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Overview

  • 15 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • archaeologist
  • Phd student
  • From Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

The current mission is to see as much as possible, to share, to learn and to change continously

ABOUT ME

I'm a social scientist, the typical idealist, politically and socially committed and totally convinced that things can change if all of us believe is possible.

I'm also a happy person with no permanent residence but with strong bonds towards the people I've met along the road and the places I've called home.

I hate borders, I dont like the people who create them neither the ones who defend them (specially by choice). I believe in the non violent actions and in the pacific civil resistance as a way of promoting changes. I believe in argumentation, I want to believe that "the pen is mightier than the sword".

PHILOSOPHY

is briefly summarize in a quote from el quixote:
"el que lee mucho y anda mucho, ve mucho y sabe mucho"

and another one from Kundera
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

short but substantial, I've met incredible people,

Interests

travelling, reading, hiking, diving, dancing, learning and of course as said in italian "il dolce fare niente"

  • dancing
  • reading
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • scuba diving
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

Pelis: the science of sleep, i ladri di biciclette, los viajes del viento, el vuelco del cangrejo, martin "h", hombre mirando al sudeste, delicatessen y un largo etc de estos géneros.
Libros: todo lo que sea de Cortázar, Borges, Pessoa, Paz, Eco, Sartre, Márquez, Dante, Sabines, Neruda, Kundera, Hess, Benedetti, Girondo, Pratchett, Bukowski, Murakami, Bryce Echenique, Cesar Vallejo (I completely dislike Vargas Llosa!) etc....
Música: lo que sea desde kisomba hasta ópera... depende el momento, pero digamos que un buen rock, una buena salsa vieja, o algo de jazz y blues están siempre presentes....sin olvidar a Sabina, Silvio o Mercedes; a Serrat, o los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, a los Cadillacs y a Soda, Café Tacuba y la Botellita de Jerez, en fin... variadito pero selecto.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

diving with whale sharks in honduras
watching the swallows going out from the sótano de las golondrinas in méxico
being in plaza cataluña supporting and learning from the 15M movement

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach the only thing I know something about: archaeology...
Learn as much as possible and share is a must!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palestine, Panama, Peru, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, France, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

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