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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, French, Portuguese; learning Spanish
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Research Engineer / PhD Candidate
  • Mechanical Engineering (B.Eng.) / Materials Engineering (...
  • From Salvador, BA, Brasil
  • Profile 85% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Looking for new possibilities

ABOUT ME

I'm a simple person who likes to keep learning stuff from the World.

PHILOSOPHY

The last one : " La nature a des perfections pour montrer qu'elle est l'image de Dieu, et des défauts pour montrer qu'elle n'en est que l'image " - Blaise Pascal
" Nature has its perfections to show that it's God's image, and its defects to show that it's just an image " - Blaise Pascal

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet by couchsurfing.org

Interests

I like to laugh, to see new sights, to taste new flavours, to listen to new sounds, to think about new possibilies... I tried and liked cycling, running, paragliding, learning taekwondo, swimming, cooking, making origami, ...

  • cooking
  • running
  • origami
  • cycling
  • scuba diving
  • paragliding
  • swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory; L'Auberge Espagnol

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2002 : exchange in France
2003 : seen the last landing of Concorde in its factory in Toulouse while working for AIRBUS
2005 : live in Rio de Janeiro; my first solo paraglide flight
2006 : work offshore in a diving support vessel and follow the work at a 150m depth
2007 : construct a pipeline in the middle of the Amazon rainforest
2008 : enter in a vulcano crater in Chile
2008 : go to Robben Island; feeding lyon cubs in South Africa
2009 : learn to dive and do it in Fernando de Noronha-Brazil
2011 : dive in the Great Barrier Reef; feed kangaroos in Australia
2012 : register a patent of my own invention
2012 : stop working to get back to studies

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Paraguay, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France

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