CURRENT MISSION

Be part of the human evolution...

ABOUT ME

Demanding question!
Can I describe myself through twenty movies?

"Nostalgia de la luz", by Patricio Guzman;
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", by Milos Forman;
"The Graduate", by Mike Nichols;
"Taxi Driver", by Martin Scorsese;
"Tracks", by John Curran;
"Comizi d'amore", by Pier Paolo Pasolini;
"Below Sea Level", by Gianfranco Rosi;
"Grizzly Man", by Werner Herzog;
"Annie Hall", by Woody Allen;
"Nuovomondo", by Emanuele Crialese;
"Xingu", by Cao Hamburger;
"War Dance", by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix;
"The Shawshank Redemption", by Frank Darabont;
"One Mile Above", by Du Jiayi;
"The Human Scale", by Andreas Dalsgaard;
"Encounters at the End of the World", by W. Herzog;
"Yi Yi: A One and a Two", by Edward Yang;
"Into the Wild", by Sean Penn;
"The Shining", by Stanley Kubrick;
"Il Postino", by Michael Radford.

PHILOSOPHY

A few years ago I have read this marvellous open letter to Obama written by Silvano Agosti, an Italian writer and film director...

"Dear Obama,
do you really know what People need and desire?
Very simple: they are craving for being
Free to live: BUT THEY CAN'T BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO WORK ALL THE TIME;
Free to be themselves: BUT THEY CAN'T BECAUSE THEY ARE HOMOLOGATED THROUGH SCHOOL AND NORMS;
Free to have a house: BUT THEY CAN'T BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO DEPEND FROM ALL SORT OF OBLIGATIONS;
Free to create: BUT THEY CAN'T BECAUSE THEY LOST ANY INTERIOR TIME AND MOOD;
Free to love: BUT THEY CAN'T BECAUSE THEY ARE OBLIGED TO OFFER LOVE ONLY WITH THEIR OWN FAMILY;
Free to trust You: BUT THEY CAN'T BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT THE POWER TO DO WHAT YOU PROMISE;
Free to know in depth WHO THEY ARE AND TO KNOW THE BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE.

The human being is after all the most perfect masterpiece that Nature made in five billion years.
Without all this people instead of living only exist
and they are like a masterpiece painted by LEONARDO DA VINCI, abandoned somewhere in the dust.
If you want to be, not only reelected, but also to be loved for ever, this is the right path."

Silvano

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Looking for nice people in Finland!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

A long story of encounters started in London...

Interests

Walking anywhere, observing, listening, documentary films, film festivals, geography, food, talking with interesting people, riding a bicycle, reading, jogging, football but not business-ball, living without obligations...

• documentaries
• film festivals
• dining
• vegetarian
• walking
• movies
• reading
• cycling
• soccer
• geography
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

I love cinema! Unfortunately I don't have a good knowledge about music but I'd like to deepen the story of jazz, blues and tango.

My favourite books are "Il semplice oblio" by Silvano Agosti, "Eloge de la bicyclette" by Marc Auge'" and "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- More than 1300 km by bike from the North to the South of Italy in two weeks, without training.
- The River Thames from Westminster to Hampton Court.
- The Night Markets in Taiwan.
- The magic box at "Lentil as Anything", four "pay as you feel" vegetarian restaurants in Melbourne.
- Hitchhiking through the Nullarbor Plain.
- The Candlelight Movement in Gwanghwamun Square.
- One year backpacking along the Silk Road from the Yellow Sea to the Adriatic overland.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teaching reminds me my depressed school teachers, learning the simplicity of life, sharing the joy of brotherhood...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Serenity

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cook Islands, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macao, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Norway, Oman, Poland, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Scotland, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tonga, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, England, Finland, Italy, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan