Brazilian, deeply fascinated by cultural diferences, always willing for new experiences and challenges.

• Currently living in Czech Republic, studying Political Science at the University of Hradec Králové, and trying to travel as much as I can around Europe.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

"There are many worlds. Each is different. Each is important. And one must learn with them, because these other worlds, these other cultures, are mirrors in which we can see ourselves, thanks to which we understand ourselves better - for we cannot define our own identity until having confronted that of others, as comparison."
Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuściński.

Interests

• arts
• culture
• literature
• photography
• politics
• traveling
• music
• live music
• classical music
• jazz
• piano
• hiking
• backpacking
• history
• international relations
• languages
• political science
• films
• nature
• adventure
• museums
• gastronomy
• diplomacy
• samba
• bossa nova
• cultural experiences

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Jazz (Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Glenn Miller, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone);
Classical (Chopin, Liszt, Beethoven, Scriabin, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Mozart, Bach, Vivaldi, Verdi, Dvořák, Smetana, Mahler, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Strauss, Wagner, Ravel, Grieg, Villa-Lobos);
Brazilian (Cartola, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Tom Jobim, Toquinho, Jorge Ben Jor, João Gilberto, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Maria Gadú, Novos Baianos, Natiruts...);
solo singers (Amy Winehouse! Jorja Smith, Mayra Andrade, Pauline Croze, Céu, Rodrigo Amarante, Tash Sultana, Ben L’Oncle Soul and many many others);
Rock (Pink Floyd, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns n’ Roses, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, The Black Keys, The Strokes, The Kooks...) and so on.

Movies: anything by Kubrick, Nolan or Tarantino.

TV shows: Mr. Robot, Game of Thrones, House of Cards, The Handmaid’s Tale, Westworld, Black Mirror, Breaking Bad, Narcos, The Crown, Sherlock, HTGAWM, etc. (mostly sci-fi and political/historical stuff).

Books: history, international relations, modern literature (Márquez, Saramago, Kafka, Camus), Nietzsche for cloudy days, Brazilian poetry (Vinicius de Moraes, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Machado de Assis, Mario Quintana, Manoel Bandeira, Ariano Suassuna, Clarice Lispector, Hilda Hilst, Cecília Meireles, Cora Coralina, Paulo Leminski)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Montenegro, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Czech Republic, United States