CURRENT MISSION

step out of the comfort zone

ABOUT ME

I was born in Florianópolis, Brasil, and am currently living in São Paulo. I work for a cultural institution and I love what I do. Friends say I'm a calm and smiling person. I'm easygoing and organized. And I like travelling more than anything!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Although I joined Couchsurfing long ago, it was only in 2013 I decided to give it a try. I was going to spend my vacations in Argentina all by myself and wanted to meet people while travelling. And I have met very interesting people through Couchsurfing and have had only positive experiences since then, which encourages me to keep using it and now also to make my own couch available for surfers.

Interests

I really enjoy meeting new people, hearing their stories and sharing stories of my own, discovering the different aspects from one culture to the other. I also like going to the movies and expositions, walking around the city on weekends, discovering new restaurants and coffee shops, taking day trips to the beach and the countryside, inviting my friends over for dinner. I love movies, music, books, visual arts, photography, traveling, cooking, discussing social and environmental matters and learning new languages.

• cats
• arts
• culture
• books
• photography
• cooking
• coffee
• walking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• rock climbing
• anthropology
• archeology
• history
• journalism
• languages
• visual arts
• beaches
• nature

Music, Movies, and Books

well, this is just hard... I'm afraid the list would be endless!

some writers: joão guimarães rosa, graciliano ramos, manoel de barros, joão gilberto nöll, clarice lispector, ana cristina césar, jorge luis borges, julio cortázar, gabriel garcía marques, eduardo galeano, pablo neruda, albert camus, marguerite duras. alejandra pizarnik, chimamanda ngozi adichie, elena ferrante, margaret atwood.

music: vinicius de moraes, gilberto gil, caetano veloso, maria bethânia, cartola, tim maia, ney matogrosso, villa-lobos, mercedes sosa, jorge drexler, cesaria évora, mayra andrade, yael naim, ismael lo, buena vista social club, duke ellington, ella fitzgerald, nina simone, david bowie, and, yes, all the tacky sticky pop songs :).

cinema: glauber rocha, joaquim pedro de andrade, eduardo coutinho, walter salles, karim aïnouz, marcelo gomes, juan josé campanella, lucrecia martel, pablo trapero, asghar farhadi, jafar panahi, abdellatif kechiche, kiarostami, michael haneke, agnès varda, ken loach, nanni moretti, and so many others, especially in Argentinian, Iranian, French and Romenian cinematographies.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watching the sun going down over the sea at Florianópolis, enjoying São Paulo's cultural scene every weekend (and sunday walks around Avenida Paulista), ice-trekking on Glaciar Perito Moreno, visiting the Masai people at Masai Mara park in Kenya, climbing the Huayna Picchu mountain in Macchu Picchu, losing my breath in Isla del Sol, enjoying life for a whole year in the beautiful Paris, getting to know snowy Moscow, joining the Tapati Festival in Isla de Pascua, exploring all the wild and rough remote terrains and then soaking in hot pots while circling the ring road in Iceland, doing research and enjoying summer break in Buenos Aires, making at least one new best friend every day in Iran (and pretty much everything else the country has to offer), and hearing great stories from the elderly in the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil), where they cook the best traditional dishes I've ever tasted. And much much more!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Italy, Kenya, Lithuania, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, France