CURRENT MISSION

no mission for now...looking for the next one!

ABOUT ME

About me....uhm uhm quite difficult!
First, my real name is Elisabetta, somebody call me Liz, somobody Eli, somobody Betta...(not in this order)it depends where and when we met...for me it's the same! LOL

I started my adventure on couchsurfing when i was living in Paris(5 months,since March 2007).
I'm sicilian, and i grew up in Palermo, but I lived in many other cities

PHILOSOPHY

podran cortar las flores pero no podran detener la primavera!(P. Neruda)

odio et amo quare id faciam fortasse requiris nescio sed fieri sentio et excrucior (Catullo)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

just two in Paris : Rafik (from Quebec) and Nicolas (from Germany).
and one in Rennes: Celine hosted me

then in Palermo my brother hosted Henning and Niklas(from Germany)....i was busy studying so i had not enough time to host! LOL!!!

FROM THIS POINT I JUST WRITE THE NAMES AND WHERE THEY WHERE FROM (IF I WILL REMBER TO UPDATE MY PROFILE!!!)
Francisca, from Chile (i hosted her 3 days)
Romain, from France (we met for a coffee)
Yael, from Israel (we met for a visit around siena)
Pietro,from Italy (i hosted him 1 day)
Romain and Claire, from France ( i hosted them 1day)
Jonathan, from Quebec (we met for a cofee)
Gloria from Switzerland-Canada (i hosted her 2 days)
Anthony from USA (my roommate hosted him for 2 days)
Deniz from Turkey (she-and her brother-hosted me for 3days)

Interests

people
love
books
politcs
world
sea
dance
cinema
sun
music
...
and more and more things

• culture
• books
• dancing
• coffee
• movies
• music
• guitar
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

so difficult and so long writing here....
anyway..just one or two(or a little bit more....):

some of my favourites movies :
FRIDA
EVITA
IN MY COUNTRY
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (LOL)
FULL METAL JACKET
DR. STRANGELOVE
THE HOURS
...
some of my favourites books(just the moderns ones...too diffcult writing about the classics I love...LIKE the french and russian romans ....Flaubert, Balzac, Maupassant...Tolstoi, Dostowieski...LIKE the Theatre Writers, since Sofocle to Brecht):
RAYAUELA by J. Cortazar
SIDDARTHA by H. Hesse
MISTER MANI by A. Yehoshua
LA CASA DE LOS ESPIRITUS by I. Allende
DEL AMOR Y OTROS DEMONIOS by G.G.Marquez
MANANA EN LA BATAILLA PIENSA EN MI by J. Marias

about music is even more difficult, so just : JAZZ, TANGO('cause i dance it...LOL),REGGAE, CLASSICAL MUSIC, OPERA (I'm italian... i grew up with "Violetta" and "Butterly") TRADITIONAL MUSIC (from every part of the world: music is one of the best ways to try to understand a culture!), "POLITICAL" SONGS ( like the partisan's songs during the resistance war in Italy...my grandmam spent some time with them...)AND , for the italians that know him, FABRIZIO DE ANDRE'!!!!( I grew up listening his songs...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

MEXICO..............
PARIS.........
yes i know these are just places...but amazing places!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH....BUT ALSO SHARE: Italian, Italian culture,Latin( not so necessary for your life, but interesting), Dancing, Political actions and proposes (i love talking about it...)overall about "nonviolence" and "zapatism"...

LEARN :
as many languages as possible.....
as many cultures as possible....
as many ways of thinking as possible...
maybe also to play guitar (but i'm sure i won't be a good student!LOL)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Guatemala, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France, Italy, United States

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