My name is Alberto, I was born in a city called Padova, north east of Italy in 1989. My father is a psychiatrist and my mom a French teacher, I have a little sister who's now mysteriously grown as much as to become a college student of medicine, in Italy. After graduating from high school I moved to NYC to study theater and after graduating, four years later, I felt a compelling urge to leave the city and its speed and to explore the rest of the states. I first went to Tennessee where I was welcomed and hosted by a christian family in Erwin, I did odd jobs for the church community for two weeks before I decided I was ready to start hiking the Appalachian trail toward south, I travelled by myself most of the time and, for the first time, I was able to immerse into silence and a simple way of living. It took me about 3 months to get to the trailhead in Georgia, as I was hiking with no schedule or timeline. After that I hitch hiked my way up to Colorado, through Denver, up to Estes Park, where I worked in a concrete company for a week before adventuring into crossing the Rocky mountains national Park from east to west. I arrived in a little, tiny town called Grand Lake, where I ended up finding good friends, a restaurant Job, and staying for about four months. I then moved on to visit a friend in California and after a month realized I was missing the mountains and went back to Colorado. I spent a month in Boulder where I lived with an astrologer and six wolfs. I left that house four days ago and I have been in Denver since then.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have been traveling for about a year, and have been a guest in many places, without ever joining this site. I was advised to join this web community by many people and I finally decided to do it. I am currently without funds and would love to find a place to stay throughout the storm. Willing to give back anyway it's needed.

Interests

I like theater, movies, reading, skiing, hiking, playing with children, dogs, I poorly play the guitar and piano and sing. I love american comedy and stand up comedians.
I am very interested in humans, our bodies, how we function and how we interact with each other.

• dogs
• singing
• theater
• acting
• cooking
• chocolate
• meditation
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• bouldering
• guitar
• piano
• hiking
• skiing
• teaching
• medicine
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Anything Jazz or Swing from the 40's to 60's, Dean Martin, Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Patty Page, Jo Stafford ecc..
I love Lou Reed, Nina Simone.
Classical music: Chopin
Folk music: Leonard Cohen

Favorite movie directors:
Elia Kazan, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steve Mc Queen, Sofia Coppola, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky.
Favorite Playwrights:
Tennessee Williams, Eugene O'neill, Beckett, Pinter, William Inge.
Best movie I've seen in the past few years:
The Master by P. T. Anderson

Favorite Writers: Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Thomas Mann, Kafka, Salinger.
Favorite Book: The magic mountain.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once ate 15 pounds of chocolate in less than two hours :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am willing to help anyway it's needed: from cleaning the house, to cooking an original Italian meal.
While in Boulder I was invited to take a workshop where I was trained to become a heart thread practitioner, it's a simple practice of human contact/meditation and I would be more than happy to share the practice and give sessions in return for hospitality.
I can entertain with travel stories and acting stories and a bunch more.
But mainly anything that is needed.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, England, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Italy, United States