I'm really curious about different cultures and I love to interact with people from other countries.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm on couchsurfing to get in touch with locals during my next trips. I'm going to Japan this October with two friends and we would like to know more about Japanese culture. One of the best ways to do that is making Japanese friends or becoming friends with Kyoto's expats! :)

Interests

I'm really interested in History, Arts, Food, Literature and Movies. I always want to get immerse in a country's culture when I travel abroad. Currently, I'm reading "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" by Harki Murakami in order to get in touch with Japanese Literature.

• arts
• culture
• books
• literature
• dining
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• fishing
• soccer
• history
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I think it's hard to define a taste for music or for arts in general, specailly when you are eclectic , so I prefer to just wrtie down some artists/movies that I like to give you a general idea of my tastes.

Music: Radiohead, Tinariwen, Fauve, Criolo, Led Zeppelin, Tom Jobim, Arcade Fire, Amadou & Mariam, Asa, Los Hermanos, Fela Kuti, Jorge Benjor, David Bowie, Modest Mouse, Rolling Stones, Wilco, The National, Wander Wildner, Travis, Oj Law, Secos & Molhados, Jeff Buckley, Vampire Wekeend etc...

Movies: Departures (Okuribito), Moonrise Kingdom, Incendies, Wild Tales, Waking Life, Into the Wild, Machuca, American Beauty, Estômago, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Little Miss Sunshine, Waltz with Bashir, Adaptation, City of God, Talk to Her, Taxi to the Dark Side, Goodbye Lenin, Oldboy etc...

Books: 'Atonement' and 'On Chesil Beach' (Ian McEwan), 1Q84 (Haruki Murakami), Crime & Punishment (Dostoievski), Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (David Foster Wallace), 'Tomorrow in the Battle Think of Me' (Javier Marías), Snow (Orhan Pamuk), 'Blood-Drenched Beard' (Daniel Galera), 'Eu Receberia as Piores Notícias dos seus Lindos Lábios (Marçal Aquino)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent one sabbatical month in a small beach village in the Northeast of Brazil, During this period I became friends with locals (I'm still in touch with many of them), played soccer at the beach, went fishing many kilometers off the coast with a professional fisherman in a small sailboat, read for the first time a book in French, ran 2km everyday at the beach

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love to talk about Brazilian History and Culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Macao, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russian Federation, South Africa, Switzerland, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Brazil, Switzerland