We are Hannah and Gustavo. We are a vegan couple living in Mexico City. Hannah studied abroad last spring for 5 months in Florence, Italy. Artist & writer. Hannah has her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Painting from the State University of New York at Purchase College. She is passionate about language, culture, drawing and painting. Gustavo is Hannah's boyfriend from Mexico. Gustavo is a biologist and has his Masters in Science, specialized in ecophysiology and mammalogy for the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Advisor for rural development, and 15 years experience as teacher in high school and university in Mexico. He has taught Ecology, Biology, Human Anatomy, Human Physiology and Research Methodology. He is also an entrepreneur with his vegan shop Vecoming, offering vegan foods to transitioning vegans in Mexico and worldwide.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

He speaks Spanish and English. She speaks English, some French and some Italian and is learning Spanish. oking to meet as many like minded locals within Mexico City, Mexico.

Interests

Our interests are meeting new people, having local experiences, exchanging ideas, meeting locals.

• arts
• humanities
• writing
• poetry
• vegan
• shopping
• traveling
• painting
• music
• world music
• anatomy
• biology
• chemistry
• ecology
• teaching
• entrepreneurship
• geology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

~GUSTAVO~
music:
1. the smiths, 2. morrissey, 3. bjork, 4. nick cave, 5. sex pistols, 6. depeche mode, 7.arcade fire, 8. bauhaus, 9. joy division, 10. U2.

movies:
1. blade runner, 2. dancer in the dark, 3. kahemusha, 4. faraway so close, 5. wings of desire, 6. until the end of the world, 7. metropolis, 8. nosferatu, 9. the empire strikes back, 10. citizen cane

books:
Books: 1. Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo), 2. El Laberinto de la Soledad (Octavio Paz), 3.The flowers of evil (Charles Baudelaire), 4. A Season in Hell (Artur Rimbaud), 5.The Call of Kthulu (H.P. Lovecraft), 6. Dracula, 7. 100 years of solitude (Gabriel García Marquez), 8.The Castle of Otranto (Horace Walpole ), 9. The Origin of the Species (Darwin), 10.The Divine Comedy

~HANNAH~
music:
1. aha, 2. morten harket, 3. mylene farmer, 4. queen latifah, 5. petra marklund, 6. uh huh her, 7. stravinsky, 8. les nubians/ zap mama, 9. krs one, 10. natalia lafourcade.

movies:
1. frances ha, 2. the science of sleep, 3. angela, 4. the sea inside, 5. swing time, 6. bad education, 7. interstellar, 8. hanna, 9. the trip, 10. force majeure

books:
1. Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami), 2. The Garden of Eden (Ernest Hemingway), 3. After Dark (Haruki Murakami), 4. A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway), 5. The Hobbit, 6. The Nag Hammadi, 7. 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez), 8. What I Talk when I Talk about Running (Haruki Murakami), 9. The Odyssey, 10. Egyptian Myths and Mysteries (Rudolf Steiner).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Gustavo: The time he lived in the desert in Mexico working with bats and indigenous people. He learned many things and developed his skills as scientist and field biologist.

Hannah: Hiked up a hill in a rural town in Switzerland on my own last April (2015) at 7pm when it was all dark ( I went to see the Goetheanum architectural masterpiece building in Dornach, Switzerland).

Teach, Learn, Share

Gustavo: Can help with Spanish, can share knowledge of geology or chemistry if needed or interested, more if asked!

Hannah: I can help teach english to anyone. I know many cultural references and music from all over the world~ anything you are interested in music, film or other wise I can show you more.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Practice with English and Spanish, I'm an artist (painter), future teacher and love world music; he's a professor of geology and chemistry and into poetry and Morrissey.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belize, Canada, France, Germany, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Italy, Mexico, United States