CURRENT MISSION

"I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life"

ABOUT ME

I'm a sunny and friendly girl who loves to meet new people, deep conversations and laugh to death! Each person is better than us in something and we can always learn from them and pass on what we know. I'm fond of art in all its different forms, I enjoy travelling, couchsurfing and meeting new friends at hostels. I am a music fanatic and I love to attend gigs and to dance.
I am SUPER interested in getting to know different cultures and meeting people from around the world. There is nothing more fascinating than meeting folks with other background, history, language, traditions!

So, apart from music and travel, I enjoy small things in life, such as going to some cosy café to grab a hot chocolate and read a book, walking with my ipod watching the world passing by, chilling in the park on sunny days, cycling and get lost. I won't never stops saying it: beauty is in the details!

PHILOSOPHY

Be nice and people will be nice to you!:)

Buddhism is my philosophy (not my religion). I believe in Causality, the relationship between cause and effect. To have a mental right attitude helps to be in peace with your mind. Happiness is a pure state of mind, it's not determined by external events!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Travelling doesn't consist only in visiting a new place, there is lot more than that. Travelling is about people, meeting new friends, sharing thoughts, ideas, stories. It's about the local, the hidden side, something that 'normal tourists' miss out.

At the moment I unfortunately can't host people myself, but I did it in the past and it was like having a new family for a couple of days.

Interests

World, words.

• arts
• culture
• cooking
• walking
• traveling
• music
• live music
• cycling
• backpacking
• buddhist
• history
• languages
• religion
• volunteering
• beaches
• sea

Music, Movies, and Books

Sorry for the following papyrus (and the list is not even complete!)

MOVIES.
David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Fire Walk with me, Wild at heart). Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds). British New Wave. Nouvelle Vague: Truffaut (L'Amour en fuite, La Femme d'à côté, La Nuit américaine, Les Quatre Cents Coups). Godard (Vivre sa vie, Una femme esta una femme, A bout de souffle). Woody Allen (Annie Hall, Manatthan, Match Point, Vicky Cristina Barcelona). Lolita. Leon the professional. Last night. The Big Lebowski. Harry met Sally. The Royal Tenenbaums. Taxi driver. Lost in Translation. A love song for bobby long. The Graduated. Some like it hot. Spielberg (ET., The terminal). Al Pacino addicted (Serpico, Panic in Needle Park, The Godfather, Scent of a woman, Carlito's way, Donnie Brasco). Cemento armato. Jack Nicholson (Bucket list, Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Departed, As good as he gets). Casablanca. Have and Have not. American History. Nine weeks and a half. Notebook. Nuovo cinema Paradiso. Peggy Sue got married. High Fidelity.

Italian old movie (Il postino, Ricomincio da 3, Mamma roma, Sciuscià).

MUSIC is the love of my life, my ipod contains my life. I was a true rock lover, now I am more into electronic.
http://www.lastfm.it/user/learningtofly90

There are lots of Books that marked me as well.
Dalai Lama - The Art of Happiness
George Orwell - 1984
Nick Hornby - High Fidelity
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Enrico Brizzi - Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo
Pirandello - Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio
Moravia - Gli Indifferenti

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

To look at a starry sky, in the middle of the night, walking in a sleeping city.
To wait for the dawn.
To lay down on a desolated beach, staring at the sea.
To work as a volunteer: I feel good helping people, especially when they smile back at me after being helped.

Amizingness is in little and daily things, but too often we are blind

Ps.I got lots of stories from my travelling, but you will get to know them just meeting me! =)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some Italian language, custom and gesture, and how to cook an amazing pasta (my friends call me "the queen of pasta"!). Also, I'm pretty good with facial expressions.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Scotland, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Scotland, Wales