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Overview

  • 10 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Italian, Spanish, Swiss German; learning French, Portuguese
  • 49, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Academic Researcher and Assistant Teacher for Latin Ameri...
  • PhD in Latin American Cultural Studies, Master of Arts in...
  • From Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION
Giving positive vibes, respect and gratitude to the people and the nature around me. Sharing travel and life experiences that can help people to understand my culture and enjoy more places whilst traveling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can offer the best City-Tour around Zurich :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Only good experiences, really lovely people

Interests

Traveling and travel photography, walking - hiking - trekking, cooking and experimenting healthy food, kickboxing and fitness in general, independent cinema, street art, foreign languages

  • arts
  • street art
  • modern art
  • cooking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • languages
  • cinema

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Losers' Club, La haine, Le scaphandre et le papillon, Bin Jip, The Secret Life of Words, Children of Heaven, Waltz with Bashir, Survival Style 5+, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Metropolis, Memento, Adam's apples, Reconstruction, El secreto de sus ojos, The Fall (Tarsem Singh), Tesis, Das Leben der Anderen, 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile

Music bands: The XX, Sigur Rós, 3 Doors Down, Explosions in the Sky, Coldplay, Jonathan Jeremiah, Sophie Hunger, This Will Destroy You, The Idan Raichel Project, KT Tunstall, Tina Dico, Gossip, Nightwish, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Greenday, Portishead, Evanescence, Gotan Project, Calexico, Lila Downs, Antony and the Jonhsons, Manu Chao, ...

Books: 1984 (Orwell), Der Sandmann (Hoffmann), Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte (Chamisso), and all books by Kafka and all Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

visiting Machu Picchu at sunrise, riding hot-air Balloon over Cappadocia, Skydiving in Lucerne, living with locals in Yangoon, sand boarding on Lençois Maranhenses, crossing the Salar de Uyuni, hunting Northern Lights in Iceland

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Germany, Malta, Mexico, Switzerland, Turkey

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