CURRENT MISSION

My challenge is to host people from 40 different nacionalities, go to more than 40 brazilian cities and make more than 400 new friends before i turn 25

ABOUT ME

I have been in the military, lived in France, in the US, i was/am a (physics/math) teacher, i had visited a bunch of contries in europe and known lots of people, but I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For! (thanks Bono!).
I am very easy going when i am hanging out, and ate teh same time very serious about serious stuff (school, work, family...)
So, why don't you come and help me find who i am know!

I wrote it in English so almost everyone would be able to understand, but sorry about the faults.

"What i became after my interchange in France"

A little more than 1 month ago the adventure ended. After almost 2 years in France i finally got back to Rio.

I always thought that the day i would come back to Brazil would be vary sad you know, it would feel like the end of a dream, coming back to the real life.

This day arrived, i said goodbye to everyone i met during those 21 months, i said "au revoir" to them, but i am sure that most of them will never see me again, fucking french language...

Indeed this day was sad, but not even close to how i imagined it would be. I didn't feel like abandoning France and the people that i knew there, i felt like going to Rio to spend some time and make my internship. I arrived at my parents' house and realized i didn't feel like being home anymore. of course i feel comfortable there, but i can't say it's my home anymore.

During this last weekend i thought about all this and tried to figure out what was going on with me, i tried to understand those last 2 years and find in which direction i was supposed to navigate now.

I concluded that the goodbye was less painful because i learned to let it go, even those amazing people that made my interchange period the best time of my life, even they have to go sometime and make somebody else's life amazing as well.

The reason why i don't really "feel at home" at home is that i don't have a home anymore, i have a bunch of them: Rio, Lyon, Nantes, Angra, Idaho Springs, all the places where i lived, and even those where i spent only a few, but legendary and unforgettable days: Europe!

I became a better person, i tried to learn only the good things i saw on other people. My friends now say that i am a little too French, but what i am today is a mix of cultures, most of it french maybe (mostly thanks to all the V4 residents and their weird manners like getting drunk and/or naked in public every day hahahahahaha) but i am sure that i carry something of everyone i met, at least one characteristic of each nationality that i had contact with.

i have to admit that all this enlightenment came to me after i watched Fight Club for the Nth time and spent a few hours thinking about this quote:

"If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?"

maybe it's all bullshit but it made me think, get my head into place and even write this huge text.

Thanks everyone who made part of my adventure, being close of far away, staying with me for 21 months or 21 hours, you who only shared some beers with me and you who shared trips, ideas and/dreams.

Thanks to every each one of you i woke up at different times, at several different places, always as a different person, with the same core, but always getting better, thankfully to all of you.

Adrian Cardoso.

PHILOSOPHY

Play hard, Work harder!!!

Give me a woman who truly loves beer and I will conquer the world.
-Kaiser Wilhelm

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I wanna host, surf, help with info and show you my city (and maybe others).

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Interests

Travelling, boats, languages, sports, beer(!),

• beer
• clubbing
• traveling
• sports
• teaching
• languages
• mathematics
• physics

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The 2 years that i spent in France "studying"! Best time of my life for sure, because of all the friends i met, the trips we made together.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Chile, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, United States