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Overview

  • 9 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning English
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2016
  • Traveler
  • Industrial Engineer
  • From Seville, Andalusia, Spain
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About Me

I am a chilean traveler with a deep desire to learn and discover. Some months ago I changed some privileges for a simple and moving life. I am grateful for the people who help me extend this trip every day.

There are some questions that I have not been able to ignore. No comfort can against curiosity about other cultures, their history and their way of understanding existence. A nomadic instinct leads me to explore unknown places and I feel pleasure every time my route reveals clues about my own origin.

I think it is still possible to devise a viable way to coexist with dignity, combining the best of each culture. I think that to start creating some model of conscious organization it is necessary to go out and learn. That's why I think my trip is a kind of research, which seeks unity between art, science and philosophy

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

It is a meeting place between friendly nomadic people that I enjoy being a member of. Cultivating initiatives like this one actively displaces the sedentary and impersonal lifestyle that makes people selfish and ignorant

Interests

While traveling I’m working in some projects:
- an independent street theater group
- a multicultural pop-up restaurant where you pay as you feel
- a platform to find who can teach you anything you wish to learn

  • arts
  • culture
  • theater
  • education
  • wine
  • coffee
  • vegetarian
  • running
  • traveling
  • puzzles
  • music
  • astronomy
  • trekking
  • sustainability
  • innovation
  • culinary
  • filosophy
  • digital nomad

Music, Movies, and Books

Music for each emotion: Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Silvio Rodríguez, Víctor Jara, Inti Illimani, Spinetta, Steven Wilson, El Kanka, Bomba Estéreo, Calle 13, Tame Impala, Moderat, Patrick Watson, Ludovico Einaudi

Movies to question certainties: Space Oddysey, Interestellar, Contact, Inception, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, Truman Show, Mr. Nobody, Noviembre

Authors to free ourselves: Cortázar, Nicanor Parra, Galeano, Borges, García Márquez, Pizarnik, Saramago, Gabriela Mistral, Bolaño, Kundera, Orwell, Tolstói, Dostoievski

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Have started up a coffe bar at 25 years old; have made the biggest jigsaw puzzle in the world; have participated in the reconstruction after the earthquake 8.8 richter in the south of Chile 🇨🇱

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach: spanish, mathematics, physics, vegetarian cooking, setting up websites, excel, process modeling, project managing

I wish to learn: yoga, vegan recipes, meditating, singing, salsa dancing, social innovation, gift economy, Phyton coding, quantum mechanics

What I Can Share with Hosts

I offer to you: a vegetarian dinner, ideas to innovate, doing the housework, making a puzzle together

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, England, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Nepal, Northern Ireland, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Spain

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