Hello everyone! I'm Spanish and 22 years old, I've been living in France for 6 years and now I am in Israel, working and visiting the country. I've been living in kibboutz Neot Semadar in the Arava region for 2 months now; it has been a wonderful experience full of interesting encounters with other volunteers from all around the world. Back home in Paris, I am a student in Communication Studies, and in my final year I am specializing in Intercultural Communication and Project engineering.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm in couchsurfing because a great friend of mine talked to me about it, and this is how I got to know this way of traveling. I believe that couchsurfing is an excellent way of visiting foreign countries because it allows us to be in contact with the locals, to live with them for some days, to share experiences with them, thus understanding the country and its people better. It is a very enriching experience in terms of human and cultural exchanges!

Interests

I very much enjoy reading, listening to music, watching films, going out with my friends, sketching (I attended art classes for 7 years back in Spain), singing (I've been in a choir for 5 years), playing with my dog Blacky and traveling :)

• dogs
• birds
• insects
• arts
• singing
• sketching
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Queen, Abba, Don McLean, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Malu, Sergio Dalma, Loreena McKennitt, Breaking Benjamin, Hans Zimmer...

Books: The Pillars of the Earth, The Shadow of the Wind, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, etc. I very much enjoy reading the European classics such as Victor Hugo, Balzac, Maupassant, Shakespeare, Garcia Lorca, Calderon de la Barca, Poe, and American authors such as Paul Auster, Mary Higgins Clark, Isabel Allende, Pablo Simonetti...

Movies: Forrest Gump, Apocalypse Now, Doctor Zhivago, The Secret in their Eyes, Merry Christmas, The Green Mile, Notting Hill, City of Angels, The Lion King, The Village, love Hitchcock's films like The Birds, Psycho, Marnie, Rear Window...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've been protecting dates from birds and insects with black plastic bags perched on a 15-meter-high palm tree with no protection whatsoever. It's a miracle I'm still alive :)

Teach, Learn, Share

“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.” (René Daumal)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I would be glad if I could share enriching conversations with hosts, exchange adresses in case one of them was interested in visiting Paris or Bercelona, and why not, visiting the city together if we feel like it!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Israel, Spain