Nice company :) someone who enjoys drinking tea and walking around the cities, telling and hearing stories.

I was born and raised in a city in south Brazil called Porto Alegre. It's located at the most southern state of the country, and because geographical borders don't really separate the cultural ones, this place ends up being somewhere between Uruguai and Argentina and the rest of Brazil. Where we drink mate, speak a harder variation of Portuguese (and 'portuñol') and where is quite cold in the winter.

It's quite a lovely place to visit! Just getting lost in the old city shows you it's beauty and particular life, through nice old buildings, street cinema, culture houses and galleries, nice squares and a pretty view from our river. :)

(This part of Brazil received in the late 1800s a wave of immigrants coming especially from Germany and Italy - and that's why so many people here speak German or Italian as a mother language. My family is such a case, even though I started learning German later in life.)

Even though I work as a german teacher, writing is my real life passion. I quite enjoy art - and how it beautifully hides in the cities, in the people and in everyday life. And I love visiting art exhibitions and galleries, local music concerts, all that which shows you a nice perspective of the place you are - because art, in my perspective, is quite an intense way to understand a culture, how do people feel what they experience and what's going on in a place.

I'm not much of a cook, but I bake quite well. If you want your house to smell like grandma's, with something tasty coming out of the oven, we could make it happen. :)

I'm also a plant-lover! Botanical gardens, squares and parks, local markets to buy vegetables and fruits are my hobby. Walking around those places is a lovely way to feel the nature inside the cities. And of course, picnic too!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It always amazes me how people are different around the world and how much it widens one's perspective to be in touch with this difference - languages, habits, ways to express oneself.

Couchsurfing is an opportunity to travel in the most interesting way: to see how someone else experiences their city, their country and their mother tongue. And even at home, it's a constant journey within you routine, the places you see every day and the language you speak.

Interests

• arts
• writing
• literature
• theater
• street art
• picnic
• music
• languages
• plants
• writing letters

Music, Movies, and Books

Gabriel García Márquez is one of the favourites (Cien años de soledad is fantastic), José Saramago as well (O Evangelho segundo Jesus Cristo, Todos os Nomes), Valter Hugo Mãe has a phenomenal book called "O filho de mil homens". Virginia Woolf wrote "To the lighthouse" and it fascinates me, Jane Austen is a brilliant classic, Chimamanda Adichie, Mia Couto, Rafik Schami, Bernhard Schlink, Herta Müller and many others.

I like jazz and rock.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Baking skills, read poetry out loud, tell good stories :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, Peru, Russian Federation, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Germany