CURRENT MISSION

vivre ma vie

ABOUT ME

I'm a freckled born in the Brazilian Amazon, state of Rondonia, close to Bolivia. Ariquemes sounds greek but it's the name of the town and the name of a now-vanished indigenous tribe. When I was 8 my family which is actually from the South moved back South (Curitiba-Paraná), where I grew up. Many years later I moved back North where I spent 7 years - from 2004 to 2011 - city of Boa Vista-Roraima, near the Venezuelan and Guyanese boarders. It's a savanna in the huge Amazonian region. Now that I'm back home, I miss many things from that far North. The theatre group, my garden and backyard, the fishes, fruits, rivers and waterfalls, the road to Venezuela.

°°° Love °°°
traveling ° listening to music while cooking or tending the garden ° bycicles ° literature ° theatre ° movies ° dictionaries ° wine ° coffee ° chocolate ° bonfire ° rainy days ° walking around special places with special people ° une sauce pimentée ° four-colour Bic pen ° My favorite things (Coltrane) ° when I'm about to finish a book ° homens na cozinha! ° jugo de lulo ° ajiaco ° caldo de costilla ° tamal ° guacamole ° avena con buñuelo ° mangobeach ° punto rojo ° la langue française ° geleia de fisalis ° chapéus ° vulcões ° cazuela de mariscos ° encocado

°°° Hate °°°
mosquitoes ° laziness ° dried shrimps ° du fois et du fois gras ° dobradinha ° malandragem em tudo ° violence in stadiums ° machismo ° pesticides ° Monsanto ° bandalheira na política ° blatant radios ° to run out of words °

PHILOSOPHY

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Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I hosted many travelers passing through Boa Vista, coming from Manaus, Georgetown or Sta. Elena de Uairén. Currently living in Curitiba-Paraná.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The first time I hosted someone was in 2009, in Boa Vista-RR. Since then, more than 50 travelers from all over the world. That same year, in Iquitos-Peru, was the first time I surfed someone's couch.

Keep on surfin'!!!

Interests

Movies, theatre, languages, museums, politics, geography, geology, documentary films, jokes, games, legends, popular wisdom, chaos theory, plants, music, cooking, bricolage.

• culture
• books
• literature
• performing arts
• documentaries
• cooking
• chocolate
• wine
• coffee
• running
• walking
• gardening
• boating
• politics
• movies
• music
• backpacking
• geography
• geology
• languages
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Gal, Gil, Chico Buarque, Caetano, Elis, Ney, Cartola, Noel, Pixinguinha, Gonzagão, Gonzaguinha, Renato Teixeira, Banda de Pau e Corda, Villa Lobos, Marisa Monte, Mariana Aydar, Ceumar, Ná Ozetti, Bixiga 70, Criolo, Marcelo D2, BNegão e os Seletores de Frequência, Terra Sonora, Mawaca, Madredeus, Dulce Pontes, Mariza, Carlos Paredes, fados, fandangos, milongas, Cerati, Piazzola, Simón Díaz, Dudamel, llaneras, salsa, cumbia, Systema Solar, Bomba Estereo, Monsier Periné, Natalia Lafourcade, Nicola Cruz, Tryo, Serge Gainsbourg, Brassens, Habib Koite, Salif Keita, Mamadi Keita, Cesaria Evora, Amadou et Mariam, Fela Kuti, Mulatu Astatke, Angélique Kidjo, rock, jazz, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan...

The last memorable book I read was El Hurakán, by German Castro Caycedo (Colombian author). Currently (finally!) reading the most must-read book of all about Latin America: Las venas abiertas de América Latina, by Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan author.
The Brazilian authors I love most are Machado de Assis, Nelson Rodrigues (playwright), Rubem Braga, Adélia Prado, Hilda Hilst...

I'm a bit out-of-date about movies. Balzac et La Petite Tailleuse Chinoise, La Haine, Estômago, O Bicho de 7 Cabeças, Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus, Blindness, La Teta Asustada, Los Viajes del Viento, Le condamné à mort s'est échappé, O Quarto de Vanda, En el Nombre de la Hija, La Tigra, are some good ones I remember now.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

ONLY ONE? PAS POSSIBLE!
To backpack in Venezuela during the Chavez times, Colca Canyon, to sleep in the rain on the back of a potato truck (from Ica to Arequipa), 5 days on a boat trip up the Solimões river, a night inside a tent in the forest after meeting savage pigs (Serra do Tepequém), Monte Roraima, Pedra Pintada, to play Joana - my favourite character (originally Lysistrata), el cielo del Paují­, los morichales en la Gran Sabana, Salto Ángel, Trinxat de la Cerdanya prepared by that guy Jordi, Rio Amazonas, dawn at Corredeiras do Bem-querer, to perform on Teatro Amazonas' stage, Pico do Marumbi, Cataratas do Iguaçú, Costa Esmeralda de Santa Catarina, Rio de Janeiro, comida de Minas Gerais, Araucária pine, Serra do Rio do Rastro, escalar uma via no Anhangava, Cerro Avila, Nabusimake, Chicamocha, Locombia, Ecuadorzinho, terremoto del 16/04/2016, Galápagos.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach how to prepare caipirinha, tapioca, tortillas españolas, guacamole, caldo de costilla; some good voice and stretching exercises; Brazilian Portuguese phonetics, some Spanish.
I'd like to learn something about your country, your language, your culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador

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