CURRENT MISSION

Be a better person and useful to people and to the planet!!!

ABOUT ME

I am shy, but very friendly. I'm honest and love being with people, but I appreciate sometime alone as well...

I am a country girl. It`s true, I`ve tried to hide this for a long time, but now I say it out loud. :-)) But big cities amazes me and love to visit them. I didn`t travel as much as wished when I was a child, so now I taking some time to fix this issue.

Since march 2009 I left my hometown (Belem) and stayed with my sister in Sao Paulo. I lived there until august when I was preparing myself to travel to Saint Vincent and the Grenedines to stay for six months to participate in a training to come to work as a volunteer in Africa. So after 29 years, I left Brazil for the first time OMG!!!
Six months in the Caribbean were, well, I already said: caribbean!! Amazing, lovely moments, sunsets, sea, waterfalls... Do I need to tell more? Well maybe when we meet each other...

Then I went to Mozambique, even better, to Inhambane, a small town next to Tofo (if you google this four letters word you will know what I`m talking about), that surprised me everyday for the kind locals and the wonders of its landscapes...

I'm still travelling until august, so I can't host anyone. But I'm looking forward to!! :-))

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If you speak Portuguese, please, check my blog to get know me better: isabelaqoliveira.blogspot.com
If you don't speak Portuguese, you may use some online translator, be tolerant with the atrocities it will definetely do to my texts...
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PHILOSOPHY

Treat others as you would like to be treated.

Laugh at yourself is the best way of being a better person.

"É melhor vencermos a nós mesmos, do que ao mundo". Sartre

"Mas eu desconfio que a única pessoa livre, realmente livre, é a que não tem medo do ridículo". Luis F. Veríssimo

"É o mesmo sol que derrete a cera e seca a argila". Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm feeling more and more envolved since I registered myself, having a feeling that the world can be a big family =))) I didn't surf or host yet, but I can't wait to finally do it!
Unfortunately because I'm travelling and my apartament is rented out, I can`t offer a couch right now. But as soon as I get back, this will definetly change!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Close to zero. Just a roommate hosted someone in our house once in Inhambane. And I've been reading the entire site!!

Interests

I love to read and write. Travel, work close to people always. Hiking, snorkelling, diving. Poetry and music. Fell in love with scuba diving in Mozambique.

When I travel I love to talk to locals and know the history, what they eat, their everyday lives, their beliefs...

• poetry
• dining
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• hiking
• scuba diving
• history
• languages
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Biographies, historicals novels, poetry and others.

World music, Musica popular brasileira (MPB), jazz, rock and some blues.

Forest Gump is my favorite. Drama, comedy, thriller (some), romance (some).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Always having new and amazing suprises...
But ok:
One day in Saint Vincent I was coming back from an orphanage and this visit brought me so down that I had trouble to speak... When I was on the way home I saw this gorgeous sunset on the caribbean sea, I had tears in my eyes... for some reason my attention went to the opposite side of the sunset and then I saw the big and yellow full moon rising at the horizon. So I smilled with bliss for the oportunity to watch a sunset on the sea and full moon rising at the same time on the valley!

Teach, Learn, Share

Brazilian food, caipirinha, mojitos, batida, portuguese...

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, France, Guyana, Mozambique, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, South Africa, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Mozambique, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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