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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Looking for my place in this world (like everyone?)
ABOUT ME
I'm a historian of art and an amateur violinist and writer. I don't like staying more than one year in the same place.
PHILOSOPHY
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life" (Oscar Wilde)
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I'd like to visit again such cities as Oxford, Berlin, San Francisco or Boston. I'd also love to visit some places I've never been in like Japan, South Korea or Russia.
I could host too.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
None
Interests
I like discovering new places and going on adventure. I love cinema, photography and jazz music. Also salsa dancing and martial arts.
- arts
- writing
- photography
- concerts
- festivals
- dancing
- salsa dancing
- dining
- indian food
- movies
- painting
- music
- jazz
- piano
- violin
- martial arts
- swimming
- history
- tourism
- beaches
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Billy Wilder, Terrence Malik, Christopher Nolan, Almodovar. The Graduate, Dallas Buyers Club.
Music: all jazz (especially 40's and 50's and Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet), classic rock (ACDC, Queen), 70's pop (ABBA), some rap, all classical music (especially Bach and Beethoven).
Books: 19th century novels (Madame Bovary, Crime and Punishment), Camus, Thomas de Quincey. Some poetry.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Swimming in ice-cold water at Yosemite National Park (California), watching the puppet-theatre version of Don Giovanni in Prague, going to Linkin Park concert, car trip from Madrid to Poitiers (France), Sharmanka Kinetic theatre in Glasgow (Scotland), visiting Louisa May Alcott's house at Concord (Boston), Turner's oil-painting at the Tate Britain (London), Carmel beach (California), Lady Rizo's and The Les Clöchards' shows at Fringe Festival,...
Teach, Learn, Share
I teach violin, piano and Spanish.
I'd like to have theatre classes and learn how to prepare Chinese, Japanese, Korean or /and Indian food.
What I Can Share with Hosts
Guide around Madrid.
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, China, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
France, Spain, United Kingdom