I'm a graduate student at the University of Connecticut. Originally I'm from Puerto Rico. I've been living in CT for almost 4 months now. I left Puerto Rico searching for a new place to reflect and taking a break from my environment. My passions are reading literature, which can include philosophy, crime novels (noir), existencial, absurdist, etc. I love reading, period. I like to jay walk a lot through new and old places without a particular destiny. I'm a writer in progress and literature critic in denial.

I'm an external and internal explorer.
I just want to live.
Also, I am a lover of cats and dogs.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm falling in love with traveling the more I get out, I yearn for new experiences everyday and to meet different people from different cultures, learning other ways of life and understanding how big the world can be.

It's like Andrés Cepeda says:
"Dicen que viajando se fortalece el corazón, pues andar nuevos caminos te hace olvidar el ant

Interests

• reading
• traveling
• solo travel
• adventure travel
• walking around
• reading and writing

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorites books: Crime & Punishment (Dostoievsky), Nause (Jean-Paul Sartre), Mist (Unamuno), Ensayo sobre la Ceguera y Claraboia (José Saramago)

Favorite music: Pretty much everything.

Favorite movies: A lot of series, the MCU, and crime movies and series.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I climb the top of El Yunque, which is a the only tropical forest in the US Forest System with travelers from Colombia and New York. It was amazing to me that living all my life in Puerto Rico, I've never thought about going there and I just saw one of the most amazing views ever, the mist, the cold temperature, the wind, the beauty of the mountains and the sound of silence really stuck on my memory and my heart.

Teach, Learn, Share

La felicidad no le viene por consecuencia a la lombriz. Es una condición condicionada a la tierra que la condena a su felicidad. No se puede ser feliz en una vida donde se nace llorando, escuché alguna vez. Pero vamos, muchas de las veces uno existe por una explosión química entre dos seres. Producto del placer o del amor o de ambas, Nemesio Canales pregunta si "¿podemos ser felices?" Yo le contestaría con una copa en la mano, una diosa en la memoria y una sonrisa alevosa: "esta noche sí".

Un día a la vez, siempre puede convertirse en una vida, a la vez.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Passion for life itself, Puerto Rican culture (music and food, for example), good conversations about almost anything.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Dominican Republic, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Puerto Rico, United States