I'm an energetic, laid-back and optimistic Argentinian guy with a strong impulse for venture, spotaneity and the unknown. I love music, sports and meeting new people. I have one idea in mind and that's: making the most of this life!
Hi there !

I’m Matias Cosenza, a 27 years old translator and interpreter from Buenos Aires, Argentina, currently backpacking in Oceania and soon arriving to Europe for the next summer season. After the completion of my studies in late 2015 I decided to fulfil my dream of seeing the world, so I left everything behind, sold my car, applied for my visa and got a ticket for New Zealand as my first destination. I lived in New Zealand for a year and four months, there I was on a working holidays visa and a sponsorship which enabled me to travel and work simultaneously, relocating in different towns and cities and road tripping along the way. After finishing all the paperwork and getting a car in Auckland I decided to spend the summer in Mount Maunganui, where I worked as a kitchen hand at a fish and chips restaurant, a tile fitter for a construction company and as a kiwifruit picker and stacker for a kiwifruit packing shed. After a lovely summer full of adventures with new people from all around the world I did a road trip with an Argentinian friend around the North Island for 3 weeks.
Wellington would be my next stop in search of a professional job, however due to its windy and rainy weather I decided to jump down to the South Island and felt in love with a little kiwi town called Nelson, the shiniest town in New Zealand. I lived in a hostel for four months ran by a Welsh couple, and I worked in the fishing industry mainly before getting back into hospitality. After spending one month working for a mussels-processing factory I was hired to work as a food and beverage attendant at the Rutherford Hotel. Before summer arrived again I moved to Queenstown, my favourite town in New Zealand´s South Island. Me, alongside my three friends from back home, obtained a lease for a house for six months. Queenstown is full of bars and restaurants open 24/7 so we all four got jobs as cooks. Once summer came to end we went on a final road trip on the South Island before parting ways. Before returning to Argentina for a short family visit I travelled to Tonga with a friend to explore a little bit of this isolated Pacific Island. It´s always good to go back after a while so I had an amazing time with my family and friends, and I planned the return in advance to be there for my mother´s birthday and without knowing for Father’s Day too, so it was a really special comeback.
Chapter two would be Australia, my current location; I had previously booked my flight and applied for the visa while in Queenstown. I arrived to Brisbane on June the 20th and spent two months and a half living in a hostel and working as a labourer for a construction and landscaping company. After saving a little bit of money I set forth my main goal in Australia which was completing the 88 days of farm work for the second-year extension. I relocated five times from farms to working hostels around Queensland until I finally got my days. I lived in town by the names of Cairns, Ayr, Bowen and Bundaberg all located within the hot and suffocating state of Queensland. I learnt a lot about farming and agriculture and had the chance to have a laidback countryside lifestyle surrounded by sugarcane, rock melon fields and wallabies hopping at the backdrop. I worked in a zucchini farm, a corn packing shed, a solar farm and a dragon fruit and passion fruit orchard doing picking, packing, sorting, stacking and performing general labouring tasks. I flew to Sydney in February, my current city, once my days were completed and as a friend of mine was living here as well. He had had surgery, so I lived with him for a month and helped him while he was on the mend. After finding a job in a shipyard, my current one, I moved house just across Anzac bridge and settled for the time being. Right now, I’m working as a general maintenance worker doing ship maintenance where I’m learning heaps about boats and I have the chance to work outdoors with an overlooking view of Sydney’s CBD.

Personally, I’m a very energetic and hyperactive person, I like finding stuff to do all the time and keeping active, both mentally and physically. I have a positive outlook about life and enjoy giving a helping hand to the one who needs it the most. I find myself patience when it comes to managing and training people. I love meeting people from different cultures, and the further away from home the more stimulating and enriching it is. I´m highly social and engaging, I like bridging the gap between idiomatic barriers and finding a common denominator among cultural gaps. I have a deep sense of adventure and the unknown, I strongly believe is what propel us forward into meaning, purpose and personal quest. Being highly passionate about languages and culture, I enjoy immersing myself into different ways of living and lifestyles, learning about what factors involved played a role in cultural mentality. I have full English command and I’m a native Spanish speaker, however I picked up many words and phrases from a lot of languages along the way and I’m always keen to learning new ones. My personal interest are sports such as basketball, football and tennis, I love swimming and diving in lakes, rivers and in the ocean. One of the things that I love doing the most is playing the guitar, which I take with me in every trip I make. I’m a very musical person and like writing little pieces for people. I enjoy trekking and exploring new landscapes. Cooking has become one of my latest interests as well, specially if I have the chance to share it with someone.
Job-wise, in Argentina I worked as an English – Spanish freelance translator and interpreter and I managed ice cream shops around the city of Buenos Aires alongside my brother Gonzalo. My dad runs an ice cream manufacturing factory so as soon I finished high school and started college, we set up four branches scattered around the city which we ran and managed until I finished my studies, and which would be later passed down to our younger brother. As I stated before, I worked in a wide array of jobs and areas from hospitality, construction, landscaping to farming, fishing, management and language support and I learnt so many skills and attributes along this journey. I have a very keen eye for detail and costumer needs when it comes to hostel receptionist positions, I’m mechanically-minded and physically built if there is any repair or refurbishment to do, I can manage and engage people from different cultural backgrounds- but above all I can give you my big smile and helping hand and can assure that we will have and splendid and fun time.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

`cause I wanna travel around the world and have the chance to stay in local people homes to get myself immerse in different cultures, values and visions, as well as ways of life and behaviours; and to my mind that's the best way to do it !

Interests

Music
Sports
Heatlh
Nightlife
Guitar
Travel

• nightlife
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• sports
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Progg Rock
Metal
Folk
Rock
R&B
New Metal
Classic Rock

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Graduating in Conference Interpretation

Handgliding over mountains in La Rioja province, Arg.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My life experiences, values and virtues.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, Mexico, New Zealand, Tonga, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Australia, New Zealand