CURRENT MISSION

Quae potest esse vitae iucunditas sublatis amicitiis?

ABOUT ME

It's hard to sqeeze a description of me and my interests in a few lines (so that people don't get asleep while reading) but I'll try. After a very happy childood and adolescence in Foligno, a town in Central Italy (yes, you got the idea: sun, olive groves, and cypress trees) I started to be a sort of nomad.
First I moved to foggy Northern italy (Cremona) for a Master in Agricultural Economics (I know it sounds boring), then I moved to Holland where I stayed for a couple of years. Despite all the parties I managed to graduate (with good marks) in Development Economics.
Then, after some months of meditation (in reality I didn't have the smallest clue on what to do with my life) I worked for almost a year for the Ministry of Agriculture (it sounds and it was boring). Since Fall 2009 I've been in Mantova, a beautiful (but quite boring) medieval town in Northern Italy, where I'm studying for my PhD and where I'm working as researcher for the Catholic Uni of Milan.
I like traveling, learning new things (music, culture, languages... I don't have any prejudice...), meeting people, and exchange knowledge with the others.
I like sports: swimming, running, hiking, biking, and sometimes playing football, music, and cooking (you need to recover somehow after all the sport...).
Of course there's much more but I don't want to write too much, in fact writing (no I'm not a writer, just to friends) is one of the things I enjoy the most...

PHILOSOPHY

"I will find a way, or make one."

It's not my stuff (Hannibal's) but it gives the idea...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

It's been a while since I started thinking about joining couchsurfing but I've always postponed (also because until a few months ago I didn't have a decent place where to host people). SInce I like to travel (and I do since my friends are scattered all around the world) and host people (friends from all around the world come to visit me) I thought that joining the community would be a good idea. Many friends of mine, who have been couchsurfing for a while now have been spurring me to build a profile. They say that it's really something for me...
Let's wait and see then!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been couchsurfing a lot in my life, but only at friends' places. I mean actual friends, people I met in person before.
I joined CS quite recently (January 2011) but I've laready hosted many people in my house in Mantova. Every experience was just perfect and memorable. So far I've met only great and funny people. Either I'm lucky or all CS' people are great!

Interests

Reading, meeting new people, cooking, swimming, running (when my knee allowes me to), dancing (only if nobody watches me... :-D), music (rock, reggae, blues, latin jazz, afrobeat and some selected Italian), languages.
Almost forgot: almost everyhitng related to agriculture and international issues!!!

• culture
• writing
• dancing
• dining
• italian food
• cooking
• running
• meditation
• partying
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• jazz
• blues
• cycling
• hiking
• sports
• soccer
• swimming
• agriculture
• economics
• languages
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: all except horror, science fiction, fantasy, and stupid ones.
Books: the list would be too long. Anyway recently I've been reading a lot of travel literature.
Music: everything except hard rock, metal, and similar noise.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spend New Year's eve on a top of a Mountain with some selected friends and a bottle of Spumante (Italian for Champagne, it's almost like Champagne but better...) watching, in silence, the valley below us exploding with celebrations and fireworks.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: cooking rigatoni alla amatriciana and other Italian food, the basics of Italian language, Italian culture, agriculture-related stuff, guide across (almost) all Italy.
I want to learn: Latin languages, to dance properly (that is without mangling my partner's feet) and everyhitng people are willing to teach me: I'm curious about everything!

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