CURRENT MISSION

Find a new dimension of life and enjoy semplicity

ABOUT ME

I grew up in Pinerolo town, 35km far from Torino in the north/west of Italy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinerolo

I live here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64yeSG5SFBI

I studied Cross-Cultural Communication and Linguistics in Torino University

In 2007-2008 I spent 1 year in Cádiz (Spain) for the Erasmus project, it has been amazing and I keap in contact with my erasmus crew: we meet almost once a year!

Since 2009 I collaborate with the NGO YMCA Parthenope ONLUS: http://www.ymcaparthenope.eu/

In spring 2011 I did my 3 months universitary internship in the youth center "La Maison des Bateleurs" (Solidarités Jeunesses), in France close to Bordeaux.

In 2012 I have been living in Apucarana (Brazil) for the Italian Civic Service, after I finished I trevelled through Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Saudade..

I did the European Voluntary Service in a Dutch organization close to Zwolle, I have been living there for the whole 2014.

I am involved in a NGO, active in youth work, we make youth exchanges and trainings in Italy and abroad finded by Erasmus Plus program. Vagamondo is the name of the organization : https://www.facebook.com/AssociazioneVagamondo/

PHILOSOPHY

I like getting inspired by people with different backgrounds, leave and bring with me nice memories of those encounters.

"Véngase, che, [...] Esa maldita tierra no es para usted; no vale la pena vivir como las piedras en un solo lugar."
-F. Coloane, El australiano-

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

SURFED:

MAR 2011 | Aguttes Pierre [Sylvie Galesne] (Toulouse-France)
APR 2011 | Alice Ruland (Bayonne-France)
JUL 2011 | Evelyn Farfan (from Perù / in Antwerp-Belgium)
AUG 2011 | Esra Ere (from Ankara-Turkey / in Malta)
APR-MAY 2012 | Herick Benatto e Gisele Alves (Londrina-Brazil)
APR 2012 | Francielly Camilo (Londrina-Brazil)
MAY 2012 | Paulo Vasconcelos (Londrina-Brazil)
MAY 2012 | Marcio Pedroso (Rolândia-Brazil)
MAY 2012 | Lucas Zoéga de Carvalho (Londrina-Brazil)
MAY 2012 | Flavia Alves and Felipe Laufer (Curitiba-Brazil)
AUG 2012 | Lauren Johanson (from Boston-USA / in Londrina-Brazil)
AUG 2012 | Gemerzon Formenton (Ciudad del Este-Paraguay)
AUG 2012 | Javier Imwinkelried (Santa Fé-Argentina)
AUG 2012 | Iván Ezequiel Cótica (Rosario-Argentina)
AUG 2012 | Jarrod Sheehan (from Sydney / in Buenos Aires-Arg.)
AUG-SEP 2012 | Bruno Alfarano (from Salta / in Buenos Aires)
SEP 2012 | Mariel Lawlor (Montevideo)
SEP 2012 | Fabiana Yamaue (Florianópolis)
SEP 2012 | Dimitri Bessa (Londrina)
DEC 2012 | Matijs Mihelmanis (Riga)
JAN 2013 | Silvestrs Lusis & Sanita Lūse (Riga)
MAR 2013 | KorayCanCanut(Istambul)&MarkEgan(Irl.)in Maastricht
APR 2013 | Octavio Cervantes (from Dutch Antilles / in Oslo)
APR 2013 | David Ueland (from Stavanger / in Oslo)
JUL 2013 | Tuchkus (Tadas) (Kaunas)
AUG 2013 | Toni Carneros (Barcelona)
AUG 2013 | Herick & Gisele Benatto (from Londrina, BR - in Lisboa)
AUG 2013 | Kateřina Kozáková (from Prague ,CZ - in Coimbra)
AUG 2013 | David Tuga (Porto)
JAN 2014 | Sunitha Mentior (Liège)
MAY 2014 | Jelena Mitrovic and Marko (Podgorica)
MAY 2014 | Alex Fromrio (from Rio de Janeiro, in Den Haag)
MAY-JUN 2014 | Henk Zuidema (Groningen)
JUN-JUL 2014 | Riccardo V. Vincelli (from Monza [IT], in Amsterdam)
AUG 2014 | Xiaobing Kong (from Changsha [China], in Amsterdam)
AUG 2014 | Bart VdV (Breda)
AUG 2014 | Pascal Seeldrayers and Nicola Asnong (Antwerp)
SEP 2014 | Lukasz Madera (from Poland, in Rotterdam)
OCT 2014 | Fabien Bastian (from Strasburg [FR], in Freiburg )
DEC 14 - JAN 15 | Herick & Gisele Benatto (from Londrina [BR], in Kopenhagen)
JAN 2015 | Karsten Schulze (from Berlin, in Hamburg)
OCT 2017 | Bartolomè Parra (Almeria, Spain)
OCT 2017 | Alejandro Psiurski (Buenos Aires)
OCT 2017 | Mauro Sabattini (Rosario, Argentina)
OCT 2017 | Felix Andre (Cordoba, Argentina)
OCT 2017 | Luz and Carlos Canepa (Salta, Argentina)

Hosted:

JUL 2011 | Pablo Colombino (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
SEP 2011 | Jason Wu (London, England)
FEB 2012 | Iulian Bocancea (Iasi, Romania)
MAR 2012 | Miguel Villoria Recio (Salamanca, Spain)
JUN 2012 | Herick Benatto e Gisele Alves dos Reis (Londrina - Brazil)
APR 2013 | Irene Soffietti (Oncino (CN) - Italy)
DEC 2013 | Csenge Zelei + Peti and Teri (Budapest)
JUN 2017 | Fabrizio Gallo (Cortemilia, IT) & Merche Memore (Casariche, ES)
OCT 2017 | Bartolomè Parra (Almeria, Spain)

Met:

APR 2012 | Sami Hvidtfeldt (Copenaghen / in Londrina - Brazil)
APR 2012 | Jonathan Fjord (Copenaghen / in Londrina - Brazil)
APR-SEP 2012 | Rodrigo do Amaral Munhoz (Londrina - Brazil)
APR-MAY 2012 | Priscila Abrahao (Londrina - Brazil)
JUL 2012 | Davide Vecchio (Pavia - Italy)
JUL 2012 | Dahab Garcia avila (Veracruz, Mexico / in Pavia - Italy)
AUG 2012 | Pamela Ghione (Rosario)
DEC 2012 | Alise Dimanta avila (Riga)
APR 2013 | Arisa Vecchiet (Trieste)
AUG 2013 | Ricardo Silva (Amadora)
AUG 2013 | Vasco Galante (Sintra)
OCT 2017 | Pablo el Correcaminos (Tigre - Buenos Aires)

Interests

I like travelling, meeting different people, discovering their habits, their city or place where they live, their vision of the world.

I love nature, warm weather, reading (especially travel literature), learning languages, wild beaches, karaoke, cooking, volleyball, parties, dinners with few friends, good wine, stay with my friends.

• animals
• literature
• dining
• italian food
• cooking
• wine
• meditation
• reading
• traveling
• karaoke
• camping
• volleyball
• history
• languages
• study abroad
• beaches
• nature
• trekking

Music, Movies, and Books

FILM: Videocracy, Zeitgeist, Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Green fried tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe, The Beach, The Game...

MUSIC: Manu Chao, 99 Posse, Carmen Consoli, Subsonica, Los Delincuentes, Ismael Serrano, Chambao, Los Aslandticos...

BOOKS: Vagabonding (Rolf Potts), Luis Sepùlveda, Alessandro Baricco, Francisco Coloane, Reunion (Fred Uhlman)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

July 2013 - October 2014 Starting from 0 I prepared and runned and Half Maraton in 1:51

August 2013, I hitchhiked alone from Lisboa to Italy in 3 days, unforgettable.

July 2013, I cicled 50 km under the rain from Vilnius to the border with Belarus, then 4 saunas and 3 jumps in the lake! ...and I puked

March 2013, firewalk in The Netherlands.

August 2011, I took care of marine turtles with a Turkish couchsurfer who was working in a marine animal shelter in Malta.

When I was a child I got lost in Sahara desert.

Teach, Learn, Share

Show my city and its history, how to make Tiramisù or other Italian food, share a nice bottle of wine and the point of vew.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Teaching Italian, cooking together

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain

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