*******PLEASE, DON'T FORGET TO LEAVE A REFERENCE AFTER YOUR STAY. I WOULD GLADLY APPRECIATE IT!*******

CURRENT MISSION

To learn from other cultures, make new friends, travel, and learn new languages.

ABOUT ME

I used to live in Peru but recently moved to the US, where I could host sporadically. It would be easier for me to meet up, though, at least for now, but if you really need to stay, you may request so. I’m a polite, hospitable guy, interested in making good friends from around the world. I´m very friendly, outgoing, open-minded, appreciate the good things in life, such as the arts, nature and traveling.

AN IMPORTANT QUOTE IN MY LIFE:

"He who does not travel, who does not read,
who does not listen to music,
who does not find grace in himself,
she who does not find grace in herself,
dies slowly." ~ Pablo Neruda

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I want to help others, I want to enrich others and myself from others.

Interests

Medicine, playing the piano and the guitar, languages

The five things I could never do without and spend a lot of time thinking about:

Medicine
Classical music
The Piano
Traveling
The ocean

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS: Dead Souls (Gogol), Snow Country (Kawabata); Snow (Pamuk); Le Ritournelle de la Faim (Le Clezio); The Passport (Muller); The Way to Paradise (Vargas Llosa); The Hundred Secret Senses (Tang); The Pearl and Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck); Waiting for Godot (Beckett); The Prince and the Pauper (Twain); Master and Man and The Death of Ivan Ilich (L. Tolstoi); Beloved (Morrison); The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald); La Maquina de Follar (Bukowski); Marginal Voices (Ribeyro); The Tunnel (Sabato); and Death In Venice (Mann).

MOVIES: Contact, Mrs. Doubtfire, The Last Emperor, Her, Blue Jasmin, Amadeus, Clockwork Orange, Schindler's List, Inglorious Basterds, The Beat that my Heart Skipped, American Beauty, Vanilla Sky, Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon.

SHOWS: Scrubs, The Big Bang Theory, Dr. House, Friends, and Hannibal.

MUSIC: ROCK - Radiohead, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Chairlift, Dave Matthews Band, Cranberries, Queen, The Doors, Elton John, Billy Joel, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Grateful Death and AC/DC. JAZZ: Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Bill Evans, Eliane Elias, Herbie Hancock, Louis Armstrong and Nat King Cole. CLASSICAL: Horowitz, Richter, Gilels, Gould, Argerich, Perlman, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Tchaicovsky, Mussorgsky, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Schummann, Mendelssohn, Bach and Brahms, just to name a few.

FOOD: Peruvian, Arabic, Japanese, Austrian, Russian, Romanian, Thai, Indian, American.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've traveled to places far away against all odds.

Teach, Learn, Share

A place to stay, travel advice, some sight seeing, and a very good friendship.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My place, my life, show them around Lima, teach them what I know about.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Peru, United States