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  • 30 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Catalan, Valencian, French, Italian, Portuguese
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Marketing Manager at Zonegreen UK, MSc Telecommunications...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

“Be good to each other and the strongest you are the better you have to be”

ABOUT ME

I was born In Huelva a little town in South West Spain, studied engineering in Seville, had a gap year in Barcelona where I worked as a clown,as a florists,as a sound technician,made music and learn a lot about politics, history, literature. After a Year back in Seville when I started hosting people in my couch I discovered couchsurfing. I moved to Budapest for an Erasmus year, where I cut my teeth on CouchS , learning new cultures, different ways of thinking and how to share other views and complement them with my own ones.. I got into the CS community there and I met great people, surfing, hosting, travelling.

After Budapest I moved to Rio de Janeiro for 7 months, where I wrote I miniPHd in Electronic Engineering and made a couple of subjects...fell in love with South America particularly with Brazil, music, food, people.. I am quite interested in keeping my Portuguese updated. Fala Gringo!!

Finally, I graduated and I decided to move Sheffield: The Little Berlin.. Is literary the best place in the world and I am so happy here. At my place we host people frequently, but is difficult to deal with all the CS request specially for the Doc and Tramlines Festival...sometimes I think about getting a place with a huge garde to let CSers put their tents on it! Here I work as a Marketing Manager for Safety Railway Company (I love trains in general is one of the things I am passionate about) volunteer with Sheffield Renewables and I try to read and make music as much as possible, well being creative, play hard,try to love everything I do..occasionaly crush in a good film..you know (bla,bla,bla) 8)

PHILOSOPHY

Be Good TO each other. The strongest you are the better you have to be.

Interests

Food ..We cook delicious Vegan FoodMusic (here the myspace of my band The Mother Folkers

http://themotherfolkersmusic.bandcamp.com/track/stella-2

http://www.myspace.com/musicarocPoetry: (I have written a couple of books..available on request!)Activism: Peer Two Peer P2P Charity Projecthttp://personalngo.webs.comNow concentrating in Running with the Robin Hood Runners from time to timeWrite songs,Picasso,Nicanor Parra,Lorca,Dylan,Cervantes,Cohen, and My Mother!! Beer..mmm Cruzcampo..XX Samuel Smiths Milds, Dreher...Sports..Is there anyone in Sheffield who wants to play tennis? (I´m a climber and Beachvolley Player)

  • culture
  • books
  • literature
  • poetry
  • festivals
  • dining
  • cooking
  • beer
  • vegan
  • running
  • politics
  • traveling
  • music
  • surfing
  • sports
  • tennis
  • track and field
  • engineering
  • history
  • study abroad
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

--Some Movies (Being John Malkovich, Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind,Cinema Paradiso, Blue Velvet, Exils, Pulp Fiction,Down By law,Breaking Waves,Dead Man,Arizona Dream,Barton Fink...)

--Some Music (The Microphones(Mount Eerie), Elliot Smith,Bob Dylan,Caetano Veloso,Nick Cave,Devendra Banhart,Johnny Cash,Manu Chao,Serge Gainsbourg,The Beatles,David Bowie,Enrique Morente,Tom Waits,CAN,)

http://www.lastfm.es/user/AlexRocMusic

--Some Books(Heart of Darkness(Conrad),Everything that I have found by Roberto Bolaños, Animalario, Cortazar,Blade Runner(Philip k dick) Poems and antipoems (Nicanor Parra), Poet in New York (Lorca) The Process (Kafka)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Niagara Falls,Danube River,Atlantic Sea,Gudalquivir River,Iguazu Falls (Water)
-Belgrade,Barcelona,Budapest,Madrid,London,Edimburgh,Sevilla,RIo de Janeiro(Land)
-Love and Friendship (Fire)
-Music,Poetry,Trains,Tomatos (Air)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to create a Pop Chorus in five minutes.

I´d like to learn History,Phylosophy(it´s written like that?), culture...I´d like to recupere my french,and improve my Brazilian Portugese and my brazilian music culture..

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, France, Ireland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Hungary, Spain, United Kingdom

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