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Overview

  • 11 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian; learning Arabic, Spanish
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • architect
  • not bad
  • From Suburbs of Paris, France
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

save the world

ABOUT ME

short size, brown curly hair.
curious & hyperactive
impatient and scatterbrain
clumsy but lucky
Laugh easily
easygoing...

PHILOSOPHY

'try to learn something about everything and everything about something'

Time has two dimensions; sun's rythm for length, passions rythm for depth. A. Maalouf

« Ce que j'aime dans les voyages, c'est l'étonnement du retour. » Stendhal

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

(travelling)
sareh, karaj, iran, july 2009
mirza, bukhara, uzbekistan, august 2009
yusuf, fergana, uzbekistan, august 2009
samir, hongkong, november 2009
the homestay, bangkok, thailand, january 2010
vinay, kolkata, india, march 2010
hiranya, delhi, india, march, april, july 2010
bhumika&pramod, katmandu, nepal, april 2010
pooya, shiraz, iran, august 2010
gita&elnaz, tehran, iran, august 2010
francesco, san martino buon albergo, italy, december 2010
gessica& cristiano, verona, italy, december 2010
ciro, genova, italy, january 2011
anthony, toulon, france, january 2011 (also on warmshowers)
cyril, romain, doris.. marseille, france, january 2011
(also on warmshowers)
leo, narbonne, france, february 2011
philippe, carcassonne,france, february 2011
annouille, bordeaux, france, february 2011
vincent, roannes, france, february 2011
Rémi and noelle, moulins, france, march 2011
cécile, bourges, france, march 2011
nolwenn and julien, orléans, france, march 2011

these are the visible part of the iceberg. if we meet some day, i can also talk for hours about the people hosting without being part of the CS project..
hope to host as well as i've been hosted. soon.
work in progress. (as i come back home)

Interests

architecture & contemporary art, drawing
running & mountaineering, cycling
learning foreign languages

  • fish
  • arts
  • architecture
  • contemporary art
  • running
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • cycling
  • fishing
  • mountaineering
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Soylent Green, Richard Fleischer - 1973
Lost in translation - Sofia Coppola - 2003
la science des reves - Michel Gondry -2006-http://www.michelgondry.com/
J ai toujours reve d'etre un gangster-Samuel Benchetrit - 2007
Triplettes from Belleville - sylvain Chomet - 2003
underground - kusturica - 1995
lost highway, mulholland drive - Lynch...
miyazaki...

Delirious NY - R. Koolhaas - 1997
Design and crime - Hal Foster- 2003
Vers Samarcande - Bernard Ollivier - 2005
On the road - Jack Kerouac - 1957
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi - 2004
Steppen wolf - herman hesse
1984 - George orwell
history of art - ernst gombrich
les chemins de la liberte - jean paul sartre
l ecume des jours, boris vian
conversazioni in sicilia - vittorini
se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all ombra - tito balestra
Bjork-Nouvelle vague-Franz Ferdinand-Radiohead-Janis Joplin-Herman Dune-Beirut-Vampire weekend-Serge Gainsbourg-Boris Vian-Edith Piaf-Les tetes raides-the Doors-Fela Kuti-Antibalas-Rokia Traore-le peuple de l'herbe-Asian dub foundation-Amon Tobin...

artists: Richard Hamilton, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Banksy, blu,
jean michel alberola, goya, lucian freud
nicolas de crecy (french comic creator)http://www.villa-kujoyama.or.jp, trapier

ralph eugene meatyard - the family album of lucybelle crater, diane arbus, bill owens - suburbia, robert frank - the americans, william Klein, larry clark, dusseldorf's school .. bernd&hilla becher, andreas gursky,valerie belin, miroslav tichy

Rem Koolhaas-Patrick bouchain-Alvaro Siza-Louis Khan

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

having crossed a 2 km long abandonned tunnel, in total darkness, just seeing the point of light of the exit.

Teach, Learn, Share

know how to make fish, ball, monkey, cranes and helicopter origamis
Want to learn how to make pingus camels, and elephants.

Countries I’ve Visited

Burkina Faso, China, Greece, India, Iran, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Spain, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy

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