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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, German, Italian, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified), French
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Postdoc
  • PhD in Biotechnology
  • From Apulia, Italy
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

be the hole in a flute that the Life's breath moves through

ABOUT ME

Mostly I've been told to be a chilled and sociable person who really enjoys harmony and the little pleasures of life.
I like sharing opinions, tastes and ideas. I think I'm pretty open-minded and adapt myself quite well in the most diverse situations.

PHILOSOPHY

"Consider well the seed that gave you birth: you were not made to live your lives as brutes, but to be followers of virtue and knowledge." Inferno, Canto XXVI: Ulysses

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Not yet initiate.

Interests

  • culture
  • architecture
  • photography
  • cooking
  • hiking
  • soccer
  • anthropology
  • astronomy
  • history
  • languages
  • playing guitar
  • biotechnology
  • kundalini yoga

Music, Movies, and Books

Cinema: Kubrick, W. Allen, Jeunet, Fatih Akin, Coen brothers, italian neorealism, german expressionism. Love mostly tragicomic, noir and bittersweet movies.

Music: I pretty much listen to everything which is original. My favourite genres are rock and electro.

Readings: to tickle my fantasy I'd read Wilde, Murakami and Kafka. To teach myself about life I'd choose Bertrand Russell, Oliver Sacks, Tiziano Terzani and Eckhart Tolle.

Furthermore, I like essays about politics, sociology, psychology and science (especially quantum physics).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

When, as a child, I recognize my first constellation in the sky, the Orion.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach stars hopping (in the sky with diamonds) and how to cook a good risotto or pizza :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Montenegro, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Italy

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