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Overview

  • 46 references 42 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning French, Italian
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Film student and scientific translator
  • PhD in neuroscience
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Imposssible

ABOUT ME

Having to describe oneself is terrible...
I guess I am grounded with a child-like sense of humor. A cold beer with friends is as good as it gets, especially while enjoying a conversation about any subject.
I may work hard but, above all, I enjoy traveling abroad and meeting new people, especially if they are completely different from me, learning about their life stories, cultural traditions and history.
Nature and outdoors makes me feel in peace, particularly the sea.

PHILOSOPHY

Autonomy vs. Beneficence

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted CSs and travelled with some of them, and I have been hosted in Istanbul, Astana and Melbourne. Looking forward to further CS experiences!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

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Interests

Film: I am fascinated by cinema. My favorite film directors are Martin Scorsese, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jacques Audiard, Walter Salles, Peter Weir, Francois Ozon, to name a few. Hitchcock and Kubrick, of course.
Music: Alternative, Classic, Jazz.
Sports: I am a Triathlete, runner and occasional tennis player. I enjoy hiking and watching almost all sports.
Traveling: I enjoy last-minute traveling, backpacking & camping, roadtrips but I have no shame in admitting that I have been to resorts a couple of times sometimes and it's the best way to rest...
Architecture: Whether wandering through the historic center of a city or flipping pages of a photographic book.

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: "The Motorcycle Diaries", "Into the wild", "Edward Scissorhands", "Cinema Paradiso", "One flew over the cuckoo's nest", "Little Children", "The Dead Poets Society", "Magnolia", "Before sunrise", "Donnie Darko", the list goes on...
Music: Alternative - Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, The Shins, Arcade Fire, Fanfarlo, Alabama Shakes and many others.
Books: "On the road", "Shantaram", "Persepolis", "Love in the time of Cholera", "The old man and the sea"...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bioluminescent (Mosquito) Bay - Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico.
A night under the Sahara desert stars, Morocco.
Watching a polar bear swimming from below at the San Diego Zoo Aquarium, California.
Radiohead concert @ Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California.
Holding my nephew for the first time.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Aruba, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Czech Republic, Portugal, Spain, United States

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