CURRENT MISSION

Researcher and educator, helping people to have better and healthier lives

ABOUT ME

Good humor, down to earth and tender when there is empathy.

PHILOSOPHY

The essential is invisible. Beauty is an accessory. Intelligence, education and good humor matter.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

New in this website. I haven't received many people because I didn't own the places I lived before.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am new here but already like the experience. Had great experiences with friends in other sites, from Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Mexico, USA and Brazil.

Interests

Music, Carnival, Health, Company, Beach, Sun, Food, Culture, Books and Travel, Travel, Travel. & more music. I don't play anything but I'd love to learn to play piano or keybords. I used to sing in the university's choir. I used to sing in my classes to call the students attention to the subject, when they are disperse.

• culture
• books
• beauty
• dining
• traveling
• music
• biology
• volunteering
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie: The Silence of The Lambs, The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco), Central do Brasil (Walter Salles), Ensaio sobre a cegueira/Blindness (José Saramago), Les Invasions Barbares, El Labirinto del Fauno. MIllenium trilogy: the girl with the dragon tatoo. Black Swan.
Series: Sense8. Glee. Touch. Netflix.
Music: Beautiful (Marillion), Mas Alla (Gloria Stefan), Because You loved me (Celine Dion), No One (Alicia Keys), Ne me quitte pas (Maysa), Mas que nada (Sérgio Mendes/ Black Eyed Peas), Ave Maria do Morro (Scorpions/Ary Barroso/Angela Maria), Boa sorte/Good Luck (Vanessa da Mata/Ben Harper), Fera Ferida, (Maria Bethania/Roberto Carlos), Clube da Esquina II (Flávio Venturini), Caçador de Mim (Milton Nascimento). Love Pet Shop Boys, Kid Abelha, 14 Bis, Milton Nascimento, Marisa Monte, Caetano Veloso, Adriana Calcanhoto, Ana Carolina, New Order, Erasure, Cyndi Lauper, Eurythmics, Keane, Culture Club, Tina Turner, Mariah Carey, Shakira, Gilberto & Gilmar, Jorge & Matheus, Human League, Michael Jackson, Bread, Carpenters, RPM, Legião Urbana, Capital Inicial, Zero, Metrô, Ney Matogrosso etc.
Book: Brave New World (Aldous Huxley), O Alienista/The Alienist e Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas/Memoirs of a Dead Brás Cubas (Machado de Assis), Le Petit Prince (Antoine de Saint-Éxupery), Maria Moura's Memorial (Rachel de Queiroz).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Worked in a non-governmental organization Botucatu Cancer League (1999-2002) helping people to inform themselves how to prevent against cancer (mainly breast, skin and lung) in schools, hospitals and approaching people at the streets. Also as a Catholic Group member I teached and lectured Biology and Sciences for people in "favelas" as a volunteer (2007-2008). They were approved in better jobs after the 'scholarization".

Teach, Learn, Share

I was part of a Catholic Group of Sharing where we used to meet periodically to share our doubts and experiences, to pray and to thank God. We also planned what to do in our neighbourhood to help diminish the suffering for people who has little while we have much to offer as volunteers or as professionals. We also learn a lot with the others'point of view. Maybe the biggest projects were: Amazônia and MIR (International Movement "Restore me"). I was also a student at the National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, from February 2009 to 2012.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share the kitchen, living room and bathroom.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Brazil, Germany, United States