A curious curious person, yes, I'm an intriguing intrigued person. What I mean is that I'm always searching for knowledge, nothing is boring for me, everything has a place , a function, an origin. I take that from my father, he is a philosopher and holistic healer. My family is Brazilian, from São Paulo. We left Brazil in 1985 and have lived in New York and France, now settled in Lisbon. Me and my sister have been in London for 4 years now, there's a lot to explore here and we are not finished yet.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm couch surfing because I want to connect with different people and see how they live and how they see the world. This is part of my latest project, it's is a study of perception, education and culture. How these circumstances change our lives, and wether our character is absolute or moulded by our experiences.

Interests

As I said before, everything interests me, but for the sake of clarity I'll only mention my most popular tendencies.
Science, mechanical things (like bicycles, scissors, mills, stuff pre Industrial Age) Nature, specially tropical flora.
Techniques of craftsmanship (like weaving, dying, soulding, )
Social dynamics and history.
Music
Comics
Illustration

• culture
• photography
• illustrations
• dancing
• education
• modeling
• crafts
• gardening
• comics
• crochet
• knitting
• painting
• drawing
• magic
• music
• fishing
• hunting
• surfing
• sailing
• teaching
• history
• philosophy
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: romantic Classical music, old ska and blue beat, diy punk, film soundtracks, African (funana, kizomba, South African choir, Ethi blues, etc)
Tropicalia, old Samba, Brazilian folk music, folk in general.
To dance I like stuff from Ray Charles and Sandy Nelson to Major Lazer and Beyoncé. Also enjoy bashment, dancehall and drum n bass.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A short film with my best friend.

Dear Carlos Alberto by Aurora Ribeiro, on Vimeo.

I won two awards for scriptwriting, the film won several international prizes including India and Georgia.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach some crazy dance moves, drawing, photography, painting, I can also pose as I was once a live model for artists. A few crafts like crochet, knitting, macramé, sewing, poster making, story and scriptwriting.

I would like to lean how to:
tap dance, or any dance really. Right now I only do freestyle.
Carpentry and joinery
Gardening
Sailing
Parkour
Acrobatics
Magic tricks
Fishing
Hunting - gathering

What I Can Share with Hosts

My house keeping skills and cookery for starts. Also my day and handy man services which are quite good and decorating.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Portugal, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Portugal, United Kingdom, United States