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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning German
  • 33, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Graduate student
  • PhD candidate in Art History
  • From Madrid
  • Profile 75% complete

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

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