ABOUT ME

I am mostly a product of my small, conservative and conflicting third-world society. In the meantime, I am doing a PhD in London.

My favourite activity by far is traveling: seeing and learning about new places and languages. Although I'd rather stay home reading a good book with some music on the background and a good cup of hot chocolate, or having a good chat, I also like going out for a drink with good company. If it's about getting out to know a new place, I'm ready to wear out my shoes. I also have a strong inclination for mythologies or anything that resembles them.

I don't really enjoy any hippie-like experience of tourism. I like traveling alone, meeting interesting people in the way, but I don't really take part in the citizen-of-the-world-idea based communities. (Update: I wrote this several years ago, but after living in London for a while, I have some new thoughts on this.. ask me :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted many people in Guatemala, but I have never done any travelling. Looking forward to it!

Interests

Every now and then I write a new short story.

• books
• chocolate
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• history
• languages
• science
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Latin American Literature (Borges, Garci­a Marquez, Maurice Echeverria, Vallejo, etc.) and others, especially Kundera, Kafka, Tolstoi, Chejov, Nabokov (etc. with the Russians), Mishima, Murakami.

I love mythology, from the Bible and Snorri Sturluson's Eddas to Levi-Strauss.

Music: I am a huge musical fan, mostly 'professional' (or 'classical'), (Mozart, Chopin, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev). I want some film soundtracks too, like Amores Perros and A Clockwork Orange.

Finally, a big movie fan too. My favourites might be Eyes Wide Shut, Antichrist, The Man from Earth, Scott Pilgrim and along those lines. I am always looking for new things to see!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Tikal by night, under the full moon.

Teach, Learn, Share

For anyone coming to Guatemala, I can share my knowledge on my country's history and contemporary situation, which I have gotten to know as part of my job as a social scientist. I take part in various political projects, so I would be glad to share and discuss political issues, mainly regarding Guatemala, Central America, Latin America or America as a whole.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guatemala