CURRENT MISSION

Live the most significant number of meaningful experiences during my lifetime in order to feel no regrets along the way and inspire the ones around me.

ABOUT ME

That’s the hardest one. Just trying to live a life that I’m proud of…

PHILOSOPHY

By Tolstoy (but, in my case, the present time):
‘I want movement and not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.’

By Huxley:
(...)
“But I like the inconveniences.”
“We don’t,” said the Controller. “We prefer to do things comfortably.”
“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want
freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
“In fact,” said Mustapha Mond, “you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.”
“All right then,” said the Savage defiantly, “I’m claiming the right to be
unhappy.”
“Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have
syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the
right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the
right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every
kind.” There was a long silence.
“I claim them all,” said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. “You’re welcome,” he said.
(...)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Searching for this kind of experience while traveling, with some people I’ve met.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have surfed some great couches so far, and hope to continue doing it.

Interests

Traveling, and by that I mean experience every possible human feeling during my existence; satisfy my mind by studying, reading and learning new stuff constantly; exercise my body with sports of all kind.

• dancing
• dining
• exercise
• walking
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• opera
• sports
• rock climbing
• soccer
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Orwell, London, Hemingway, Sartre, Huxley, von Mises…

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

La Mano in Uruguay; Boca Jrs./River Plate derby in Buenos Aires, Argentina (most incredible atmosphere on Earth); buying stuff at a border town in Paraguay; risking my life at Atacama Desert, Chile; photos at Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia; climbing Wayna Picchu, Peru; learning about Jivaroan shrunken heads in the Intiñan Solar Museum, Ecuador; walking through Candelaria, Colombia; dealing Bolívares at the arrival gate of the International Airport, Venezuela; getting off a dangerous cab in the streets of Georgetown, Guyana; live in a native house in Paramaribo, Suriname; three days in a Caribbean island on the coast of Panama; Poás and Arenal volcanos, Costa Rica; visiting a colonial city in Nicaragua; getting used by the power of ‘Las Maras’ in El Salvador; traveling around San Pedro Sula, the most violent city in the world, Honduras; teaching kids how to play soccer in Caye Cauker, Belize; Tikal in a rainy day, Guatemala; drinking and dancing at Coco Bongo, Mexico; opera, history and food all over Italy; riding the fastest roller coaster in the world in Abu Dhabi, UAE; having real claustrophobic feelings inside a pyramid, in Ghiza, Egypt…

Teach, Learn, Share

Soccer, folks (I’m a genuine brazilian!)…

What I Can Share with Hosts

All the knowledge I´ve got on my country!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Ireland