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Overview

  • 8 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Catalan, Valencian, English, Spanish; learning Esperanto, French, Italian
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • PhD student in theoretical physics (superstrings and all ...
  • No education listed
  • From Barcelona, Catalunya.
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Trying hard to understand Nature, human beings and, with a little more effort, maybe women too.

ABOUT ME

I try hard to be an honest, kind, active and funny person, but when I don't succeed it always amazes me how can people fail in something as "easy" as this. Currently I work as a PhD Student at the physics faculty of the University of Barcelona and, for better or worse, I have to say that this fact by itself defines me quite well. The only other things you need to know is that I dance Lindy Hop (like... a lot, almost every day), I used to play the piano (classic and jazz), I like to participate in activities related with the popularization of science and that I will always appreciate a good bad joke.

I live with my good friend Blai (I like to call him Blai2, BlaiB or just "the other Blai") in the very center of Barcelona, next to plaça Sant Jaume.

I do think CouchSurfing is a great, beautiful idea and the best way I have experienced to travel, know other people and cultures and share my little pieces of knowledge about Barcelona and its life.

Ah, by the way, I'm totally against prejudices and Astrohomoeopathy.

PHILOSOPHY

Keep It Simple

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I had been aware of CS for a long time but I really discovered the power and beauty of knowing people surfing from couch to couch in a two month trip through Argentina I did by the end of 2012. It totally blowed my mind! Now that I recently moved to a new flat I try every now and then to host interesting surfers from abroad and when I travel I always consider first the possibility of surfing.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Always good! Read the references :-)

Interests

New ways of thinking, dancing, music, literature, cinema, physics, philosophy, politics, jokes, etc...
I love people with funny and bizarre stories to tell :-)

  • literature
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • politics
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • jazz
  • piano
  • surfing
  • physics
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

Classic and modern jazz, rock, classic metal, reggae.

The Big Lebowski, Diarios de Motocicleta, Cinema Paradiso, Star Wars.

Hesse, Hemingway, Orwell, Borges.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The holographic principle and the emergence of space-time

Teach, Learn, Share

Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada... I really want to learn a bit of everything, the useless the better!

I can only teach you my own idiosyncratic way of thinking, some Lindy Hop steps and maybe the few funny things I learned about our universe studying theoretical physics. "I have seen things you people woudn't believe..."

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Denmark, Spain

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