Hi and Bonjour!

I'm 43 years old and live in Leeds, England.

I love the French language and like to practise my French as often as I can. I have a degree in French, but as I graduated many years ago and have since been busy concentrating on other things in life, I haven't kept up with my French as much I would like.  I now want to focus on refreshing my command of the language and I want to reach as near to 100% fluency as I can! I'm eager to keep improving my written French, and corresponding with native speakers would be a great way to do this - I'd be pleased to help you with your English, too so we could have a good language exchange whilst chatting about anything and everything!

I love travelling, especially to the USA.  I would love to make friends with people from North America.  So far I have visited San Francisco, Chicago, New York, The Hamptons, Newport (Rhode Island) Boston and Cape Cod - all are incredible places, especially San Francisco where I would love to live one day!  Most recently, I have also visited Toronto, which I found to be another great city, and I would love to discover more of Canada.

I enjoy chatting about everything, exchanging ideas, thoughts and talking about life in general. I have quite diverse tastes in terms of films, books, music etc - depending on what mood I'm in I appreciate different genres!

What I'm not interested in is the whole drinking/bar scene - I'd much rather be making the most of life by doing different things and seeing what our amazing world has to offer, rather than sitting in a noisy bar drinking the night away!

I hope to hear from like-minded people very soon :-)

I'm interested in making friends with people all over the world, but especially from France, the USA and Canada, preferably around the same age as me (40-45)

I'm also keen to keep practising my French with native French speakers - I can help you with your English in return!

I have a degree in French but, since my studies were over long ago, I want to keep practising and reach as near to fluency as I can! I'm eager to keep improving my written French and corresponding with native speakers would be a great way to do this - I'd be pleased to help you with your English, too so we could have a good language exchange whilst chatting about anything and everything!

Reading, writing, travelling, day trips, cinema, music, walking, photography, crafts (especially crochet), architecture, French, American and Japanese culture...

Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Jann Arden, Paula Cole, Ruelle, Fleurie
Film scores
Ambient/relaxing music (including jazz and piano)

I like so many films from different genres, but to pick a few of my favourites: Titanic, Catch Me If You Can, Sleeping with the Enemy, Stephen King's It, Misery, The Hitcher, Amélie, Halloween, Final Destination, The Pursuit of Happyness, The Freedom Writers, The Next Three Days, Speed...

Gilmore Girls, Hart of Dixie, Revenge, Pretty Little Liars.
American TV shows from the 90s, such as Saved by the Bell, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
British comedies from the 90s, including One Foot in the Grave, Keeping up Appearances, Only Fools and Horses, The Vicar of Dibley.

I love reading novels, especially thrillers.
My favourite authors include James Patterson and Stephen King.

'If tomorrow is a gift, then why is today called the present?'
'A very little key will open a very big door.' (Charles Dickens)
'Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.' (Frank Sinatra)
'Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.' (Vincent Van Gogh)
'Change will not come if we wait for some person or some other time.  We are the ones we've been waiting for.  We are the change that we seek.' (Barack Obama)