CURRENT MISSION
Hello guys!! I am Andrea, from Italy. I will travel alone with my tent and my Charango (string instrument
from south america)from Faro 19th July. I need to arrive in the end of July to Castelo de Vide, where I will
play at the festival Andancas, and I will move hitchiking or whatever probably through the west costa
alentejana, with my music and thoughts! If you want to jam with me, have a beer or an hug contact me!! I am
looking foward to know a new culture!

ABOUT ME

UNTIL DEC 2015
My goal right now is exploring south east Asia, with my girlfriend Clara. Now it is almost 6 months we are been travelling.
We are now in Indonesia, Sulawesi island.
We are travelling cheap, slow, often volunteering, to better know the people, society and tradition of every place of this amazing and strange Asia! We dont have a return ticket to come back home, just because we dont want any limit and... you never know!

Now it is almost 6 months we are been travelling in Asia. We are now in Indonesia, Sulawesi island.

I am an engineer and Clara is a psychologist. I left my job and now I want to explore more, inside and outside. We love to work with kids, and we are volunteering as much as possible!

We are travelling with 2 guitars..we are not musician but we play with the heart!

WE WANT TO KNOW YOU!

OLD PROFILE (4 years ago)
I am a 25 years old boy, open minded who likes to try new things, discover new places, share ideas and meet people.
My goal of the moment is to live in a more social way, with more contact with nature and eploring my spirituality, like living in a rural community! I have already done it but I want more :))
Well, I will write just what it comes up from my mind, like a flow of thoughts..Since I was a teenager I always thought that stay still, pretending to be satisfied with what we have, not opening the door of your mind, it's like living a fake life, it's a waste of time...So at the age of 18 I run away from Trapani, too small and static. I went to Rome to study, then Norway (I wanted to live somwhere really dirfferent) initially for Erasmus, but I stayed there for 3 summers to work as a fishseller and souvenir seller, meeting workers like me coming from ALL over the world (maybe u dont know but u really take good money working there...), sharing with them experiences, languages, emotions, dreams and ideas. Then came back in Rome I understood that I have to continue travelling, living abroad, to understand more, to live more, to see more, to taste life more and more. And doing that I am always feeling good with myself. I think that even if you dont know what u like, you can feel what you like. Well, I don't know why but I love to travel! But travelling for me is not visiting places for few days. It's living there! It's knowing people that lives there, that live like their society want them to live, and then compare with me, with my way of see the stuff. You can find a place in the earth where people eat dogs, or worms. When I was a kid you learn that they are not food. But the, when you see people enjoying eating those stuff, thinking it's normal for them, well, you will understand the meaning of food, the idea that is UNDER the concept of food that we learnt. I want to apply this way of discovering truth and life to everything, from jobs to love. With the aim of beginning of discover the world of an engineer, I applied for a stage in Toulouse, where u can find lot a jobs in the engineering field. Well, I worked in a reasearch laboratory, I didn't like them...but I love Toulouse! Full of young peoples, full of life, big and small, u can go by bike everywhere (ah yes I love go biking), nature not too far, I decided to stay there for some other months after my stage, working part time and studying for my last exam. And I decided that I will stay there at least until May 2011, after taking my master, working harder to earn money to travel... My concept of working "hard"? well working ad much as you can with something I like (probably not engineering stuff then!), trying to understand with job I like, what I am searching in a job, but never forgetting to live. Always having time for a beer, for friends, for people I dont know. My main objective isnot money, but is discovering...what am I looking for!? I am sure life can give me everything, too much stuff, but what I really need to be happy? Well...now I believe emotions...emotions are the more important things in life. Too general? Yes! And it's right, maybe you can find emotions in every place in the world. But every place in the world, at a given time, can give you only some limited emotions, you will listen to the same kind of music, you will meet the same people, you will see the same sunset. Those things can be wonderful, can provide you some wmotions, but only some kind. They are limited. You fell the same thing listening to rock music or classic music? I fell great when I listen to music, but every song make me feel something different. I want to discover all those differences...all those hidden and far emotions. And to do this I believe you have to change your sunset....travelling not visiting. Deeply discovering new things, not only seeing them from the outside. What make me feel emotions most? Nature, music, people. I do excursions, I play and listen music, I talk with people. Always having my heart open. But I am still feeling a rookie in feeling emotions. I am an engineer you know? I was bealiving that what we are good in, we automatically like. I am good in math and I was pretending to like it. But I discovered it wasnt true, and I began to focus on things that I FEEL to love, not THINK to love. Nature, music, people. What I doing now is to discover more about those ones, but I want also to try other fields of arts, like poetry and painting....somebody said me that they can provide you emotions...well the last time I read a poetry was in high school...and I thought it was useless. At that time I was just thinking , not feeling...

PHILOSOPHY

Something it's written in the "All about you" field...didn't have the time to split them yet!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I want to meet people, boys girls, young old, that want to share with me something. We can learn from each other and enjoying doing that!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted some people in toulouse, south of France, and I have been host in Spain, Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia!

Interests

People, Nature, Children, Music ( we are travelĺing with 2 guitars)

• dogs
• arts
• poetry
• folklore
• dining
• beer
• running
• traveling
• socializing
• juggling
• painting
• music
• rock music
• guitar
• piano
• cycling
• fishing
• engineering
• languages
• mathematics
• psychology
• study abroad
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Osho, Coelho, Dylan Dog, Pink floyd, Buddha bar, modena city ramblers, Pixies, Einaudi, Bob Dylan, Dandy Warlhols, Battisti, Andres Calamaro, weezer, clapton, ligabue, creedence clearwater revival, Tinturia, Mando diao, Tho kooks, Olmo, Monty Phyton, Into the wild, Fight Club, Jackass, Coen brothers, Back to the future, PF: Live at Pompei

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Gone fishing in the Arctic seaSeen the midnight sunListened to my sister playing piano while I am dreaming on the sofaThe sunset by the sea in front of my house in SicilySeen the stars when it is COMPLETELY dark around mePink floyd - High hopesSold whales in Norway

Teach, Learn, Share

uhmm...I can maybe teach juggling and playing guitar...but for sure to make pizza!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Our smile and music

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cambodia, Denmark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy, Norway, United Kingdom

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