soccer, basketball, volleyball... all kind of team sports!
I also like more single activities like hiking and cycling.
I also love board games... Indeed I am a big chess player! But I also love games like Risk,and any kind of games when it involves strategy!
I am also a salsal dancer. I took lesson for 1 year and a half of salsa but also merengue and bachata! It's been a while that I didin't practised but I love to dance!
As you can se I have many intesrests! I am always willing to discover new things and I love to try things that people want to share with me. I am not a difficult person!

  • arts
  • dancing
  • bachata
  • breakfast
  • coffee
  • walking
  • partying
  • movies
  • video games
  • board games
  • chess
  • reading
  • team sports
  • traveling
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • sports
  • basketball
  • martial arts
  • soccer
  • volleyball

Music, Movies, and Books

I LOVE movies! I have seen lot of classics movies. Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Akira Kurosawa to name few ones... These times, I watch a lot of horror/gore movies, but I like almost everykind. I prefer non-hollywood movies, but I wont say that I dont like all of them! So much to discover in movies, I hope in my life I will be able to see all the movies that are worth it!
Favorite movies:
Gore: Cannibal Holocaust.
Sci-fi : 2001 : A space odyssey
Drama : The new world
Historic : The elephant man
Horror : 28 weeks later
I like so much more!!!

I like so much kind of music! Hip-Hop, techno, house, jazz, rock, heavy metal, even classic music when I need to relax! I love discovering music from around the world!
My favorite metal band is Megadeth! For the other style I don't have any favorite artist. When I am at home, I like to mix house music with virtual DJ, I am kind of very amateur DJ. I did some party and event also as a DJ.

My favorite books are sci-fi books, but I also love non-fictionnal books... The last book that I loves was a french book " Un arc-en-ciel dans la nuit". It was about the history of south Africa from when the Europeans have arrived passing through Nelson Mandela and finally a democracy for every race... It was an amazing book!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In my opinion I think I havent done any amazing things... I must say that one thing that I found pretty special was when I have ben to Peru in a small village in lac Titicaca eating breakfast with locals and having guinea pig in the kitchen walking under the table and chairs. Was pretty different from my home country!

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to share my knowledge about martial arts and chess!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Peru, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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