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  • 16 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Japanese, Sign Language - Japanese
  • 35, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • swim teacher/travel agent
  • Interpreter and translator. European tourism University.
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Hear your beat!!!! Finding my way..

ABOUT ME

I'm open-minded, friendly, easy-going, empathetic, very active.
animals, music, sports, everything that is water-related are my biggest passions.

the best life time ever is when traveling around and starting new adventures abroad!
sometime I am a bit stargazing.. too much dreamer.. and free spirit
SEA ADDICT

PHILOSOPHY

Là ou es ton coeur, là est ta maison

Trust in the Universe Energy

curiosity makes u smarter!!

VIAJAR ES LA MEJOR FORMA DE PERDERSE Y ENCONTRARSE AL MISMO TIEMPO

LA LEGGE DEL CONTRAPPASSO DI DANTE ALIGHIERI

you have to feed your curiosity every day, don't let it died! eyes and ears open every second!Stay tuned.

Live AT FULLEST and enjoy as much as possible in this crazy life...is only one

Feeling the mystical of Mother Nature and being enchanted from natural wonders

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I think that it is a huge idea!!!! the real way to get closer to local life and share good moment not as tourist but as a person with a name, identity and own history

it's nice to have friends from all over the world

Interests

Waternity. Ocean and wild life passionate.
animals, nature, sports, swimming, travel and eating every typical meals from each country in this world..it's nice to taste all!

look up at the stars in the night sky

sunset lover

and GOOD VIBES

I'm also a good wine lover and most of all I love to discover local liqueurs or "after dinner"

At the moment here my top list:

Italian ones or as we say "Digestivo"

1st:
NOCINO - it's a sticky dark brown liqueur from North Italy. It is made from unripe green walnuts

2nd:
LIQUORICE Liqueur - also called in italian black soul (anima nera), its sweet and digestive liqueur with a black liquorice flavour from South Italy

3rd:
LIMONCELLO - famous everywhere in the world - the taste of south Italy lemons has no rivals

Foreign liqueurs:

1st place:
el exquisito RON MIEL - it's rum with honey made in Canary Island, Spain

2nd place:
creamy AMARULA - liqueur from South Africa - the name come from Marula trees (Only once a year they do bear fruit and this become Africa's elephants favourite ones)

3rd place:
UMESHU (梅酒) - it's the Japanese Plum liqueur -sweet/sour flavour very famous in Japan!

  • animals
  • salsa dancing
  • tango
  • environment
  • cooking
  • traveling
  • music
  • sailing
  • sports
  • astronomy
  • nature
  • adventures
  • plants
  • ocean
  • stars
  • homeopathy
  • medicinal plants
  • atardeceres
  • shooting stars
  • solo traveling
  • open ocean swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIE:
love movies:
"Canone Inverso" (a great violinist and pianist love story), "Chico y Rita" (a great cuban love story).

"historical" movies: "AMADEUS", "THE LAST SAMURAI", "THE IMITATION GAME", "EXODUS", "300", "HEART OF THE SEA", "GLADIATOR", "THE MISSION", "ULYSSES (1954)", "THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS", "THE LEGEND OF 1900"

other movies: "BIG WEDNESDAY", "El secreto de sus ojos" "DJANGO", "Big Fish", "The Guardian", "Pulp Fiction" "Shutter island", "Nightmare before Christmas", "Sansone", "Finding Nemo", "The Italian Job", "Black Orfeus", "THELMA&LOUISE", "Amelie", "The Millionaire" (last version 2008)

series: "Dexter", "the Mentalist", "Hawaii Five-0" "Narcos"

all kind of documentaries about nature, WILD ANIMAL and wild life

Music: Jazz music, Classic music switched from Bach, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky etc.. to Astor Piazzolla, Nino Rota, ENNIO MORRICONE and more;Camerata Romeu, Estrella Morente; Ibrahim Ferrer, Buena vista social club; spanish, italian, french and american hip hop as SFDK, ZENIT, VIOLADORES DEL VERSO, Rapsus klei, ecc..IAM, AKENATHON, KENY ARKANA etc.. 2PAC, JEDI MIND TRICKS, BIG PUN, SNOOP DOG, NAS DAMIAN MARLEY etc...; PINK FLOYD, THE QUEEN, THE DOORS; Atmosphere; PORTISHEAD, MASSIVE ATTACK, raggaeton, raggae, BOB MARLEY; Dub step, BAJO FONDO TANGO CLUB,alejandro sanz, joaquin sabina, los delincuentes, el barrio, Luis Miguel etc.
Tricky, Maître Gims, kameleba, Amy Winehouse, Saint German, Chambao, Lou reed, Jhonny Cash, Subsonica, Canteca de Macao, Regina Spektor, Calle 13, FUGEES, SEAN PAUL, Alpha blondy, Jesse cook, bebo valdes, Soha, Aphew twin, Yann Tiersen, Iggy Pop, Vargo, Pulp, GOTAN PROJECT

BOOKS:
"The alchemist" PAULO COELHO
"La danza della realtà" Alejandro Jodorowsky
"Piccola filosofia del mare" Cecil Gerard

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I carry on my heart all my travels abroad because travelling is the most exciting thing in the world!discover other realities!We are not alone!it's a way to enrich our mind and spirit! it's the best way to live this life

I spent 27 nights working on a Prawn Trawler in the Tropics, it has been insane but I loved it!

Worked on a whale watching boat, and enjoyed whales, dolphins, turtles, mantas and sharks every day!

Ocean swim in Australia
2.5 k and 3 k

swimming in maldives coral barrier among plenty of incredible colours

swimming with whale sharks in okinawa

see free dolphins show in the indian ocean

take care of my cat/dogs and their puppies..

IGUAZU waterfalls

seeing lions hunting just in front of me in south africa

shark cage diving

become a SCUBA DIVER IN MOZAMBIQUE

Teach, Learn, Share

live alive

HEAR YOUR BEAT

the desire to learn or know about anything; inquisitiveness

What I Can Share with Hosts

my positive energy and funny time!

italian cuisine, teaching spanish, Italian or Spanish, showing the Eternal City or I can teach u to swim and dive

go with the flow

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Maldives, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Belgium, Italy, Spain

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