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Périgueux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
@xavier84486221
Member since 2009
CURRENT MISSION give back all I've been offered all along my way cyclong from France to South Korea. and more. ABOUT ME right now, I am essentially LEGS and PEDALS. wow, that was 2 years ago ! life is a constant change, so now I'm much more DIAPERS, MUSHROOMS and newfound FATHERHOOD in my parisian french life, I am also a passionate cook, a half skeptical-half enthusiastic teacher (History and Geography). I love dancing. still passionate cook, still skeptical, and more and more enthusiastic, but not Parisian at all anymore now ! http://dunfinisterealautre.jimdo.com/ PHILOSOPHY working on "emplir ma conscience de la beauté du monde", trying to... fill my consciousness with the beauty of the world, that's a weird dream I had, a few years ago, a path I try to follow.
Interested in Cooking
Fluent in German
Learning Bulgarian
5 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING this last year, my participation was rather one-sided : being hosted, from Istanbul to Seoul and much more, and cook the best I could, from gougère to béchamel. now is time to be the host and have people cooking for me ! visited 27 states (12%)Create your own visited map of The World or jurisdische veraling duits? COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I have been hosted ın ıstanbul by Serkan. and for a fırst experience, ı could hardly have ımagıned a better one. absolutely somethıng unıque to get to meet such persons. ı am more than enthusıastıc !!!and then I met Zehra, and then Ahmet, marvellous persons... CS makes me feel like the luckiest man on a bike ! that was 3 years ago, and still true !!
Music, Movies, and Books
L'usage du monde, Nicolas Bouvier Le Christ s'est arrêté à Eboli, Carlo Levi Les 101 quatrains d'Omar Khayyâm Marguerite Yourcenar Coetzee En attendant les barbares Alejo Carpentier, oh, c'est pas neuf ça... Duras La conscience de Zeno, Italo Svevo Now "Crime and Punishment", by Dostoievski movies by Kusturica above all those of Terence Mallick, in a different way. and music, from Philip Glass to Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Goran Bregovic, Chloe, Beth Gibbons, Jay-Jay Johannson, Serge Gainsbourg, Feist, Georges Brassens, Beirut and Bucovina's offspring, Shantel !! and tons of Turkish Pop, especially Mustafa Sandal ! I recently discovered Alina Orlova and Zhulya Kamalova, and hence my life is slightly but definitely different !
One Amazing Thing I've Done
I would take too long a time to tell it... well pardon my beıng so dırect, but probably the most amazıng for me was to be gıven the chance to survıve cancer 5 years ago, and now to cross the contınents on my bıcycle. all the rest ıs rooted ın that experıence.
Teach, Learn, Share
I can be a rather good cooking teacher, for anyone with some time for it. and of course my magical bike is available for trial session !!
My Interests
a vast amount of things I am interested in, I must say... quite a curious person. let's say I like to be surprised, and that can happen every hour, sometimes more... to be slightly more specific, let's mention a taste for words, languages and their history, a huge interest for environmental matters, an appetite for legends from places such as Caucasus or Tian Shan. and much more. basically : rivers, mountains, trees anything interests me, when someone passionate explains it
