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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Don't dream it - be it
ABOUT ME
I spent the first 27 years of my life in Italy, and then decided to leave my home, mostly for boredom. When I saw Edinburgh I had no doubt it would have been my new place, to which I moved in 2009. Life then took me to the sunny South of England.
I studied Engineering in Milan, and I was about to regret it when I found I field which I quite like. I now work in the Renewable Energies, a good job that gives me the possibility of travelling a lot to cool places.
I am planning to do this job for few more years, when I will have a planned mid life crisis and I will decide to move to a poor country, maybe teaching English to children.
I love socialising, travelling, exploring new cultures and food, and everything related to renewable energies, sustainable development or fair trading. This is well compensated by my wild side, I love to hang out with friends and I am generally the last one to leave parties.
PHILOSOPHY
We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity
Interests
I adore sports, reading, writing, movies...and learning new languages. I absolutely love food and sleeping.
Music, Movies, and Books
Music:
reggae, ska, balkan, punk, metal...generally everything off the mainstream
Best books ever:
- The Master And Margarita (M. Bulgakov)
- The Power of One (B. Courtenay)
- A Confederacy of Dunces (J. K. Toole)
- Un Uomo (O. Fallaci)
Best movies ever:
- Everything is illuminated
- Inglorious Basterds
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Into the wild
- Carlito's Way
- Dr Zhivago
- Authumn Marathon
- Y tu mama tambien
- City of God
- Annie Hall
- 500 days of summer
- Clerks
- Sideways
- Tucker and Dale vs Evil
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
In August 2012 I travelled alone by train from Vladivostok to Moscow along the Transiberian Railway!
I stopped along the way and always been hosted by CouchSurfers.
Emotions, country and people I will always carry in my heart! Best trip of my life!!!!!
Teach, Learn, Share
I am studying Russian at the moment...such a difficult language and I need lots of consistency to learn it.
Next year I will start teaching English to adult beginners at an evening school.
Countries I’ve Visited
Albania, Angola, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Cameroon, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Kenya, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia
Countries I’ve Lived In
Albania, Italy, Kenya, United Kingdom