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Overview

  • 4 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian, Spanish; learning French, German, Latin, Romanian, Swedish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Translator, Linguist and Language Teacher
  • Degree in languages
  • From Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Education.I wouldn't be so protentious as to say that I want to change the world, because I don't think I'm that smart. I do believe that Education makes people better, and better people means a better world.

ABOUT ME

Well, I love reading. Julio Cortazar is not my favorite writer, he is my "compadre", my best buddy, the only one I can have a conversation with even though he died 30 years ago. And he once said that when he was a kid he was never content with simple definitions or concepts for things. If he was told that a "table" was just this thing or that, he'd not be satisfied and he would start imagining different explanations and universes where a table was more than just a simple table. I guess I am a little bit like that, I like to be different. I like to be different at being different. So if you are an unorthodox and free spirit, then you'd understand how I am.

PHILOSOPHY

Education is what saves us from ourselves.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

surfing, hosting, teaching, showing people around. Unfortunatley the city where i live is not what you'd call turistic, so there's not a lot of CS activity around here :(

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I haven't participated in CS as much as I would have liked or wanted. I was travelling a lot around Europe and the States about 4 years ago, and that's when I participated in CS and got to meet really wonderful people. I'd say that the best travel experiences I had were with CS.
I have been working as a language teacher for some time now, and I haven't had the chance to travel as much as I'd like, but hopefully that will change.

Interests

literature, music, culture in general and LIFE!!!

  • culture
  • writing
  • books
  • literature
  • poetry
  • concerts
  • education
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • surfing
  • boxing
  • teaching
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

jajja not enough space in here. I like pretty much anything, but I keep the good things for me.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Impossible to describe in this little box. Let's meet over a bottle of Cavernet and I'll tell you in detail.
I'm sure people would write amazing things here in their descriptions: mountains climbed, jungles crossed, concerts danced; me, I like simpler things. Debussy's Claire de Lune at 2 am, a cigarette at night with air from the Mexican Sierra in an indigenous village, a poetry book with pages torn appart. That kind of thing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Those who can, do. Those who can do really well, teach.

Countries I’ve Visited

Romania

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico

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