CURRENT MISSION

Living the Life in SHANGHAI.

ABOUT ME

Massiel Sanchez is a lady with the heart in the right place. She loves to travel, meet people of different cultures, write about them and their environment. Although couchsurfing is a new thing to her, the idea of opening your place and space for others is not, she has been hosting countless friends and acquaintances and their friends over the past ten years in her humble city, Utrecht.

PHILOSOPHY

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. (Franz Kafka) (Or ask some of my exboyfriends)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Not so much, but I do love fun, folks and festivities, in many many contexts :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

1st time in Albania, which made me hooked, especially the memories of the people i met, they make your travelogue complete.

Interests

films (old/new 1s), blue note focused jazz cafes, odd-looking concert venues with great accoustics, meditative walks through large cities with too many people, hiking in bushes, surfing in waters with potential shark dangers, hot desert walks, capture weirdos and crazy things on camera.

• beauty
• concerts
• environment
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• jazz
• hiking
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

The Man with the Movie Camera, Battleship Potemkin, Lester Young, Marvin Gaye, Intouchables, Coco Schumann, Stan Getz, Junior Wells and the Getz, Beastie Boys, RUN DMC, Jurassic 5, Joao Gilberto, Haruki Murakami (The Wind up Bird Chronicles, Kafka on the Shore), Dostoyevski (Notes from the Underground, the Gambler), Howard Zinn: The Peoples from the United States, House of Leaves, Walt Whitman, Sylvia Plath, and so on and on and on and on ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of my nicest experiences up until now has been the possibility to film/document the lives and conditions of people in Kenya, Tanzania and of course Berlin :) (for film assignments/tv report)

Teach, Learn, Share

Those that dare to utter their own words and opinions, in whatever context. It is my belief that every individual on this planet goes through life with their own conflicts, and we can ALL learn from each other. Let's start teaching, each other, learn from each other, and share that with EACH OTHER :).

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Suriname, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Dominican Republic