CURRENT MISSION

See the world!

ABOUT ME

I am a PhD student from Brazil, who has spent a lot of time in Africa, working with an endangered language. I've been to several countries and someday I'll visit Antartica.
Me and my husband are spending a year in Bloomington, IN.

visited 15 states (6.66%)Create your own visited map of The World or Like this? try: Landgeist

visited 10 states (37.0%)Create your own visited map of Brazil or Like this? try: Google Ransom Note

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am sort of a beginner at CS. I hope to have people stay over, and also plan to surf more.

Interests

Languages, nature (volcanoes, mountains, freezing things), backpacking, camping, trekking, cooking, travelling, bird watching... Ok, I'm a big nerd, who enjoys books, movies and music (oh, they have a section for that).

Music, Movies, and Books

B: Kawabata, Salinger, Jonathan Safran Foer, and several Brazilian writers.
Mo: Herzooooog!
Mu: Rock, African traditional music, classical.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Having visited several countries, I think it is sufficient to say that I have been the quite the itinerant. However if I had to choose a memory that defines me, it would be from my last trip to the Amazon forest. There, we visited a monumental cave hard to reach, access forbidden, imposing obscurity. Where some dared not to enter more than just a few meters, my fiancé and I gladly explored. Having nothing but a small flashlight, we walked for 15 minutes engulfed in pitch black darkness surrounded by spiders, bats and crickets. When we finally reached a place where we could not go any further, we stopped. And then suddenly, something hit me – not the silence, not an over-friendly bat – but the uncanny feeling of all the people from the past who had once trekked through that cave. I wished I could have met them, maybe even heard their voices… but I had to keep going.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you a language that only 30 people speak;
and great Brazilian recipes.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Equatorial Guinea, France, Japan, Paraguay, Portugal, Sao Tome and Principe, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sao Tome and Principe, United States