CURRENT MISSION

After more than 20 years living in Santa Tecla, now I´m back in my native place: ¡Santa Ana!

ABOUT ME

I am a 62 y. o. retired high school teacher living a quiet simple life. I'm always listening classical music or jazz, reading, writing, surfing Internet. I love the Ocean. I adapt to any circumstance, and never try to change the world or change people.Amado Espino's ProfileCreate Your Badge

PHILOSOPHY

Live happy, and let others live as they wish.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Would be a pleasure to drink a beer, and tour around Santa Ana with CSrs any age.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted many backpackers from many countries in my house since 1999 (first through stay4free). Almost all were young, clean, polite, well educated Europeans, North-Americans, Australians, and people from the neighboring Central American countries. This is the ideal people to travel Couchsurfing way, and is the vast majority. Always welcome.PLEASE BE A REAL TRAVELER: Ask other members to host you if you are of the few ones that just come to El Salvador to rest after traveling Mexico/Guatemala, or if you are a snow bird: My experience is these people fall in love with my 100 channels cable TV, and my Internet service, increasing my electricity bill, and shaping their bodies in my sofa.If you suffer any serious illness, please inform me previously, and be sure to bring, AND TAKE your medicines. Only bad hosting experiences I have had were with people that don't treat illnesses like hypertension, heart conditions, asthma,or AIDS for example, and they suffer sudden crisis far from their homes in other people's houses...I'm sad to say these few bad experiences were with people in their 40s or older. Serious health conditions are more probable among people older than 40, that's why I'm reluctant, think twice, and ask questions, before hosting old people. (Also, that's why I'm just a host, never a guest: I have Parkinson's early stage.) I don't admire people over 40 in search of extreme adventures like skydiving, backpacking through Latin America Che Guevara style, or learning Afro-Caribbean dances. By the way, if you are interested in Salsa dancing, better you go to New York or Miami, it's not a Latinamerican dance.Another bad experience was with a Spanish woman, and an American guy. The woman sent me a request from Spain to contact her with Salvadorean musicians, which I did it. A few days later I received a hosting request from the American guy, which I accepted. Then the woman e-mailed me again saying that they were related, and the contact with musicians was in fact for the American guy, who was ending one of these very common "peace on earth bike world tour" adventures. Then I realized the woman was trying to keep track of the American guy, when he told me they had traveled together for some days in South America, and as a result...¡the woman got pregnant!I was astonished, and angry, being involved with such irresponsible people, masking as humanistic ones, their perilous adventure having unsafe promiscous sex, maybe spreading diseases in poor countries.As a result I decided not to host sexual couples formed in the way while traveling.Short hair, shaved people preferred. (Long haired people: Please clean all your hairs before leaving, especially from bath&bed rooms.)SPORTS-HOOLIGANS, SEX TRAVELERS, DRUG ADDICTS, HEAVY DRINKERS, INTERNATIONAL VAGABONDS OR COUCH POTATOES ARE NOT WELCOME AT ALL.

Interests

Hosting. Reading. Writing...

• writing
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• beer
• drinking
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• jazz
• cycling
• backpacking
• surfing
• skydiving
• sports
• track and field
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

As a teenager in the late 1960s, and early 1970s years, one of my core formative influences were European movies of the 1950's, 60's & 70's: Kubrick. Bergman. Pasolini. Visconti. Fellini. Herzog. Buñuel. Antonioni. Chabrol.Music: Bach. Mozart. Albinoni. Boccherini. Classical music from Spain. Veracruz (Mexico) music. Jazz.Books:-European & Latin American XIX & XX centuries novels. -Poetry of all times, all languages, and all countries.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sorry, I don't want to climb the Everest, parachuting to celebrate I'm 60, nor dance salsa or quebradita before dying... I hate the too gringo movie "The Bucket List". Seems to me this question is born out of such mentality...
I am a modest, common man trying to live a quiet, simple life, apreciating simple things... Maybe reading the lives and writings of Jorge Luis Borges, Emily Dickinson or St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus count for amazing...?

Teach, Learn, Share

Words, Spanish language...I always have weird questions about languages and words.

Countries I’ve Visited

Finland, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

El Salvador

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