CURRENT MISSION

To understand something

ABOUT ME

I find it really challenging and interesting to explore cultures and peoples mindsets.. My mission is to reduce the gap between “we” and “the other” with my work. To create an understanding for what is unknown and therefore sometimes threatening.

I also do travelwriting and prefer to get to know a country and its people, rather than scrap on the surface.

PHILOSOPHY

"It's nice to be important...
but it's important to be nice."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame,
give me truth." Henry David Thoreau

"Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house... must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for." The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

"Life is only bearable when the mind and the body are in harmony, and there is a natural balance between the two, and each has a natural balance for each other." Lady Chatterly's Lover by DH Lawerence

“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.” Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

"We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other." A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

"Not only did I feel unhesitating compassion and unity with everything and everybody, it was vaguely and amusingly strange for me to wonder how anybody could ever feel anything BUT that." Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

"I want / to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." from Every Day You Play by Pablo Neruda

"Missions are stupid, Tereza. I have no mission, no one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions." The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

"I have hated the words, and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

It was very early in the morning, the streets clean and deserted, I was on my way to the station. As I compared the tower clock with my watch I realized it was much later than I had thought and that I had to hurry; the shock of this discovery made me feel uncertain of the way, I wasn't very well acquainted with the town as yet; fortunately, there was a policeman at hand, I ran to him and breathlessly asked him the way. He smiled and said: "You asking me the way?" "Yes," I said, "since I can't find it myself." "Give it up! Give it up!" said he, and turned with a sudden jerk, like someone who wants to be alone with his laughter. Franz Kafka

"Ignatius, you must identify with something..." A Confederacy of Dunces by John K Toole

"Silence has many advantages. When you do not speak, other people presume you to be deaf or feeble-minded and promptly make a show of their own limitations... oh the world is a-boggle with colors and shapes competing for a half-brain's attention. The parade never stops." The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

"As in mastering a language, one had to learn not just the literal meanings of words but also their connotations, and to grasp those one had to know the politics and economic systems and histories of a place. Only then could you really understand an event like the mango lady's death." Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

ART - (that thing having to do only with itself) the product of a successful attempt to make a work of art. unfortunately, there are no good examples of art, nor good reasons to think that it will ever exist.
IFICE - that thing with purpose, created for function's sake, and having to do with the world. everything is, in some way, and example of ifice.
IFACT - a past-tensed fact.
ARTIFICE - that thing that was art in its conception and ifice in its execution. look around. examples are everywhere.
ARTIFACT - the product of a successful attempt to make a purpose-less, useless, beautiful thing out of a past-tensed fact. it can never be art, and it can never be fact.
IFACTIFICE - if we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing to understand. but until we find this new way of speaking, until we can find a non-approximate vocabulary, nonsense words are the best thing we've got. ifactifice is one such word. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran-Foer

"People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else." The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

"Now that I'm going away anyway, I can tell you quite frankly: even when we were having the most intellectual conversations and I honestly thought and believed everything I said, I still wanted all the time... all the time... to pick you up and kiss you on the lips. So try to work that out. And now, without your permission, I kiss them." Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it." Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

"The art of love is like your painting, it requires technique, patience, and above all, practice by the couple. It requires boldness." Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho

"There are two kinds of visual memory: one when you skillfully recreate an image in the laboratory of your mind, with your eyes open... and the other when you instantly evoke, with shut eyes, one the dark innerside of your eyelids, the objective, absolutely optical replica of a beloved face, a little ghost in natural colors." Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

"If I think I must write one book, all the problems of how this book should be and how it should not be block me and keep me from going forward. If, on the contrary, I think that I am writing a whole library, I feel suddenly lightened: I know that whatever I write will be integrated, contradicted, balanced, amplified, buried by the hundreds of volumes that remain for me to write." If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler by Italo Calvino

"But it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters." The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

"Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life." The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot." Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.......try to eat like the French... or the Italians." In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

*I won't list all the quotes I love, but there's a lot to be learned from Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts*

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none

Interests

I love travel!!!!

• animals
• arts
• writing
• books
• literature
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• chocolate
• baking
• yoga
• politics
• traveling
• painting
• music
• history
• languages
• tourism
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorites movies:
The Pursuit of Happyness, Seven Pounds, Fight club in the top list.
Favourite music:
hip hop, pop rock,
Books:
Paulo Coelho,Sergio bambaren, Andrea De Carlo ecc....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Everyday without amazing things done is a lost day!
Watched sunrise from Trapani

Teach, Learn, Share

I would love to learn so many new languages (and others I have already started to study), yoga, about ayurveda, philosophy, history, more music, more dancing, literature, art, cooking, and, and, and...
I don't really know whether I have any special knowledge, I know some languages and music to a certain extent... and I know baking veeeery good chocolate cakes :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy

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