(JANUARY 2020: NOT IN MADRID ATM)

When I was a child I used to say to my parents that I hated travelling. But it was only because of that smell of a closed car. It made me dizzy.
What makes me dizzy now is staying stuck in one place , although I enjoy getting grounded in order to know my surroundings and myself. That happened in Granada, that amazing city in Southern Spain. There I studied my bachelor in Social and Cultural Anthropology and found a place that made me happy just with a sunshine or even with raindrops in autumn. When this travelling-discovering passes, I will for sure retire in Albayzin neighborhood in Granada, listening to flamenco and writing some poetry. But that's pretty far now.

I think a lot about identity, even if I seem to have a very precise one. I think about transnationality, nationalism, cultural closeness feelings, those goosebumps when you hear music from the other side of the world (and then you relate it directly to the one played in your hometown!). I think about discrimination a lot, even if I never suffered that. I think about human rights (what's that, who said so), about animals and the environment. I think, the most, about gender equality. Women struggling around the world from different causes. The right to choose.

Anyways.
During my bachelor I had the opportunity to study one semester in Montevideo, Uruguay. Experience from which I still try to recover. Feelings. Perspectives from the other side of the Atlantic. Poetry. I wrote and read a lot of poetry back then.
And after that, the big journey. I started that unique journey with a very special person to southern Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Peru.
I needed to heal after my broken soul in Montevideo, and that journey and that person made it all.

Now, unwilling to stop in one place, I decided that I needed to keep learning and flying so I chose to start my Master's degree in Global Studies Programme. This takes place in Freiburg, Buenos Aires and New Delhi.
So, who knows.
Maybe we see each other in one of these powerful locations.
We can share some flamenco music
some feelings about places
some poetry
some identity issues.

P.S. I still get dizzy when I get the closed car smell. But now I don't say that I hate travelling.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Did some couchsurfing in Holland. That was my first experience and it was great... then I did some in Uruguay and in northern Chile.
Always sweet to meet new people via CS.

Interests

Hey, I didn't say that I love cinema and SHORT FILMS.

"tu mirada de viaje o de desiertos
se vuelve un manantial indescifrable
y el silencio / tu miedo más valiente /
se va con los delfines de la noche
o con los pajaritos de la aurora/
de todo quedan huellas /pistas /trazas
muescas / indicios / signos / apariencias
pero no te preocupes / todo es nada
son señales de humo / apenas eso"
M. Benedetti.

• animals
• arts
• poetry
• movies
• anthropology
• dialects
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

It'd be an offense to create a list of movies and music that I love.
That comes spontaneously talking, too.
I'd be glad to share some playlists of my Spotify with you. Mostly alternative music.

((Cantautores (latinoamericanos y españoles: desde Silvio Rodríguez y Pablo Milanés, pasando por Serrat, Sabina, Ismael Serrano hasta llegar a Eduardo Mateo o Chavela Vargas, por ejemplo, Mercedes Sosa, Victor Jara y más...))

I always have a poetry book in my bag.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visiting Sahara Refugee Camps.
Most amazing (and emotional) experience in my life so far.

Nights in Cabo Polonio, Rocha (Uruguay) - watching the nightsky and the noctilucas shining in the sea.

Teach, Learn, Share

This is always a very difficult part of the profile...
But I'm really into solidarity things, into changing people attitude to the good... And I think I'm a good listener, or at least, I like to listen.

I enjoy discussing and exchanging different points of view... so I'm always willing to open my ears and listen!
I'm really into languages and different dialects, accents and so on. I'm always happy to teach some Spanish to whoever is interested in this poetic language :)

Aprendo muy silenciosamente de los demás. Me encanta observar, y a veces lo interiorizo tanto, tanto... que queda una gran huella en mí. De alguien, de todos, siempre me llevo algo... siempre me llevo "todo".

What I Can Share with Hosts

"Por los caminos voy, como el burrito de San Fernando, un poquito a pie y otro poquito andando. A veces me reconozco en los demás. Me reconozco en los que quedarán, en los amigos abrigos, locos lindos de la justicia y bichos voladores de la belleza y demás vagos como seguirán las estrellas de la noche y las olas de la mar. Entonces, cuando me reconozco en ellos, yo soy aire aprendiendo a saberme continuado en el viento.

Me parece que fue Vallejo, César Vallejo, quien dijo que a veces el viento cambia de aire.

Cuando yo ya no esté, el viento estará, seguirá estando."
Eduardo Galeano.

Countries I’ve Visited

Algeria, Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Western Sahara

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Belgium, Germany, India, Spain, Uruguay