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  • Fluent in English, French, Portuguese, Spanish; learning German
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • I'm a eternal student (and a writer, and a musician, and ...
  • I was educated with magic, openmindness, creativity and l...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To discover human diversity

ABOUT ME

I lived for 17 years in Argentina, 4 years in Bariloche and the rest in San Pedro (a small city near Buenos Aires). I did my high school there and I also took English classes, theater, dance, literature and singing.
My family and I moved to Québec in April 2004. I learned French and did the Cégep (postsecondary studies) in Literature, in the city of Sherbrooke.
On September 2007 I moved to Montréal with my sister and I studied at McGill University. I did a double major, combining Sociology and Littérature française. I love it.
I was blessed with a daughter in 2013 and I was driven to the world of respected birth and maternity! Becoming a doula every day to be able to share with other mammas and families a new way of conceiving birth and life as a natural process full of love.
I do CAPOEIRA! which fills me every day!

PHILOSOPHY

We are too small, too ephemeral, too negligible. Therefore I firmly believe that living only for ourselves is completely useless. As Camus said, to face l'absurdité de vivre (the absurdity of living) we have to live for the society, for the big wheel, to change it, improve it.
The only way to make our existence worth is to contribute to human wellbeing. But the first step to do so is working on ourselves :))))

Best way is to be always conscious that the wheel is spinning, that you are on it, but that nothing and nobody can prevent you from changing it.
Spin it your way!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I started a few years ago and now coming back with more energy. Didn't have the chance to host anybody yet but very willing to do so!!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We stayed at Bruno's house in Sao Paulo last year. We had a great experience with them!!! Beautiful people.

Interests

- reading & writing (words are the artistic reflection of my soul and my deliverance)
- mothers, birth and women sexuality
- music (knowing new music, creating music by improvising, singing, dancing and, of course, listening to my personal classics)
- good movies
- traveling
- discovering/studying society its magic and its misery

  • humanities
  • writing
  • literature
  • singing
  • theater
  • dancing
  • capoeira
  • dining
  • vegan
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • magic
  • music
  • sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
- City of God
- Dancer in the dark
- Pulp fiction
- Memorias de un saqueo
- Apocalypse now
- A clockwork orange
- American beauty
- Run lola Run
- l'auberge espagnole
- El hijo de la novia
- Amores Perros

Music:
roots and any music with heart!
- bob marley
- natalia lafourcade
- ástor piazolla
- bajofondo tango club
- orchestra baobab
- fito páez
- charly garcía
- beatles
- radiohead
- gipsy kings

Books / Writers:
- Julio Cortázar
- Ernesto Sábato
- Mario Benedetti
- Eduardo Galeano
- Alfonsina Storni
- Julia P. Farny
- Albert Camus
- Beigbeder
- Réjean Ducharme
- Isabel Allende
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Mario Vargas Llosa

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've already felt peace, love, freedom...

I'm amazed to know that it exists and that I can make it happen.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love teaching...
I helped people with Spanish and French.

I can share my knowledge in maternity, women sexuality, birth.
I can share consciousness of good living!
I can also share my knowledge in music and capoeira!!

anything at all! just ask.

What I Can Share with Hosts

music, delicious vegan food (open to other things), conscient exchanges, happiness, openness :)))

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Canada

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