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Overview

  • 23 references 13 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning Norwegian, Spanish
  • 43, Female
  • Member since 2005
  • Nurse
  • University
  • From Lisbon
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

There's only one thing for certain. Everything changes.

ABOUT ME

"All we have is this moment, right here, right now. The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today. So, be here now."

PHILOSOPHY

"There's only one thing for certain. Everything changes"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Since 2005 I met many couchsurfers but as I was living with my parents I couldn't host anyone so I used to go out for a drink and for a walk in the city.
In April 2010 I got my own flat and started hosting people...great experience!
Since March 2011 I'm living with my boyfriend and we slowed down a little but we still host people from all over the world and learning about other cultures.
In 2010 I went to Bilbao and had my first and only experience surfing a couch...until now :p
At the end of the year we'll travel to the other side of the world and we are planning to do some Couchsurfing...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

This is my CouchSurfing experience in chronological order

I hosted:
Jovan Marjanov from Serbia (Jun 20100);
Ivanka Pavlovic from Serbia (Jun 2010);
Miguel Rosales from Mexico (Jul 2010);
Romain Diascorn from France (Jul 2010);
Christine Nørrelund from Denmark (Aug 2010);
Katrine Rasmussen from Denmark (Aug 2010);
Pui Sze Lau from Hong Kong (Sep 2011);
Stefan Maassen from USA (Oct 2011);
Beck Spies from Australia (Dec 2011);
Cigdem Okan from Turkey (Dec 2011);
Tine Andrä from Germany (July 2012);
James Ku, from Taiwan (Aug 2012)

I was hosted by:
Ibon Santisteban, in Bilbao, Spain (Aug 2010);

I surfed with:
Alessandro V from Italy (Aug 2007);
Lucas Soares from Argentina (Jul 2008);
Raphael Pichard from Germany (Apr 2010);
Rocío Serrati from Uruguay (Jun 2010);
Lygia de Luca from Brazil (Jun 2010);
Stephanie Levasseur from Canada (Jun 2010)
Nicole Maciel from Brazil (Jul 2010);
Katarzyna Elżbieta Kowalska from Poland (Aug 2010);
Ibon Santisteban from Bilbao (Aug 2010);
Livia Jost from Switzerland (Aug 2010);
Jose Chouciño from Spain (Aug 2010);
Lisa Zaythik from Israel (Aug 2010);
Eunhee Seo from South Korea (Feb 2011);
Allison Kennedy and Paul from USA (Apr 2012);
Luca Lazzaroni from Italy (Mar 2012);

Interests

Travel
Cinema
Music
Books
Poetry
Good food
Postcrossing
...

  • books
  • poetry
  • dining
  • drinking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS:
The Shadow of the Wind, Beatles, Angels of the Universe, One Hundred Years of Solitude,Love in the Time of Cholera, Living to Tell the Tale, Lord of the Rings, The Hours, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, A Small Death in Lisbon, Mrs. Dalloway, In a Sunburned Country, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, The Transformation of Intimacy...

MOVIES:
Once, Rent, Walk the Line, Talk to her, Bad Education, Motorcycle Diaries, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, Amores Perros, Babel, Lost in Translation, The Virgin Suicides, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark, Breaking the Waves, Kill Bill, In the mood for love,...

TV Series:
Six Feet Under, ER-Emergency Room, Angels in America, X-Files...

MUSIC:
Sigur Ros, Bjork, Mum, Arcade Fire, Kings of Convinience, Rufus Wainwright, Antony & the Jonhsons, Portishead, Massive Attack, Radiohead, Tindersticks, The National, The XX, Bon Iver, Cat Power, Beirut, Erykah Badu, Macy Gray, Glen Hansard & Markéta Irglová,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing I've seen were the Northern Lights up in Norway...can't describe it :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Denmark, France, Hungary, Indonesia, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Norway, Portugal

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