CURRENT MISSION

This may be a cliche, but... Make the most of my semester at Københavns Universitet, improve my english, travel and meet as many people as I can!

ABOUT ME

Paraphrasing Belchior, a brazilian musician, "I'm just a Latin-American girl, without money in my wallet..."

As a job, I travel and meet person. I'm working hard to compose a report, which should be delivered to my boss in the next 70 years, more or less (I like to give my best...). My objective is fill it with a lot of funny and interesting things, and I'm just writing the first lines.

As a hobby, I'm a brazilian Food Engineering student at Københavns Universitet, where I'll spend the next semester studying Food Science and trying to improve my english (quite bad, as you may have noticed).

So, if you want to join me at my work, just come to my office. It's under a enormous and blue roof and above a strange spherical floor. Please knock on the first door, I'll probably be there.

PHILOSOPHY

May be corny to add famous citations in this description, but Amyr Klink, a great brazilian sailor and traveler - at the deepest meaning of the word - put on words exactly the view I have of traveling around... =)

Here is the original citation and a free translation...

“A man needs to travel. On by his own, not by stories, images, books or TV. He needs to travel by himself with his eyes and feet, to understand what belongs to him. Plant his own trees and give it the due value. Feel the cold to appreciate the heat. And the opposite. Feel the distance and the exposure to feel good under his own roof. A man need to travel to places that he doesn’t know and break thar arrogance that make us see the world as we imagine, and not how it should be or could be; making us teachers and doctors about things that we haven’t seen when, in fact, we should be students, just go out there and see the world.”
(Adapted "Mar sem Fim"- Amyr Klink)

"Um homem precisa viajar. Por sua conta, não por meio de histórias, imagens, livros ou tv. Precisa viajar por si, com seus olhos e pés, para entender o que é seu. Para um dia plantar as suas próprias árvores e dar-lhes valor. Conhecer o frio para desfrutar do calor. E o oposto. Sentir a distância e o desabrigo para estar bem sob o próprio teto. Um homem precisa viajar para lugares que não conhece para quebrar essa arrogância que nos faz ver o mundo como o imaginamos, e não simplesmente como é ou pode ser; que nos faz professores e doutores do que não vimos, quando deveríamos ser alunos, e simplesmente ir ver."
("Mar sem Fim" - Amyr Klink)

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I moved to København a few weeks ago, so I'm just beginning here in the community!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Despite my short time here, as a first experience as a couch surfer, I hosted a friend of mine for a week and had seven wonderful days!

So, I want to host as many guests as possible looking for another great days!

Centres d'intérêt

Obvious ones: met person, eat strange (and good, eventually) things... And, of course, write a lot of pages of my report.

• writing
• books
• dining
• bbq
• tv
• traveling
• music
• backpacking
• engineering
• science

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Books: almost everything that starts with a capital letter and finishes with a dot. But I have special interests by science and fantastic fiction, action and travelogs. Of course, it's includes masters as J. R. R. Tolkien, Isaac Asimov, Terry Pratchett, Michael Crichton, Bernard Cornwell, Neil Gaiman, C. S. Lewis, Douglas Adams, Gabriel García Marques, Amyr Klink... (click here to see the next thousands authors).

Music: brazilian popular and traditional music. But you can find classical songs to heavy metal on my library...

Movies: put together a history and a soundtrack as the ones cited above. I probably will love! Just to keep enumerating the top ones: Steven Spielberg, Gore Verbinski, Cao Hamburger, Guel Arraes, Fernando Meirelles, Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino, Harrison Ford, Pedro Almodóvar, Jorge Furtado...

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Maybe I have only few remarkable things to put here (although I had a lot of them remarkable enough to don't forget never more), so I'll quote only the first ones:

I did a backpack trip to Bolívia-Peru with my dad, including five days on Salcantay trail to Machu Picchu, 9 hours in a bus driven by a drunk guy, a llama barbecue, a night slept in a island of Titiqaqa lake and another one - officially registered in our passport - slept in "nowhere" after being barred at the border.

And... It may be not so incredible, but to me it's being awesome leaving Brasil and spend a whole semester in another continent... =)

Pays que j'ai visités

Bolivia, Peru, Sweden

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Brazil, Denmark

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