This summer, a great Couchsurfing Collective was held in Montreal, Quebec. People came from all over the world to share and participate in the growth of an incredible project. The Collective stayed in an appartment of St-Denis street near of Rosemont : a few blocks from our own registered office!

With our arrival in the area of Perez Zeledon, fertile valley in the south of the capital San Jose, in the heart of Costa Rica, it was imperative for Yan, new esperantist since less than a year, to benefit from new international contacts and to use for the first time in appropriate context the language practiced with enthusiasm (the annual booklet of the UEA - Universala Esperanto-Asocio - is very useful to contact of esperantists everywhere on planet).

The english language, a money-making ressource

Nowadays, english has become the most widely used second language in the world. During my travels through many countries in different continents, I noticed that many people were interested in learning the american language. To my question "why", almost all of them had to answer that it wasn't because they like to learn about occidental culture, it wasn't also because they are keen of linguistics but only because they could use it to earn more money and make a living. We can easily understand this phenomenon when we look at the TV programs : everything is beautiful, perfect, majestic. This "comfort to attain" wouldn't even be imaginable for these distant people without media... Quikly, means to increase hapiness begin to lack and it seems only money and material can raise our quality of life.