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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Arabic, English, French
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Spreading love and happiness!!
  • joy
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 80% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Save the world :p

ABOUT ME

Je suis toujours plus curieuse de connaitre les autres, heureuse de partager quelques moments de vie, tout simplement!
J' aime le genre humain dans toute sa splendeur et sa folie. J'aime manger, boire, rire, rire, rire, danser, chanter, rire, délirer, philosopher, discuter, rire, manger, boire, dormir,rire, rire!!! j'aime la vie tout simplement!

I love sharing part of my life with others and learn from them. I'm open minded and up for new experiences. I think that there isn't stangers but only friends I didn't meet yet.

Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive anyway :)

PHILOSOPHY

Keep learning, strive to be always happy and share that happiness with the world. Treat others the way you would wish to be treated, but also with an understanding of their culture, and the world will be a better place :)
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
Confucius

"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."
Unknown

"If you think you're too small to have an impact try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
Anita Koddick

"For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move."
Robert Louis Stevenson

I strive for "Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdon to always tell the diference".
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting, surfing, meet-ups... Any way I can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Before it was just a great concept, but now it has been (and still is) a gateway to meet amazing people and creat some great friendships!

Interests

Cultural differences,travelling, history, nature, hiking, lively cities, small villages, laughing with groups of friends, reading, philosophy, theatre, diving, archeology, art, music...enjoy life!!!

  • fish
  • arts
  • culture
  • books
  • walking
  • flying
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • fishing
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • kayaking
  • surfing
  • scuba diving
  • hang gliding
  • archeology
  • cartography
  • teaching
  • history
  • languages
  • philosophy
  • tours

Music, Movies, and Books

everything that moves me :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The amazing thing I think I've done, is teaching.
Because it took few hours of my life and it will change their lives forever!
Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you've fed him forever!

Teach, Learn, Share

What a life of travel does to you!

A life of travel is a good thing to have. But once you start off on it, there’s no looking back. What traveling does to you is working its way inside of you, changing you completely as it finds a seat deep within you.


It’s a parasite with a greedily voracious appetite. That bastard is hungry. Once the travel bug bites, you’re afflicted for life. Once the wanderlust hits, your feet never stop being restless.


It creeps into the edges of your mind. You start clicking through Facebook albums from past trips to Peru or China or Ghana. You find yourself browsing WikiTravel or Intrepid Travel, concocting perfect two-month tours of Africa or South America or Asia.


Idly, you check travelsites to see how much a flight next month is to Cambodia. Just for the hell of it. Just in case. It never hurts to know, right?


The temptation is always there, just to take off work, drop everything, and go. And once you have a trip on the books, it’s inevitable that you eyes creep toward a calendar during any spare moment and instinctually count down the days until you can fly. There’s a constant itch that gets under your skin, and the only way to scratch it involves a plane (or train or bus) ticket, a backpack, and plans that don’t go beyond “just get me out.”


Our heroes are people like Antoine de Maximy, who makes a living (and a life) out of trekking to the furthest corners of the map. We like stumbling through sentences in foreign languages. We feel proud when we can get through three weeks in Eastern Europe on a single backpack or successfully navigate through the tricky back alleys of a new city.


We get thrills during the moment that a plane takes off from the runway or a bullet train pulls out of the station. We get off on eating foods that contain things we’ve never tried before, let alone heard of. We love filling out those “where I’ve been” maps and seeing just how much of the world we’ve covered.


For those who make traveling a lifestyle, the fear of putting down permanent roots is always present. Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson has said, “Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.” He may have been talking about supercars, but I think the philosophy applies just as well to traveling, too.


If you’re constantly moving, whether it’s on the back of a motorbike in Ho Chi Minh City, a vespa in Firenze, or a kayak down the rapids on the Rio Grande, suddenly hitting the brakes can be absolutely devastating.


It’s a constant fear that I’ve hit my “peak” and that I’ll spend the rest of my life wanting to travel and being unable to. Instead of actually getting out to see the sun rise in Goa, I’ll have to settle for a picture I found on Google as my laptop background.


When I returned home to France from living in Middle East, my mum remarked to me, “We’ll have to nail your feet down to keep you stateside, won’t we?” And it wasn’t a week later that I told my mom I wanted to move to Africa.


I’m lucky, and I know it. The job I have right now basically allows me to travel as much as I want; I may officially be an “Special needs teacher,” but if I had it my way, “globetrotter” would be front and center on my résumé.


One of my favorite quotes about traveling is “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” It sums up perfectly just why I love globetrotting so much. Once you start, you can never truly finish. There’s always more to see, more to explore, more summits to climb, more seas to dive into, more cities to get lost in.


When it’s you experiencing them, you can’t help but grin to yourself and feel a certain gleeful shiver work its way through you. My favorite, but by no means solitary, example of such a moment happened in Paris last summer. I was walking through an arcade near the Louvre, turned a corner, and then was greeted by a busker playing the cello set against the backdrop of the setting sun reflecting through the Louvre pyramid’s glass. That right there is something straight out of a Woody Allen movie.
As scared as I am that I’ll lose the means to travel, I think I know in the back of my head that I’ll never let it truly happen.


Wanderlust doesn’t just die from disuse or neglect. Get a camel, a hot air balloon, a pair of snowshoes, a hang glider, a sledge pulled by dogs… if you want to get out, you’re getting out...

The secret of the Chimney, R.Z

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

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