soy una persona simple con la mente complicada y el corazon desafinado.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

porque en el mundo hay gente muy linda que vale la pena conocer.

Interests

me gusta ser feliz.

• culture

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Are you comfortable being…

How can a young soul like mine be this reckless, how can a young soul like mine be this driven by the unknown.
The day after submerging myself to the unknown, the people who started out as strangers asked me the question that lead me to them in the first place: am I comfortable being? Am I comfortable being away from the people I call family, but most importantly, am I comfortable living under their conditions. This is when I discovered I never was, because no one ever is, how can anyone be comfortable knowing so little when there is so much to know. Tragedy often leads to greatness.
Transcendent thoughts such as our significance in this world may lead us to one of the best decisions we are capable of making, in my case Belgium. Last year I was part of a Rotary Exchange Program which opened my inner self to new horizons, and expanded my cultural knowledge even more. Being raised in Bolivia with a Brazilian mom, in an American school, made me question where we set the limit of diversity. My exchange raised and fed itself from this question, which soon I discovered had no answer. Learning one more culture, one more language, three different host families which implied different life styles, meeting more than two hundred exchange students, every single one with a unique background who became an essential part of my experience, visiting more than eleven countries.
No, there is no limit to diversity.
Consider these eleven countries as elven distinguished individuals, each individual adding to my own identity. For instance, consider Sweden the wise boy who taught me that identity is often misinterpreted, since identity is not concrete, it changes its shape every time a petal falls. As a case in point myself, I have become a more mature individual with an immerged cultural background, and realized that being oblivious to certain values is inevitable: time and the sheer amount of these hinder our knowledge of them. This is why I decided to follow those that I feel the closest to, the most important one creating you’re personal oneness. The Netherlands taught me the power of critique of social expectations. Who defines what is morally okay? Along with this tolerance developed and transformed itself into an explicit state of mind. Spain taught me that progress is achieved through heterogeneity. Heterogeneity is a very strong word, it defines the human race, or at least how it was born. In my exchange I learned through out different experiences and challenges that heterogeneity has to be pursued and not neglected, embraced and not oppressed. Antithesis proclaim peace, not war, it imitates nature. Foremost, Belgium taught me how to be comfortable in my own skin, and that despite not being able to feel comfortable in the world, there is still the remote chance of knowing that there is safety within.
December 21, the day my exchange was over, the day I knew I could never again define home but gave the unknown a definition. The unknown, where everything collides, where all the identities combine into one: your own. Words are defined by reason but perhaps we should question those criteria of definition in our inner selves, basing them on experiences: identity meaning diversity, diversity meaning individuals and individuals meaning complexity.
Thus I grew with a larger sense of curiosity and a more complex view of the cosmos.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Aruba, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil