Hi there! I'm Cat, from Italy, but currently living and studying environmental science and sustainability in Dumfries. Love beautiful Scotland and its folk, but as an international person, I like to explore and familiarise with as many cultures as possible!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have couchsurfed in Ireland and Northern Ireland with some friends in 2015 and that was an experience I will never forget. Meeting people, sharing experiences and seeing cool places are the reasons why I decided to join in!

Interests

A bit before I got my degree in languages, I realised that what I really want to do is working in a farm or something nature-related. That is why I decided to take a gap year to explore the world, both outisde and within me!

This is what I know about me for the moment:

Creativity is foundamental and a way I use to express myself when words don't want to come out. Vintage is just a general word to say that I like to wear second-hand clothes both cause they have a connection with someone else's unknown story and because they're cool, eco-friendly and cheaper. Trees are life and it's our duty to protect them. Wwooffing should be part of school programs. The lion king was the first film I watched in English, and it just got better. I collect postcards from all over the world. I have studied in Bologna. My favourite way to spend my spare time there was 'graffitis-hunting': photographing any cool graffiti that gets on my way. I listen to music, dress up, wear makeup and drink beer according to my mood. And, love walking in the countryside. Last, but not least, I normally don't trust people who never contradict themselves (Yes, I contraddict myself quite often, but I'm pretty consistent in that).

• coffee
• walking
• music
• sewing
• postcards
• vintage
• trees
• disney cartoons
• languages and dialects
• any kind of beer
• graffiti and street art
• paradoxes and contradictions

Music, Movies, and Books

Rino Gaetano, Fabrizio De Andrè, Angelo Branduardi, Jovanotti, Negramaro, Mannarino, Vinicio Capossela, Lucio Battisti, Pierangelo Bertoli, Francesco Guccini, Il duo bucolico, Donatella Rettore (il kobra), Patty Pravo, Andrea Bocelli, Max Gazzè, Franco Battiato (la cura), Murubutu (i marinai tornano tardi)

The do, Stromae, The Maccabees, Foals, CocoRosie (fairy paradise), And The Kids, Jain, The White Feather Collective, Moriarty (Jimmy), Lou Reed, Antony, Cat Stevens, Radical Face, The Killers, Jamie T, New Order, Jon Hopkins, Grimes, Moderat, Lcd SoundSystem, Clark, Caribou, The Beta Band (dry the rain), Young fathers, Kate Tempest and so on and so on!

American Beauty, Mommy, A Beautiful Mind, The Best Offer, The Master and Margherita, The Lion King, Fantasia, and all other Disney Classics up to Inside Out

Orange is the New Black, Peaky Blinders, The Simpsons

Invisible cities- Italo Calvino
Il barone rampante-Italo Calvino
Il giorno della civetta-Sciascia
The Divine Commedy- Dante Alighieri
Gomorra-Roberto Saviano
The Rotters Club- Jhonatan Coe
Colours of memory- Geoff Dyer
The trick is to keep breathing-Janice Galloway
The Private Memories and Confessions of a Justified Sinner- James Hogg
The Catcher in the Ray-Salinger
The Great Meaulnes- Alan Fourier
The Little Prince-Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Brothers Karamazov- Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina-Tolsoj
Fathers and sons- Turgenev
The Master and Margherita-Bulgakov

Giuseppe Ungaretti
Eugenio Montale
Dante Alighieri

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Surviving and enjoying an amazing week of wild camping on the Isle of Mull with a friend and a terrible flue!

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: I can teach Italian language, Italian body language, culture and literature to everyone interested . And obviously I can show you how to make what made Italy famous all over the world: homemade pasta and pizza!

Learn: I am interested in learning about anything manual, gardening and farming. I'd love to learn how to be genuinely friendly and a little less shy if that's possible!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am happy to share my time, ideas, experiences and more. Also, more practically, I like to make myself useful in helping you out with some little/big housework, like washing dishes, helping in the garden, tidying a clogged cellar, etc...

Countries I’ve Visited

England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Russian Federation, Scotland