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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Learn
ABOUT ME
I'm a little bit of everything, like most of us.. Depends on the situation. Try not to get bored and find new things to do and new people to meet.
I adapt and click pretty easily I guess...
PHILOSOPHY
Shut up and Listen! It will make you smarter.
I can't find another way to say it, but I love the moments when we understand how small we are and how much there is yet to be discovered in this life.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I can show people the true face of My Country. Not out of Patriotism, but to fight ignorance. And Trust me, I don't have anything to hide.
Interests
Music! I live for Music, any kind, as long as it's made with an artist's heart.
I've been studying and creating music for 10 years.
I really appreciate creativity, wether in art, business or social movements.
I have always been amazed by different cultures, different scenes and trends around the world. I'm interested in knowing what's happening in every place that I go, from everyday routines to underground happenings. Basically to taste the place. I don't have another word for that.. :P
Fascinated by discovering the many different ways of life that people choose to live, or not choose to live by, soaking in and learning from different events and situations.
What would life be like if we only new one way to live it?..
- arts
- clubbing
- traveling
- music
- canoeing
- camping
- hunting
- business
- tourism
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
One time, on band camp..... Not really :P
I ended up Traveling to Montenegro without knowing anything about it.. Just saw a pic on Google Earth by mistake while planning a trip to Berlin, and bought a ticket to Budva, the city in which the pic I saw was taken. It was a real vacation. I didn't know anything about that region, the people didn't speak english, and that just led me to explore everything by myself. It was a bit more challenging than just staying in a hotel or asking the local cab driver to take you to the biggest club. Very different from going to a big city where you can reach everything very easily.
Right..I don't know if this is something that i did, but it's certainly amazing... When I was 6 years old, on a family trip to the Amazon region in Venezuela, we got into an indian village, of one of the last cannibal tribes on Earth. I remember seeing kids dragging a huge sack with smoked monkeys in it. They we're just my size. The little kids started giggling around and our tour guide told us they were laughing because me and my sister looked like those smoked monkeys and it wouldn't be so hard to smoke us too due to our similar size and shape. I just took it as a fact, but my mom started to get nervous, and my dad, instead of heading towards the river, where our canoe was waiting, he wanted us to stand by the sack and take a picture. At the same time, he was interested in buying some arrows and other hand built weapons and hunting tools. Suddenly, we heared a group of locals yelling and arguing with the chief. they didn't like the idea of us standing in their territory and just wandering arround. Some of them had never even seen a white man before. Things started getting hotter and hotter, and we were totally surrounded by the villagers, who got closer and closer to us by the minute. Lucky I was only 6 and didn't know exactly what was going on (we walked very slowly towards the river following our tour guide, while being followed and surrounded by the whole village) but if that happened today, I would have a heart attack right on the spot and become their dinner. Anyway, I might still have the pics that my dad took... He says that it was worth it...
What I've Seen?... Sunsets, Volcanoes, Tribal Cultures, People, Colors, Landscapes, Art...
Teach, Learn, Share
Do What Sponges Do!
Life suddenly will become something that is a million times bigger than you imagined.
Countries I’ve Visited
Aruba, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Montenegro, Netherlands, Turkey, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Guatemala, Israel, Peru, Venezuela