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Overview

  • 4 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning French, Italian
  • 49, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Marketing Manager for a well know TV network worldwide
  • BA in Advertising
  • From Guatemala
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Know more people, offer my knowledge and help about places I've been and obtain help from others!

ABOUT ME

Adventurous, intellectual sometimes, nature lover, good listener, good talker too, traveler... Uffff, I think is very difficult to describe myself, sometimes I am a bit extremist, I mean I like things that sometimes could be opposite among them.

I am honest and open minded, like to make jokes all the time, I try to live every moment even when I know it is not easy.

I love my profession, as a communicator I deal with a lot of disciplines, like PR, Ads and marketing. I am the Marketing Manager for a TV cable and internet network and being in charge of the corporate communication is something that excites me, there is always something new to do and to learn. I meet a lot of people from different backgrounds and that enriches my life.

I have an intellectual side, but also a very shallow one, a more relaxed phase of myself. Scuba Diving is one of my passions and that's why some years ago I decided to become a certificated instructor, I worked in the Caribbean an also in the Pacific. Diving next to sharks is the best!

I love art history and reading about it is one of my hobbies. I speak fluent Spanish and English; Italian at a conversational level and currently I am learning French, that I already speak at a basic level.

Anyway, it is difficult to describe myself, if you are interested just ask me.

PHILOSOPHY

CARPE DIEM
If I can't do well to others at least I won't do evil.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted some people from different countries and the general experiences has been very enriching.

I have not stayed at anybody's place yet, I mean, people I've met through CS, but hope to do it soon!

Interests

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  • arts
  • instructor
  • reading
  • tv
  • socializing
  • scuba diving
  • art history
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
• Radiohead
• Muse
• Depeche Mode
• Kings of Leon
• Tool
• The Beatles
• Metallica
• Beirut
• Jack Johnson
• Jazon Mraz
• The Chemical Brothers
• Heroes del Silencio
• Mikel Erenxtun
• David Gray
• Sarah Maclachlan
• Soda Stereo
• The Strokes
• Gipsy Kings
• Eros Ramazzotti
• The Killers
• Yann Tiersen
• Mecano

MOVIES
• White Hunter, Black Heart
• The Godfather I y II
• Closer
• Goodfellas
• Les Choristes
• Platoon
• Wallstreet
• Forrest Gump
• Philadelphia
• St. Elmo's Fire
• Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
• La Vita e Bella
• Amores Perros
• Heat
• Kill Bill I

FILM DIRECTORS
• Clint Eastwood
• Martin Scorcesse
• Oliver Stone
• Tim Burton

ACTORS/ACTRESSES
• Tom Hanks
• Clint Eastwood
• Robert De Niro
• Al Pacino
• Jack Nicholson
• Johnny Depp
• Nicole Kidman
• Robert Downey Jr.

TV SHOWS
• DEXTER
• Fraser
• Saturday Night Live
• Scrubs
• Friends
• Seinfield
• The Simpsons
• Coupling
• The Wonder Years
• The Single Guy

BOOKS
• The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
• Siddartha - Herman Hesse
• Cien Anios de Soledad - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
• El Retrato de Dorian Grey - Oscar Wilde
• Animal Dreams - Barbara Kingsolver
• Perfume - Patrick Suskind
• Le Petit Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Fhurer - Allan Prior

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Leave my comfortable and "secure" job and life in an office to become a professional diver, it was very scary to take that step, but I would do it again, it's been the most extreme experience I've lived. (swiming with sharks and jumping from a plane, it's not that great, hahaha!!)

Teach, Learn, Share

Use social networks to meet people who can give you tips about their own countries.

Don't pay too much attention to what others tell you about hazards of certain places, sometimes if you don't risk you lose the chance to experience incredible cities, towns or whole countries... of course, use your common sense but BE OPEN!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Poland, Puerto Rico, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras

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