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Overview

  • 3 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Creole, English, French; learning Portuguese, Spanish
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Online Marketing expert
  • Computer Information System Design
  • From Paris
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To meet people from various backgrounds, experience/share unforgettable moments and travel (get lost?) as long as my feet support my upper body.

ABOUT ME

I've been told that I'm outgoing, (too?)open-minded, sociable and apparently always travelling. After so many years outside France and after meeting XXXXXX people from all over the world I see myself as a world citizen. I have also the loudest laughter on earth according to some of my friends...

PHILOSOPHY

Made a mistake? Learn from it...turn it into something positive. Also I believe life's a hurdles race. Don't look too much at the past because you'll eventually miss the next hurdle.

To finish one saying from Guadeloupe: "On min ka lave lot" which means one hand washes the other. In other words we all need each other!

Interests

- 19th/20th century French litterature
- Independent movies
- 80's and 90's Mangas
- Languages/Etymology
- Extreme sports (well..trying...)
- 60's/70's music from all over the world (Afrobeat/Brazilian in particular)
- Squash and running
- Food, comida, nourriture

  • dining
  • running
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • hiking
  • sports
  • racquetball
  • paragliding
  • extreme sports
  • etymology
  • languages
  • squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Zouk, Bele, Dancehall, Reggae, Kompa, Cumbia, Gwoka, House, Electro, Rap, Afrobeat, Mbp & Samba (Jorge Ben, Elis Regina, Jose Mauro...meu deus...), Soul, Kuduro, Northern soul, Kizomba, Reggaeton, Salsa, Merengue etc...

Author: Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Jules Verne, Mehdi Charef, Moshin Hamid,H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Hector Malot, Khaled Hosseini, Frantz Fanon etc...

Movies: Grave of the Fireflies, Serpico, Le chat du rabbin, Letters from Iwo Jima, Man with No Name Trilogy and other Sergio Leone classics, Tchao Pantin, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Run Lola Run, Rear window, Les choses de la vie, Mesrine etc...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Flew a two seater aircraft
- Survived a paragliding take off
- Had the unimaginable luck to pray in The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (although this isn't allowed to non-muslims)
- Did a 6 hour hike to Boiling lake (Dominica), 2nd largest hot spring in the world
- Survived English food for 9 years ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Dominica, Germany, Guadeloupe, Malta, Martinique, Morocco, Mozambique, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United Kingdom

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