CURRENT MISSION

Kites, volleyball, YOGA, The Presence Process, Organic Farming, Cooking, Climbing, Handicrafts...

ABOUT ME

-My main target right now is The Presence Process.

-I'm also interested in learning German, ORGANIC FARMING, PERMACULTURE, sustainability & self-sufficiency.

-I really think FOOD SOVEREIGNITY is the only real long term solution for the main problems in the world related with poverty, environment and health.

-I want to discover other cultures, different points of view, habits and ways of being thankful for being "just" alive.

-I'm also interested in cooking, yoga, meditation, hiking, cycling, swimming, languages, juggling, dancing, reiki, nature, travelling, knowledge in general, curiosities in particular, non-mainstream music and movies, how everything works (both in machines and in people's mind)...

-I don't know WHAT "boredom" MEANS...

-I believe in future, but I miss how things used to be in the past, especially before I was born, when my (grand)parents were young!

-I believe in technology, but also in hand-made work!

-I'm bilingual in Spanish and Catalan. I speak very good French and quite good English, and a bit of German.

-I joined Couch Surfing project in 2008, and that led me to Organic Farming Volunteering...

-"I only know that I know nothing", and I'm happy about that!

PHILOSOPHY

As Kafka said:
From certain point, there's no way back; that's the point we have to reach.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

-I talk about Couch Surfing project to everybody that I know, with joy and enthusiasm!
-I host people, and I like being hosted as well.
-I like giving tips to new Couch Surfers in order to improve their profiles, and increase their possibilities of being hosted, or even to make their hitchhiking journeys safer.
-I meet regularly other Couch Surfers from the region, to share a particular activity or just talk about our travels, and hosts/guests and great experiences...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

-I hosted many people.
-I was hosted by many people.

***Wonderful experiences, most of the time***

A few neutral experiences...

Interests

Everything!
The spider web at home, the playful squirrels, wicker baskets, knitting, carpentry...

• animals
• culture
• dancing
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• cheese
• yoga
• meditation
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• juggling
• knitting
• music
• a cappella
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• christian
• buddhist
• rock climbing
• swimming
• engineering
• languages
• religion
• sign language
• hitchhiking
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

*Some of the MOVIES I liked the most:
1- "The holy mountain" (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
2- "Into the wild" (Sean Penn)
¤- "The Artist" (Michel Hazanavicius)
*- "Stanley & Iris" (Martin Ritt)
*- "Once" (John Carney)
¤- "The Passion of Christ" (Mel Gibson)
¤- Paolo Sorrentino: "The great beauty" & "This must be the place"
¤- "The women on the 6th floor" (Philippe Le Guay)
¤- "The Way" (Emilio Estevez)
¤- "The descendants" (Alexander Payne)
¤- "The Well-Digger's Daughter" (Daniel Auteuil)
¤- "Good for nothing" (Mike Wallis)
3- Doris Dorrie: "How to cook your life" and "Cherry blossoms"
4- Woody Allen: "Annie Hall" and "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion"
5- "Rivers and tides" (Thomas Riedelsheimer)
6- "A prophet" (Jacques Audiard)
7- "Adam's rib" (George Cukor)
8- "Tajnosti"/"Little Girl Blue" (Alice Nellis)
9- "Amélie" (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
10- "Avril" (Gérald Hustache-Mathieu)
11- "The Holy Innocents" (Mario Camus)
12- "One, two, three" (Billy Wilder)
13- "The edukators" (Hans Weingartner)
14- "As good as it gets" (James L. Brooks)
15- "Kill Bill Vol.2" (Quentin Tarantino)
16- "Mutluluk" (Abdullah Oguz)
17- "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring" (Kim Ki-duk)
18- "Little Miss sunshine" (Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris)
19- "Dancer in the dark" (Lars Von Trier)
20- Fatih Akin: "Crossing the bridge" and "The edge of heaven"
21- David Lean: "Brief encounter" and "Doctor Zhivago"
22- Isabel Coixet: "The secret life of words" and "My life without me"
23- "The pianist" (Roman Polanski)
24- Alejandro Amenábar: "The sea inside" & "Agora"
25- "Volver" (Pedro Almodóvar)
26- "Magnolia" (Paul Thomas Anderson)
27- "Sex and Lucia" (Julio Medem)
28- "Princesas" (Fernando León de Aranoa)
29- "Four minutes" (Chris Kraus)
30- "American beauty" (Sam Mendes)
31- "L'antidote" (Vincent De Brus)
32- "The chorus" (Christophe Barratier)
33- "Spirited away" (Hayao Miyazaki)
34- "Born into Brothels" (Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman)
35- Jean Becker: "Les enfants du marais", "Deux jours à tuer", "La tête en friche"
36- "The blind sunflowers" (José Luis Cuerda)

*The MUSIC I like the most:
¤- Lindsey Stirling.
¤- Mando Diao.
¤- Edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros
¤- Jamie Cullum
1- Najwa Nimri
2- Ludovico Einaudi
3- Jorge Drexler
4- Leonard Cohen
5- Rodrigo Leao
6- Yann Tiersen
7- Nina Simone
8- Bunbury
9- Agnes Obel
10- Yael Naim
11- Pascal Comelade
12- Sinéad O'Connor
13- Sigur Ros
14- Lévon Minassian
15- Ólafur Arnalds
16- Django Reinhardt
17- Andrés Calamaro
18- Wim Mertens
19- Paco de Lucía
20- John McLaughlin
21- Hafdis Huld
22- Evan Christopher
23- Apocalyptica
24- John Butler Trio
25- Charlie Parker
26- B. B. King
27- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
28- Sargento García
29- Bob Marley
30- Camille
31- Shakti
32- Astor Piazzolla
33- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
34- Mor Karbasi
35- Cesaria Evora
36- Wax Taylor
37- Morcheeba
38- A moving sound
39- Lluís Llach
40- Andreas Vollenweider

*Some of the BOOKS I liked the most:
¤- "Siddhartha" (Herman Hesse)
-"The whole movement of life is learning" (Krishnamurti)
1- Eckhart Tolle: "The power of now" & "A new Earth"
2- "The dance of reality" (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
-"The prophet" (Khalil Gibran)
-"How to be free" (Tom Hodgkinson).
-"Manifest your destiny" (Wayne W. Dyer)
-"The presence process" (Michael Brown)
-"About a boy" (Nick Hornby)
3- "God's crooked penmanship" (Torcuato Luca de Tena)
4- "Into the wild" (Jon Krakauer)
5- Carlos Ruiz Zafón: "The shadow of the wind" & "The angel's game"
6- "The little prince" (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
7- Paulo Coelho: "The Zahir", "Eleven minutes", "Veronika decides to die", "The alchemist".
8- Manuel Vicent: "Son de mar", "Antitauromaquia", "La novia de Matisse", "Cuerpos sucesivos".
9- "Abel Sánchez" (Miguel de Unamuno)
10- "The art of loving" (Erich Fromm)
11- Carmen Alborch: "Solas", "Malas".
12- "Circles of stone" (Joan Dahr Lambert)
13- "The symposium" (Plato)
14- "Sophie's world" (Jostein Gaarder)
15- "El gust amarg de la cervesa" (Isabel-Clara Simó)
16- "Aigua en cistella" (Carme Miquel)
17- "The magic circle" (Katherine Neville)
18- "The bald soprano" (Eugène Ionesco)
19- "Fairy tales" (Charles Perrault)
20- "El deseo según Gilles Deleuze" (Maite Larrauri)
21- "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" (Haruki Murakami)
22- Rudyard Kipling: "The jungle book" & "Just so stories"
23- Laura Esquivel: "Like water for chocolate", "Swift as desire".

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1982 - Being born.
2012- Surviving (for 5 weeks) in a sheep farm with extreme weather conditions & (very) poisonous snakes & spiders...

Teach, Learn, Share

1- The vanilla comes from one kind of orchid.
2- The avocado is a fruit, and not a vegetable.
3- The marshmallow comes originally from a medicinal plant called Althaea officinalis.
4- Spain has 5 official languages: Spanish, Catalan, Galician, Basque and Sign language.
5- "Don't worry, be happy" is a cappella song by musician Bobby McFerrin, released 7 years after Bob Marley's death.
6- Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson" in any of the 4 novels and 56 short stories that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote.
7- "My Way" is an English version of a French song. The English lyrics were written by Paul Anka and popularized by Frank Sinatra on 1969. The melody is that of the French song "Comme d'habitude" composed in 1967 by Claude François and Jacques Revaux.
8- Voodoo is one of the most ancient religions in the world, brought with West African slaves to Haiti. The general belief of pricking pins into dolls is totally false, just an attempt of Spain, France and USA to impose Christianity instead.
9- Goji berries and rose haws have (respectively) 40 and 25 times more Vitamin C than oranges.
10- Carob is so tasty that many people think the cakes I usually bake are made with chocolate.
11- Parmesan cheese is not exactly the same as Grana Padano.
12- Molière was born as Jean-Baptiste Poquelin. Marilyn Monroe was born as Norma Jeane Mortenson.
13- Niagara falls froze in 1911.
14- The only visible animal from space is coral.
15- Ostrich is the fastest animal on 2 feet. It can keep a speed of 67 km/h during long distances.
16- Jesus was a cool guy, and he talked about extremely interesting issues thorugh metaphors...
17- Tibetan Buddhism started 700 years after Siddhārtha Gautama.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, conversation, smile...

Countries I’ve Visited

Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain

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