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Overview

  • 10 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Italian; learning English
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2017
  • sound designer and voiceover artist (self-employed)
  • Liceo Classico (Italian High school)
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About Me

Meeting new people is a nice experience. But there's more to it than that. Learning a new word, doing a new thing, interacting with a new person leads to being new each time in a different way, Couchsurfing is about taking a leap towards unknown awareness. New cultures, new habits, new recipes, new ways to taste the life in its unpredicable bittersweet flavours. That's the way our perspectives get wider and life deeper. I believe lifes worth living are not the longest but the deepest.

There are many opportunities to share out there. What are we waiting for?

p. s.: perhaps, flipping through my photos, you might be wondering whether I'm a singer or not, since I shot some of them near a microphone. Well, if you can't help getting the mistery unveiled you can have a look here https://www.greatbritishvoices.co.uk/international-voice-overs/italian-male-vo2

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

CS helps me a lot with getting to know interesting people whom I'd otherwise never meet in my life. I think people far away from the standard are to be considered a chance for having a glimpse of how kaleidoscopic and multifaceted the worlds is. Thanks to a friend of mine (he's been a couchsurfer for a long time) I've met people from Australia, Sweden, Netherland, France, Taiwan and so on.

Interests

  • traveling
  • trekking

Music, Movies, and Books

I like Fabrizio De Andrè, Mannarino, Libague, The Cranberries, Queen, Linkin Park, Depeche Mode...

I'm keen on movies that leave you with a messagge like Magdalene, Trainspotting, Neverland - Un sogno per la vita, Angela's ashes. And what about "Into the Wild"? Terrific, isnt'ti? I enjoyed very much "La ragazza della canzone" ("The girl from the song") shot in the open spaces of Nevada Desert.

But I don't disdain comedy as well. What discourages me from going to the cinema are that kind of movies full of blasts, yells and brutal violence. We need a plot, darm! ;)

I don't read as I used to recently. But I much appreciated "Delitto e castigo", "I fratelli Karamazov", "Resurrezione" and other Russian novels. The Italian author I feel a special likeness with is Alessandro Baricco ("Mr Gwyn", "Novecento"). I'm currently reading the Argentinian writer Borges ("Oral").

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I performed in front of many people during a national contest for actors. The crazy thing is that I never did a thing like that before! I'm used to perform in front of a mic, in my recording studio not in front of an audience. Everything went fine! It was a real jolt of adrenaline!!! I want more...

http://www.anfiteatrodelvittoriale.it/notizie/premio-piu-luce-finalisti/

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We set out to go hiking with some CS last year. Unluckily for us we found that the access leading to the caves was closed. We bravely climbed the high fence and we managed to explore the area through a narrow path until we reached our destination. We were not allowed to be there and it was dangerous but the risk was definitely worth it.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm honing my English by taking lessons from a native UK teacher. But nothing compares to conversations with Couchsurfers. That's real life and we can learn from each other.
I can teach you playing guitar, from simple chords to complex arpeggios.
I'm learning to cook but it's more preferable if I would limit myself to simply share some recipes...

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy

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