CURRENT MISSION

Live to my full potential

ABOUT ME

Trying to live an ecofriendly life. I love the outdoors; staying healthy; being active; vegan; social, political, legal, and ethical philosophy; latin american issues and cultures; anything Colombian; cycling; hiking; literature; creative writing; fitness; stair climbing; track and field; chess; good conversations; traveling; meeting new people.

I'm Colombian (so Spanish is my native tongue), learned to speak English in the US (New Hampshire), and am learning Japanese at the moment ;-) I'm 30, love to dance, eat, and clip my toe nails.

To find out more about me you can find/follow me here:

http://twitter.com/JEstebanTorres

PHILOSOPHY

To actualize my essence and individual/social potential in existence, in real life. This includes pretty much fine tuning and sharpening every psychological, emotional, physical, mental, social, and intellectual ability of my being. I want to become fully human. I want to overcome myself and give birth to a new me over and over again while I am alive because I may not ever be born again.

"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."
~ Martin Heidegger ~

"I am a wanderer and mountain climber, he said to his heart, I do not love the plains, and it seems I cannot sit still for long. And whatever may still overtake me as fate and experience – it will be a wandering and a mountain climbing; in the end one experiences only oneself."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~

"He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."
~ Gabriel Garcia Márquez ~

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can meet for coffee or tea, hang out, and am a couch surfer myself.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had 65 roommates in five different countries during the past 10 years. Those are just places I have had addresses at. I lost count of the couches ;-)

Interests

Currently in Medellin, Colombia. If you want to meet up for coffee or just to hang out, hit me up.

• writing
• literature
• perfumes
• dancing
• education
• coffee
• vegan
• fitness
• chess
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• track and field
• teaching
• languages
• law
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS/AUTHORS:
Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life"**
Leo Tolstoy**Fyodor Dostoyevski**Gabriel Garcia Marquez**Pablo Neruda**Octavio Paz**Federico Garcia Lorca**Isabel Allende**Jorge Franco***John Irving**Robert Cox**Charles Simic**Chuck Palahniuk**David Sedaris**Shane Koyczan**Jack McCarthy**Bryce Courtenay**Sun Tzu**Thucydides**Machiavelli**Antonio Gramsci**Friedrich Nietzsche**Karl Marx**Michel Foucault**Immanuel Levinas** Theodor Adorno**Martin Heidegger**Jurgen Habermas**Joshua Meyrowitz**Nick Smith

FILM:
Love classical flicks; anything Hitchcock, Woody Allen. I also enjoy period films and films on locations that are not a city. Anything that is well acted and tells a good story.

MUSIC:
We'll have to share :-)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

ran up the Sears Tower TWICE with an hour of rest between the firs and second time. Total steps 4,218, total flights 206, total time 40 minutes 28 seconds.

Swam in the Ecuadorian Amazon river.

Stalked a geisha through the streets of Kyoto.

Have hiked mountains in five different countries (Chile, Canada, Colombia,Japan, and USA).

Have lived with 65 people in total of all ages, complexions, ethnicities, sexual orientations, professions, education, cultures, (almost all) continents, political affiliations, religious affiliations, and who've spoken a multitude of languages.

I can't believe I have couch surfed over 30 times in my life and I JUST stumbled upon this global community. Better late than never.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Japan, South Korea, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Chile, Colombia, Japan, United States