CURRENT MISSION

To try and understand the world and the people in it a little better.

ABOUT ME

My name is Bruno and I´m 26 years old. I love to travel and see different places and people. My ideal life would be to make money while traveling and contributing somehow to a better world for all.
I´m currently working at Leiden University researching legal systems in developing countries. Also I've set up a website with video-interviews on war and peace: www.warandpeacetalk.com !

PHILOSOPHY

I live my life because I believe that the world can be changed for the better and that I can make a contribution in this. I don´t believe in God, but I do find the ideas and wisdom behind many of the worlds religions valuable. I am grateful for my freedom, being raised in a country where I have not known war, poverty or repression. Hopefully, I can help to promote freedom for other people around the world as well.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I like the big idea of creating a more interconnected earth, making cities more cheaply accesible and the very free thing it´s got about it.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Geneva: had a great time with great hosts who surprised us with a huge pile of pancakes in the morning!
St. Petersburg: overwhelming city in which two great couchsurf hosts helped us to discover the nice places.
Estonia: beautiful time with some of the most original people I'll ever get to meet.
Tbilisi: gorgeous country, cool city, and delicious but headache-giving chacha!
Amsterdam: I have hosted people from many different places and I'll try to keep doing so in the future!

Interests

I like playing guitar, reading, windsurfing, studying, traveling, spending time with friends, going out, listening to good music and seeing good films.

• horses
• flying
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• windsurfing
• swimming
• law
• religion
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Magnolia, Lunacy, Fantastic Mr Fox, Darjeeling Limited, No Country For Old Men, Habla con Ella, Requiem for a Dream, American Beauty, Four Elements, lots of others. I like spanish cinema and worked at several filmfestivals to see the different movies that are made worldwide.
Dylan, hendrix, nick drake, ben harper, janis joplin, nina simone, bach, calexico, leonard cohen, neil young, tom waits, john martyn, radiohead, arctic monkeys, django reinhard, miles davis, john lee hooker, eric dolphy, rage against the machine, m. ward, devendra banhart, the doors, 2pac.
Books; Kafka, Tolstoj, Dostojevski, Turgenev, but also Zadie Smith, Salinger, Kerouac.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mongolia. It was the most heavenly place I´ve ever seen. No people, buildings, just the wind, the grass, the hills, some horses and a stream.
Swimming with dolphins, hanging on to a rope behind a fishersboat neir Bandaneira.
Flying with a six-seet missionaryplane over Papua´s vast tropical forests.
Observing elections in South Kordofan.

Teach, Learn, Share

It´s better to light a candle then to curse darkness.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Georgia, India, Mongolia, Morocco, Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Indonesia, Kosovo, Netherlands, Sudan

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