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Overview

  • 27 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified)
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Orchestra Conductor,Historian, Writer, Translator
  • Masters Degree
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

U.N.A.M FAcultad de Ciencias Políticas.

Escuela Superior de Música , Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes.

To learn. To know. To love. To be!

Orchestra conductor, turned into a Political science student.
I run a Charity Foundation dedicated to bring education to kids and elderly adults in disadvantage.
Used to work as a history researcher and educator .
In love with his city.
I love to show this city to my foreign friends and colleagues.
Absolutely fascinated about human kind. Love quiet moments but I love to get fun with friends and close people. Not a party animal, not a boring lazy man either.
Honest and open minded guy, passionate about life,knowledge, human connections.
Descendant of immigrants from Spain but a fully and proud mexicano, myex- wife is from Russia , So i know deeply about the social and historical background of both Latin american and Russian culture.

PHILOSOPHY

Learn,love, eat and live all you can!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love to help people . Get to know a new mind, make some new friends. I started sharing my city and my country 14 years ago, I started using CS to try a new path.

I can show the city and its interesting places, help with information about the country, its roads and its best places to visit. We offer a warm welcome and a sincere fellowship.
I love to meet new people, always.
I cook many times, traditional/national and alternative food as well,(Or we can show the city's best places to find great food, if that is what you need) we welcome new recipes always.
Some free days a week.

"Visitar una ciudad en México es como seducir.. tienes que tomar tu tiempo, abrirte a las posibilidades, entregar tu fuerza y amar cada momento...Para que después, sola, se abra hacia ti con amor y te ofrezca sus secretos.."

Interests

I can keep talking for hours about this country, its history and its past ,present and future.
I rather a coffee out with the friends over an antro. Used to dance tango and danzon a lot. Now more inclined to have conversations, learn about people.

  • animals
  • arts
  • dining
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • partying
  • traveling
  • music
  • history
  • languages
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

Виктор Цой, Wir sind helden, Кино , The swell season, Glen Hansard, Земфира , MF Doom, Arctic Monkeys, Portugal The Man, Metallica, Kimya Dawson, Shostakovich, Wagner, Schnittke

T.S. Eliot, Christopher Hitchens, Salman Rushdie,, Julio Cortazar, Socrates, Hannah Arendt, , Geroge RR Martin
Niccolò Machiavell., Guy de Maupassant. Kafka, Walter Piston, A. Schönberg.

In weiter Ferne, so nah!. La Môme. Cinema Paradiso. Arráncame la vida. The Pianist. La vita e bella. Prova d'orchestra.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Conduct a National Orchestra

Start my own Charity Foundation to get education to children in disadvantage,

Teach arts and culture to kids from my native city

Climbed a volcano (extinct) but still.

Composed an opera

Visited a country barely speaking the language

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a direct and sincere person. You can always hit me up to talk about nerdy stuff and alternate between the meaning of life and Game of Thrones.

Be so kind that people think you are weird
Be so honest that people know you are an idiot.
Be so direct that people understand your intentions

Countries I’ve Visited

China, Colombia, Russian Federation, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States

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