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Overview

  • 6 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Spanish; learning French, Portuguese
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • No occupation listed
  • Journalism
  • From El Ejido, Almería, Spain
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About Me

- / August 2019 - Present/ I'm currently living in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, with my girlfriend, working as a part time waiter and studying computer science.

That is a part of the actual me, at least, the geographic and living circumstances, but that is not everything. A person is made by countless experiences that work as a whole. For this reason, I will describe my past by facts, my future by wills and my present by a mix of both.

- / 1993 - June 2011 / I grew up in Santa María del Águila (Almería) until High School. Son of a farmer and a florist, I was raised around plants between greenhouses, in the middle of the countryside.

- / Sep. 2011 - Sep. 2015 / I went to Málaga (Spain) in order to finish my degree/bachelor in Journalism. It was my first experience living alone. Learning from others, trying to be a better person and discovering how to change the world by my journalistic skills.

- / Sep. 2015 - June 2016 / I moved to Volda (Norway) for almost a year as an Erasmus student. As a Spaniard, I couldn't speak English before this experience. After I moved to Norway, my whole life changed. How I saw life, the world and myself. My outlook was broadened.

- / July 2016 - Dec. 2017 / I went back to Málaga in order to earn some money by myself, without being helped by my parents. While I was working as a waiter, I met up people from other countries, other cultures. Experiences which made me improve as a human being.

- / March 2017 - November 2018 / I lived in Hamburg for twenty months. I worked as an Aupair, taking care of three wonderful children and as a barista in Balzac Coffee. Even though I couldn't speak a word in German before moving to the country, after twenty months, somehow I got to speak fluently about a lot of topics.

- / December 2018 - August 2019/ I moved back to Spain, to my parents home, trying to find my new path.

THREE SENTENCES WHICH DESCRIBE ME

- El saber no ocupa lugar. That is what my father always told me. The translation would be 'knowledge doesn't take up space'. And it means, that a person can always learn and learn, our brain is an immeasurable room where there is endless place!

- Every human being's aim should be 'try to be a better person'. What kind of things could you change about yourself? How to give others without asking for anything in return? Self-criticism as a way of improving your environment and, especially, yourself!

- There is always a balance in everything. Come on, everyone heard about the grayscale and its multiple forms. I'm just trying to not being defined as a extremist, even if sometimes we, people, tend to be. You definitely can always do better!

Interests

Puzzles, plants, computer science, freestyle, food, anything you can teach me.

  • poetry
  • journalism
  • languages
  • zerowaste
  • listening to stories
  • ocean conservation
  • sdgs

Music, Movies, and Books

Over the garden wall.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once, my girlfriend and I bought a 3000-pieces jigsaw. We're still working on it.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Tunisia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Norway, Spain

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