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  • 33 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning French, German, Russian
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Global Project Manager
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About Me

We live in an amazing world. Let's make it even better!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It all started in Latvia, in 2008, referenced by a Finnish guy who referred me to the website in a bar late night in Riga. Then came a handful of gatherings, parties, meetings, trips and hitchhiking... Wow! I have so many things to thank the CS community for!

Many 1st-time experiences: my first camp in Lithuania, my first surfing in Sweden, my first HitchHiking in Vilnius.... A truly life-changing process has started when I was still 16 thanks to this website.

When I moved back to Brazil I hosted some CSers while I was in Curitiba, and not long after went back to Europe backpacking and hitchhiking through the whole continent for about three months on a €10/day basis. Unfortunately not all nights I got hosted, having to sleep some of them with the local bum society, but many time if I had a bed to sleep was because I could rely on the CS community. A bit of a nomadic experience (during which I was facing the worst European winter in ages) but which taught me a lot about generosity.

Fast forward to 2018 and I am now living in Berlin, willing to pay forward all the love I got during the last 10 years from CouchSurfing :)

Interests

  • meditation
  • soccer
  • vipassana
  • road cycling

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

10 day Vipassana meditation retreat

1 year in Latvia

Skydiving in Brazil

3 month Eurotrip backpacking and hitchhiking on a veeery tight budget - 8 countries and 30 cities and lots of people met

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Germany, Latvia, United States

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