Current mission:
Meet nice people, enjoy life, keep relaxed and happy :-)

ABOUT ME
To travel is to live, to explore, to breathe, to be active, to be alive.

I'm not shy, and I enjoy very much meeting people and sharing travel/ life experiences.
People usually describes me as energetic and curious, outgoing and comunicative, and ...talkative!!! ;-)
I'm Learning to be honest with Myself, and (therfore) with Others.
I try to do my best for being kind & respectful: both when I surf and when I host.
I think it's always nice to enjoy the pleasure of being part of the human community :-)

I like to feel like a teenager: discovering the life as it is - right now! enjoying to feel a free spirit, meeting new stories and experiences... I usually learn from them. Having this goal, I like to speak, to listen, to observe, to meet, to discover & to try to understand people.
In the past I used to engage myself in many different activities (even too much: sometimes I'm still hyperactive...). Maturing more experience, I took pleasure dedicating a bit more to myself, to my life & pleasures: wow! :-)

I found very healthy for myself do'nt drink alcohol (anymore), do'nt smoke, and eat mostly vegetarian: I feel much better now.

PHILOSOPHY

- Friends are like the stars: you can't always see them, but they're always there...
- Los amigos son como las estrellas: no puedes verlas siempre, pero siempre estan ahì...
- Freunde sind wie Sterne: du kannst Sie nicht immer sehen, aber Sie sind immer da...
- Les amis sont comme les étoiles: tu ne peux pas toujours les voir, mais ils sont toujours la-bas...

> IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT!(=everything is possible) - Enzo Ferrari, Modena (my hometown!).

> Faber est suae quisque fortunae. [Sallustius]

> ...and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. [Nelson Mandela (?)]

> πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rei òs potamòs): Nothing is forever [Eraclitòs]

> Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass: It's about learning to dance in the rain... !!!

> Jeder kann mehr als er selber meint zu können.

> !Levantate cada manana pensando que algo maravilloso va a suceder!

> On ne vit q'une fois: et c'est maintenant! Leb das Leben jeder Tag. Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

> Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer (Igor, my CS friend).

> Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones that you did.

> If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together" (African proverb)

> Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come throught you but not from you" (K.Gibran - The Prophet)

ooo OOO ooo

It's never too late to learn. And to change ourselves!
By traveling we meet very different people, and we can share different cultures, personalities, places, ways of life: great opportunities to learn!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host and I surf, I like to join CS meetings in my town and outside, even during travels.
When I offer my couch, I try to share a bit of time with you...I always learn a lot!

To discover the world, to speak languages, to meet new people, to listen interesting lifestories, it's always great for me! CS events were a great part of my opening to the world...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I managed a Bed&Breakfast during more than 10 years, since 2001, just for the pleasure of hosting and meeting at my home (I could'nt travel that time, so I decided that World could come to me...)

On June 2011 I moved from Nonantola (countryside near Modena) to the "big" city: I closed the B&B, and I joined CS, the "open-minded-people" community for free hospitality :-)

Since now, I hosted:
> in year 2011
SEP, 1 CHIOTTO from Italy, 1 night
SEP, 9 ANDREA BORGIA from Italy, 2 nights (in Rimini)
SEP, 9 ONDREJ MORSKY+Jana from Tchech Rep., 2 nights (in Rimini)
SEP, 14 OLIVIER STEYAERT from Belgium, 2 nights
SEP, 16 MAGDA KOWALSKA from Poland, 2 nights
OCT, 7 FRANCESCO ZABINI+CARLO CASCIONE from Puglia, 1 nigth (in Rimini)
OCT, 8 FRANCESCA COLLA+DANIELE SCUERO from Italy, 1 nigth (in Rimini)
OCT, 20 ZUZANNA KUC+Michał Rogulski from Poland, 1 night
OCT, 28 ANNA MATZ+Adam Pelz from Poland, 2 nights
NOV, 5 BARBARA PIZZI from Italy, 1 night
NOV,19 ONDREJ MORSKY from Tchech Rep., CHARLI ALEXANDER-MARSH from England, 20 STEFANO GURGONE + ELENA ZANESI, from Bologna, 2 nights in Bruneck
NOV, 24 BERTRAND WAEBEN, from Belgium, 2 nights
DEC, 2 OLGA KIRYANOVA + DMITRY MYADZELETS, from russian Siberia, ELENA ZANESI, from Bologna, IVAN KOUZEL, from Belarus, 2 nights in Bruneck

> in year 2012
FEB, 29 JERZY GORSKI & BEATA Staszczak, from Poland, 3 nights
MARCH, 14 DALIA MOTIK from Lithuania & IZABELA RESZEWICZ, from Poland, 4 nights in Modena+Rimini
APRIL, 28: Maria Golembiewska, Anna Miecnikowska, Malgorzata Krowicka, Zaneta Bogdal & Iza Reszewicz from WROCLAW (PL), 8 nights in Bruneck (S

Interests

Education, history, psychology, literature & arts (mainly architecture!)... but also swimming, biking, trekking, skiing, horse riding, sailing, orienteering, climbing... and travelling!

PS: I'm crazy for Sauna, and "Aufgusse"...
PS2: I'm crazy for orange jam and orange bitter chocolate...

• arts
• literature
• dancing
• education
• breakfast
• chocolate
• vegetarian
• sauna
• walking
• drinking
• traveling
• socializing
• cycling
• sailing
• skiing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• teaching
• history
• languages
• psychology

Music, Movies, and Books

"I've done things you, people, wouldn't believe:
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate..."
[me, playing in "Blade Runner", 1982]

BOOKS (just a few)
A.de Saint Exupéry "Le Petit Prince"
Wayne W.Dyer "Your Erroneous Zones"
Klaus Gatterer "Schöne Welt, böse Leute - Kinderheit in Südtirol"
N.Branden "Six pillars of Self-Esteem"
R.Re "Leader di te stesso"
H.Poswiatowska "Opowiesc dla przyjaciela"
P.Coelho "Manual do guerreiro da luz"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing travelling?
- Walking on the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe, in the dry season of Zambezi river...
- Avoiding ice cracks on the Lys glacier (CH) at 4200m during a snow storm, climbing Mount Rosa to reach Queen Margherita mountainhut on the top at 4550m...
- Being CS hosted in Venice - old town- having breakfast & dinner on a wonderful roof terrace with wiew on SanMarco TowerBell (see references...)
- and many others...

During my crazy life? Falling in love with Monika (really amazing!) ..but was once upon a time!

Daily? Wake up every morning and start to play once more the game of life...

Teach, Learn, Share

It's up to you, to get what you need, from my quite rich past life... I usually open my life to people I meet: sharing time is the best way to learn (and teach) about life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, San Marino, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Germany, Italy, Poland

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