It's such an honour having the privilege and opportunity to write a little bit about myself. I'm enormously grateful for it. Let me introduce myself, I'm Ivison, I'm fifty-eight years old, I like communicating, talking, but I also love to hear, to sit and observe. Sometimes I might get a little quiet, but it's just the way I find to assimilate everything that's going on around me, I’m a very open-minded person.
I'm divorced, I live with my mother, I live in the city São Paulo, It's by far the largest city in the Americas. It’s the largest in both the Southern and Western Hemispheres. I love São Paulo, I like the atmosphere, the great mixture of nationalities and cultures. The speed of everything it's exciting, I love the architecture, walking the streets and looking up at all those skyscrapers. Differentiated people like you deserve surprising places, and São Paulo has got plenty of them. It offers some of Latin America's foremost museums, cultural centres featuring magnificent architecture, plus lovely galleries and theatres, a venue that echoes art and culture.

Well currently, I'm working as an assistant of events in a hotel, and I'm studying languages too. I am learning English and Mandarin. I try to have fun and spend my free time in the way I want to, I like relaxing, that would be just going out to somewhere quiet, I enjoy reading, walking on the beach, poetry or going to eat something nice, to cook something nice or just to stay home watching movies. I like to go out for long walks or just spend time with family and friends during weekends.

I like listening to every kind of music, mainly classical music, I adore to listen or play an instrument, the violin.
I love outdoor activities. I like watching the sun rising or sunset, and the delight of being surrounded by nature, I love camping, mountains, waterfalls, the sea and its waves, lonely beaches, listening to the wind and smelling the salty air, sand dunes, the heat of the sun on my skin, being barefoot on fresh green grass.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to meet new people, have new experiences listening to them, to learn and share ideas.

Interests

For me, to travel means to really experience a place: immersing myself in a new culture, expanding my knowledge, and opening myself to the lessons that interacting with local people and nature.
I love to travel! It's a great opportunity to see new things, experience different cultures, to find yourself, to relax, recharge, renew, to meet other people and different lifestyles, try new foods and generally learn about the world we live in. To travel is a passion, one of the most important and wise activities of the human beings is travelling. I love learning new things, by encouraging the sharing of knowledge between people and its experiences of life, bringing different ideas together, and challenging people with a unique combination of talents and characteristics to learn together.

• arts
• theater
• cooking
• wine
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• tourism
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Black Swan, Always, The Blind Side, Sense, and Sensibility, Million Dollar Baby, Amadeus, Mona Lisa Smile, Into The Wild, Pride & Prejudice,...Friends,

Books: Where shall wisdom be found? by Harold Bloom, One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, Jude the Obscure by Thomas, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint- Exopéry, Ulysses - James Joyce, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway, Macbeth by Williams Shakespeare, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett,...

Music: Someone Like You, Don't You Remember Adele, U2 - One, Don't Know Why Norah Jones, Faye Wong Sky, Stacey Kent so nice,...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have done it...

I realised that when we face a difficult situation, generally we only are hypnotised by the limits of the resources we know. We act because of who we are, and who we are is shaped by our actions. We are bearers of a treasure in vessels of clay, and we are fortunate in this: from the value of the contents, but also from the fragility of the vessel.

And the biggest challenge in my life thus far has been trying to see the difference between who I am, and how I perceive myself and trying to change both into who I want to be.
A universal need for a change of attitude and the creative fulfilment has been the single greatest influence on my sense of purpose. My purpose is to fulfil myself and help others to do the same. For me, fulfilment comes from creative problem solving and amplifying positivity. I am still learning about this.

I've noticed a lot of meaningful changes in my life taking place together with a huge transformation of my priorities.
That has had great positive impact on many of the important parts of my life.

Teach, Learn, Share

Nowadays I'm more persistent in my goals, despite my difficulties, I seek to reach them with a lot of discipline and will. Looking at my past I make a self-criticism for not having done this before. But I am happy that I realised, and I resumed the right path.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I like serving, and interacting with people around me. And always guide me by these principles, which express my posture as a person. We know that in order to serve people we must serve them, meeting their legitimate needs.
The important distinction is the core of why we serve should be to show love to others for their unconditional support and the affection, with which we valued and promoted and the well-being of persons.