CURRENT MISSION

Find a new place, a new city, a new home for me. Start since zero.

ABOUT ME

"The town and city", this title of a book by Jack Kerouac could define myself. I was born in a little village of the north of spain called Santoña. I grew up between fisherman's and proletarians in a nature, quiet and closed environment. But when I was young I had a lot of imagination and a lot of passion about books, and I started to dream with a world different of mine that I read in books or saw in the films. I'm a son of the XX century, of course. So I had all of the capitalism dreams that always said us that life is a road with one way direct to success, and success direct to love. Do you know? Princes and princesses :)

At the age of eighteen I decided to dropped out my village for to go the university and discover the big cities. That experience changed my life. I was in contact with different ways of life, in a more stimulating environment, surrounded by young people with a lot of eager to life. Party's, culture, art... The changes of myself were more faster. I discovered my best point, my worst points... But one day I thought that I needed more and for this reason, and for the influence of books again, I started to travel. I was in south america during nine months, I was in Europe too, and I come back to the university for to finish my studies. It was a good moment of my life. I deepened in the relation with my friend, I felt more confident, more close to my feelings; and moreover I got a place at a school of artist in which he had always wanted to enter and I found a little piece of love. Yes, I felt successful. But at the end life is not a road with one direction. I don't know what happened this last year in these residence because everything changed. A night, white walls and a lot of feelings of lonelyness appear in me. A feeling that I'm not in the right way. Something it didn't work in my life. But why? I don't know.

For this reason I abandoned the residence and came back to San Sebastian for to think. I was working in the cinema, in a club and in a bakery during the summer, and I decided to change absolutly my life. Not more spain, not more basque country for a while. Why? I want to star again without think in the future. Only to find a good place for me, to have a simple life, and to be like leaf swaying in time.

Why am I saying all of these things? Because I think that they are so important. I am in special moment in my life. I am 25 years old and I discovered that life is more similar to a wheel than a road. Success is important, but not so much. Life is more than books, but not so much. Connect with people is essencial for real, and discover how to express yourself with them is essencial too.

Yes, I am a town and city guy because I think that I have charactericts from these two different worlds. For right hand I'm simple, open and close to the others and that enjoy the pleasure of the conversation, nature... In the left hand I am a city guy. People, party, concerts, arts, stress of course and the feeling of not settling. But this countradiction always isn't good.

I don't now if these words have sense, but I think that they have a little about me :)

PHILOSOPHY

In my youth it was more complicated to say what it was my phylosophy. Now it's more simple. It can be summarized in these verses:

"I was in another lifetime one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness a creature void of form
'Come in' she said
'I'll give you shelter from the storm'."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQR-o4nO1E

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I started my experience in CS in Valpariso, Chile. Since that moment I started to offer my couch to other surfers, and of course I surfed other couches.
In the last year I was a little bit distanced to CS because I was living in a residence, so I hadn't couch, and I was very busy for work. But now I am in a new step, and all the things have changed. So... I'm here again!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I find the experience of CS very rewarding for me. I had amazing experiences with CS, I met with people that changed my life or that did me more alive and connected. Sometimes the experience wasn't so impressive. Maybe for to be very different between us, or maybe for to have other ways of living. But always it was worth.

If I learned something about my experience in CS is that the majority of problems between host and surfer happens when them have a different way to understand the experience. There are host that wants to spend all the time with the surfer or that they planed all the day for the surfer. First here, later there... This is not my way. I think that all the people that experienced a long travel knows that when you are travelling you go through a lot of different moods. For this reasons usually when I hosted travelers I gave them their own space. And for this reasons I would like the same. At the end the things are easier. This is just to be natural, listen the feelings of the other and yours too. When the host/surfer forget for a while that there isn't need to be trapped in the role of host/surfer, and refers to the experience as a relationship between two stragers, the relation is more natural, more simple, and usually more rewarding. Sometimes you find a host/surfer and want to spend time with her/him, and sometimes for other reasons you don't want. It can be because you don't feel well, or because have a lot of work... It doesn't matter.

I think it is just to listen and be heard. When this happens thins always go well.

Interests

Books, travels, the big spaces, the roads, the lights of the city, the silent of the countryside, people, amazing people.
But for now I'm looking things that awake my interest for something new.

• arts
• culture
• books
• singing
• concerts
• dancing
• environment
• partying
• clubbing
• movies
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Before in this paragraph I had a long list with books, music and films. But it doesn'worth. I think with the last three books and last three singers/groups can be enought, because they have impacted in me in the last months. Some are old, some more new, but they are.

Last three books with impact in my life:
1) Tropic of Capricornio, by Henry Miller (In special the chapter Coda)
2) A man in love, by Karl Knausgard.
3) Vanity of Dulouz, by Jack Kerouac (The other face of Kerouac)

Last three singers/groups:
1) Alt-J ("An awesome wave")
2) Klangkarrusel ("We were your soul")
3) Mumford & Sons ("Babel)
*Mention to The Smiths and Bob Dylan because they are always in my life.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw a lot of crazy-sensitive-generous-artist people in the roads, losing themselves in a eternal search for nothing.
But I saw a lot of these people smiling, singing, jumping, dancing, sharing their lifes with me, that I am a absolutly lost too. And it was incredible :)

Teach, Learn, Share

I think that we discover what we can learn to the other when we meet face to face. Maybe something important, maybe something funny, maybe nothing. Who knows!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, France, Malta, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Spain

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