CURRENT MISSION

Where there is a will, there is a path

ABOUT ME

I live with two friends for about sixteen month, in a little town next to Paris. I like sports, jazz music, books, comics, writing for academic reviews as I try to be promoted as an University Lecturer. I finished my PhD in 2008 - Viva !

If you read French, you can read some posts from my blog there : http://gaelvilleneuve.blogspot.fr. I try to discuss the role of the media in nowadays society, using some of the things I discovered during my PhD and after. Some posts are quite large, sorry for it : I sometimes just don't know how to end a reflection. But it doesn't mean I am an awful chatterbox - I believe I know how to be silent.

If you want to sleep at my place, your message way include this sentence : Now let your soul run the whole gamut of the wondrous scale. It's a verse of the poem Deep in the Quiet Wood from James Weldon Johnson. So I will know you read my text, and you didn't only try me as a random couch.

PHILOSOPHY

When I feel like it, I try. When I don't like it, I stop.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like travels, but don't really like hotels. When I travel abroad, I like to meet people who tell me about the place : tourism can be really boring.
I invited two italian adults at my home during the World SOcial FOrum (St Denis) in 2004. It was 6 days long, and it was really interesting.
I live really close to Paris, and I know that people I will meet during my trips will probably interested in sleeping at my home - and this will be a real pleasure.
Please not I have no key left for you, so you will probably need to come to my house, and leave it, at the same time as me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Politeness, awareness, kindness.
Nobody's perfect, problem shall happen. What's the big deal ? Let's talk, we're part here for it after all .)

Interests

Jazz music
Litterature
Pop
Paintings
Architecture
Rock music
Newspapers
Friendship

Music, Movies, and Books

Cosmopolis, Do DeLillo
I need more, Iggy Pop
La légitimité démocratique, Pierre Rosanvallon
Outsiders, Howard Becker
Dogana et Santa Maria della Salute, Turner
My funny valentine, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Le temps des erreurs, Mohammed Choukri
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
Medusa, Caravaggio

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1°Passing two weeks in Belgrade
2°Passing two weeks in Tahiti
3°Living in Paris for 15 years (try just one week... ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

Guitar, Sociology, Communication, French.

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Canada, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France

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