CURRENT MISSION

(Allow me to think about, I am not sure...)

ABOUT ME

I love my family, my friends, my job (and most of my pupils...)and my liberty. I am very interested in politics (sometimes too much, it takes too much time...and sometimes it isn't worth...)

PHILOSOPHY

Il faut cultiver son jardin.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to host people, to show them around, to invite them for meals, to use the languages I learnt, to discuss ideas ......and to get hosted now and then.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some nice meetings with people, drinking coffee, talking, showing around in Linz. Some very nice experiences in hosting and getting hosted!

Interests

All kinds of cultural expression: literature, music (classic, at the moment baroc arias, operas); going to concerts, operas, theaters, festivals, cinema, lectures, exhibitions (contemporary and modern art); museums; history; traveling a lot; flying to France at least once a year.

Reading, reading, reading!

Meet friends at their or my home or go out and chat with them; dining in the city with friends; meet my friends in France and in other regions of the world; write e-mails to my friends; meet members of my big family, my brother, my nieces and nephews with their children; cook good meals (preferences: French, Italian, Asiatic kitchen); drink good wine or beer; Organize concert tours in France for Austrian choirs; footing, jogging, walking, biking in the nature, climbing up mountains, swimming in lakes.

..... and teaching!! And enjoying my life without forgetting my responsibilities.

• arts
• literature
• modern art
• concerts
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• coffee
• walking
• drinking
• flying
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• rock climbing
• swimming
• history
• languages
• tourism
• tours
• lakes
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

arthouse movies (particularly french);
Baroque music (Händel arias; Philippe Jaroussky, Joyce di Donato; Cecilia Bartoli; Bach oratories...)
classic; French chansons;

New German and Austrian novels; actual French literature; American and English novels (Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe, David Lodge, John Lanchester); sociological books (Rifkin, Senett, Jared Diamond); global economics, financial crisis and money (Joseph Stiglitz...)

historical novels (Robert Harris)and films; philosophical books; literature of the nineteenth century: Dostojewski, Tolstoi, Maupassant, Flaubert. Biographies; Art; Traveling guides; Internet sites about people, news and cultural items, countries, traveling destinations.
Documentary films on television.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most strange experience of last year was (and is still) the presentation of Syria (and some other countries...) in our medias in the last years....

Teach, Learn, Share

Austrian kitchen, explain German grammar (if it is wanted), showing and explaining monuments and nature (I have a lot of experience as guide for travelling agency), share cultural events;

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Paraguay, Poland, Russian Federation, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, United States

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