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Overview

  • 38 references 32 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German, Spanish; learning Italian, Portuguese
  • 42, Female
  • Member since 2011
  • Geoscientist
  • Master of Science
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Knowing people all over and exchanging their life experiences with mine.

ABOUT ME

GOOD heart, Open minded, well traveled, easy going, always searching for new adventures and new experiences. Happy, active and always ready for new things and learning from others. I try to work in what really passionates me and not for money (got tired of that). I am very generous and have a healthy relationship towards material stuff. I also have some deeper beliefs, we humans are spiritual beings ! I am an ALL AROUND (chica todoterreno) girl. I am extrem extrem easy going, so you can find me living with Mongols in their yurts one month and the next one with white collars in Sydney CBD. I adapt and I try to find the best people around the world.
Positive people the ones who enjoy traveling, the ones who love new experiences who are daring to leave their comfort zone.

PHILOSOPHY

Golden biblical rule: "treat others the way you would like to be threaten"

If you are depressed fight to get out of it, your situation is just a short moment compared to the rest of your life!

Si la vida te da la espalda, pateale el culo...

AND

People will be good at doing things they like when they get the chance to practice them.

Dont be afraid to follow your real passion!! IF YOU WORK with YOUR PASSION and your talents YOU WONT FEEL ITS work!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

sharing the love giving and interchanging pure positive energy with my guests and my hosts

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have been now 7 years with CS and its just one of the best experiences ever. I have been able to host many people which have become now friends. I have surfed couches mostly in Brazil and Dubai, Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia. And i have been sharing wonderful activities thanks to the
Couchsurfing meetings.

Interests

LOVE is my biggest interest, finding good people its about quality not quantity!!
Different thinking people, funny people, happy people, humble people, smart people, Positive people, people who like to learn new thinks, kind people, loving people, travelling people, people who work for interesting projects.

Exploring NAture in general, reading, cultures in general, NGO projects, cooking, lenguages, dancing and more dancing GOING Out AND GOINT OUT and again GOINT Out. Meeting new people and learning from them. Doing new things breaking the routine.

  • dogs
  • arts
  • books
  • beauty
  • festivals
  • dancing
  • dining
  • seafood
  • cooking
  • meditation
  • walking
  • partying
  • flying
  • reading
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • camping
  • cave diving
  • scuba diving
  • swimming
  • beaches
  • bicycling
  • beautiful places
  • tropics
  • wine and cheese
  • helping others
  • beeing creative
  • beeing outside
  • helping animals

Music, Movies, and Books

O too many, Me vale madres!! (my current lecture), Simone de Beauvoir, Sicology books, Movies: mostly true life stories or based on historical content. Music: what ever puts me to swing, i really love to dance so pump it up.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

OHH i like this part: from traveling the Amazonas, 5 days inka trail to Machu Pichhu, hiking the Alps, working in the Australian Bush between wild kanguroos, getting to know Aboriginal people and eating crocodile meat and termites with them. Seing the wild norhtern teritorry and being amazed with aboriginal ancient rock art. Also going down a river seeing lots of huge crocodiles in the water. scuba diving in Colombian coast, going to el Nevado del Ruiz volcano, going to el Athna Volcano, living close to the active Galeras volcano, living with the Kuna Ayalas in Panamas Archipel islands. I did the 5 day transiberian route, starting in San Perterburg to Siberia Irkutsk, staying at the biggest lake of the World LAke Baikal. On the way back IN Mosku we could join a private VW party in the presidential suite infront of the KREMLIN. Travelling Europe withouth money, making friends on the trip to find a place were to sleep. Doing wild camping in Malta and wreckship diving. Taking a swim at the dead Sea (amazing floating experience) in Israel and visiting Jerusalem on Sabat. Hiking the great Canyon USA, riding the atractions of the LAs Vegas big Tower. Eating the best seafood on Hong Kongs street markets, dancing in Seoul,experiencing the luxury lifestyle in Dubai, travelling alone around Brasil and getting to know City of God, doing helicopter flying lessons in Australia and flying several times, going out dancing in Malta with a 2.31m tall basketbal friend, doing my dive master and diving around the most amazing but also dangerous (currents) spots in Indonesian vulcanic Islands, Driving for 2 months from San Diego to MExico baja California across to mainland Mexico down to Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. From there flying to Cartagena and sleeping on hamacs on the beach. Living with Mongols in Mongolia The GOBbi Desert. Riding elefants without any chairs in the north of Thailand, bathing them feeding them!! Walking 3 days to vulkano Ranjani in Indonesia and taking a bath in its CALDERA: walking up Vulkan Bathur at 3 am in Bali. Asisting to the princess wedding in Jakkarta!! 4 days of traditional wedding! Diving with seals in Cabo San Lucas. Diving with whale sharks in Koh Tao, doing a cage shark diving with 5m white sharks in the south of Australia. Cave diving in MExicos Cenotes.!! AMAZING Experience (CENOTE angelita another world!!). In Cuba partying with locals and talking with older people who faught next to Che GUEVARA: Organising my own choreographies and presenting them with 2 girls infront of 150 people!! For this European summer i will buy a van with 2 friends and we will travel from one festival to the other around Europe selling COLOMBIAN food. Asisting to a meditation camp with Monks in Thailand amazing experience!.Traveling and working in New Zealand! Its beauty is so vast that i could write books about the places i have seen a real magical place.Saving 2 stray baby dogs from the streets and finding them a new home. Experiencing a natural sauna of a coffe Farm in middle of no where with the Chilenian leaders Condor. But the most important: Being always there for others!!

Teach, Learn, Share

latin dancing, lenguages, colombian cooking, Vulkanism, travel advices, travelling!! Event organisation and counselling.

Wanna learn more about painting, arts, people, volcanos, psychoanalisis and spiritualiy

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am a Filantropist, loving to help people out without expecting nothing in return,

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, France, Gibraltar, Indonesia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, Poland, Russian Federation, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Colombia, France, Germany, Malta, Panama

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