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  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning Japanese, Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Finance guy
  • Bachelor on Business Administration at Universidade de Sa...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I want to discover amazing places, funny people and a bit more of myself.

ABOUT ME

I have a immense, short lived curiosity about everything. My goal is to possess someday what people call "focus"

PHILOSOPHY

Currently on the search of this question.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am a freshman here. First, I'd like to experience a couch surf, if it works, I'm very willing to host some funny people :)

Interests

I love cuddling dogs, binge-watch netflix, play/watch football, spend time with friends in a bar, gaming, learning stuff in general (from history to Arduino), sightseeing the city, taking a walk

  • dogs
  • arts
  • culture
  • table tennis
  • history
  • sightseeing
  • football
  • netflix

Music, Movies, and Books

So much to put in here...
Movies/TV Shows: Pixar Movies, American classics, European movies, Tarantino; Netflix, Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul, Game of Thrones

Music: Rock in general: Arctic Monkeys, Strokes, Beatles; Some jazz, like Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong; Samba music, like Cartola, Candeia, Chico Buarque

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent the last 8 years of my life working in the Brazilian startup scene, and some sprinkled travels. It was a great ride, now I want to have the time of my life with long-term travel :)

Some highlights:

- spending 5-day in San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, one of the most beautiful scenarios in the world (I vote for it for sure)! Still pending Salar de Uyuni, the biggest salt desert in the world.

- taking a 3-hour trek to see Laguna Esmeralda in Argentinian Patagonia. I was amazed to see such a place exists.

- pitching for 5 seconds my dumb idea to a high profile startup venture capitalist from Silicon Valley. It went nowere, he politely tossed it haha, but I was so romantic with the idea of a startup by then...

- after working like a horse in startups, I realized and appreciated so much those who can have a business open - it is no joke, and takes much more than focus and effort to make it work.

- it was like nothing, but meant a world to me: teaching some basic finance stuff to a poor community in Brazil for a day.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach portuguese, some Excel skills, brazilian culture stuff and general culture as well. Lately, I've been into the startup thing, so maybe I can share something useful.
I would like to improve my language skills, such as english, spanish and japanese. And also learn some new ones, like german and french.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I might try to share some of my knowledge of my culture and whatever I could learn through my life - I might try to fool you with my cuisine skills! Also I am very open to help you with whatever task you might need a hand

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Chile, France, Italy, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Japan

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