CURRENT MISSION

Balance filmmaking with family, leisure and traveling as much as possible to places where I have friends I want to see

ABOUT ME

I have the greatest passion for writing, music and film production. I love spending time with my brothers, sisters, friends, nieces, and nephew when I´m in Uruguay; I travel a lot for work and what not

PHILOSOPHY

Learning something from every single human being

My country´s president did express some of my philosophies recently during the Environmental Summit in Rio.
I translated the speech on my blog:
http://thewanderlife.com/human-happiness-and-the-environment-address-by-uruguayan-president-jose-mujica-at-rio-20-summit/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am actually not big on meeting people through the Internet, not specially, but my friend Ana signed us up for CS when we were living together and I have to say every experience I have had was positive. The best was when I went to shoot my film in Finland and made some lifelong friends through CS.
Recently, I have discovered that I do enjoy being a sort of tour guide, because I love my city and my country, I am passionate about its music and culture and it brings me joy to share that with people who appreciate it.
I am also interested in practising my German and my Greek, my German because it´s rusty and my Greek because I just picked it up on very short trips to Greece but I just love it.
I wouldn´t mind practising my Armenian either.

As for being hosted, I generally travel to places where I have friends, in order to spend time with them, so, I rarely seek a couch, but I just might, sometime, I guess, you never know.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

here is something on my experience being hosted in Finland

http://thewanderlife.com/couchsurfing-filmmaking-in-finland-with-tanja%c2%b4s-family/

I have hosted several travelers in Uruguay.

Interests

FILM JAZZ WORLD MUSIC, traditional music from every corner of the Earth

• culture
• writing
• film making
• environment
• traveling
• socializing
• blogging
• music
• jazz
• world music
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Vero: LE GRAND BLEU, THE PROFESSIONAL, BREAKING THE WAVES, SEINFELD, INDEPENDENT FILMS
Currently in a Japanese novel sort of mood but I love the classics, poets like Keats and his friends, Graham Swift, Orwell, Beckett, CORTAZAR, ONETTI, too much to mention
Music Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Smashing Pumpkins, EDUARDO MATEO, SPINETTA, way too many to mention

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have done and seen many beautiful things, but the most meaningful ones always have to do with sharing special moments with people I love.

Teach, Learn, Share

I enjoy mentoring young aspiring musicians, writers & filmmakers.
I like to learn about different cultures, specially music from all over the world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Haiti, Italy, Jamaica, Lithuania, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Russian Federation, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Spain, United States, Uruguay