I'm originally from Uruguay and living in New York since 2010. I worked at the United Nations as a Front End Web Developer for 6 years, and I'm in the process of finding a new job that I love and hacking my never ending education. I'm also a fitness enthusiast and a certified personal trainer. I love movies, books about atheism, Etta James, running half marathons and almost any type of food.

I live with my partner Mike, we met in 2011 and have been best friends since then! We got married in 2015 :)

"The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun."

Christopher Johnson McCandless / February 12, 1968 - August 18, 1992

"Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."

— Chris McCandless expanded on the original quote by Henry David Thoreau

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love traveling, exploring new places and cultures, and generating meaningful connection with people

Interests

I like all kind of stories. I'm in the process of writing one.

• writing
• books
• dining
• coffee
• movies
• traveling
• blogging
• friends
• hicking

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Fargo, Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive, Black Swan, Empire of the Sun, Les Quatre cents coups, Before Sunset and 2 days in Paris, Into The Wild

Film directors: From David Lynch to Steven Spilberg. In the middle: Gus Van Sant, Francois Ozon, Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton...

Music: David Bowie, Belle and Sebastian, The Kinks, New Order, Goldfrapp, Cat Power, Iron and Wine, Britney Spears (wtf! right?), The Libertines, White Stripes, MGMT...

TV shows: Six feet Under, Breaking Bad, Girls (yes, I love Girls!)

Books: How to be alone, A Confederacy of Dunces, Alexis ou le traité du vain combat, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, The Catcher in the Rye, Middlesex, Franny and Zooey, The Corrections...

Favourites writers: David Foster Wallace, J.D.Salinger, Jonathan Franzen, Cheever, Jeffrey Eugenides, Raymond Carver...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

In 2012 I wrote an open letter addressed to the head of one Uruguayans top universities, after the soon to be president of that institution made homophobic remarks to the press. The letter went viral and she had to resign. Here is an article Good Magazine wrote about the story: https://www.good.is/articles/how-the-four-leaf-clover-became-a-new-symbol-for-gay-rights

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Qatar, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin (French part), Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States, Uruguay

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