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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
pushing social innovation projects and promoting volunteering in LATAM
ABOUT ME
I thought I was a traveller but since 2010 I fell in love with Ecuador and it seems quite hard for me to get out of here. But now i got on the road again and start traveling this december 2015 in the south of Latam.
I love good music (able to cross the continent to go to Lollapalooza), discussions with real arguments, politics and talking endlessly about gastronomy, books and solving issues (also secretly in love with Jams Bond so don't openly criticise him though Spectre was not that good).
Create your own visited map of The World
PHILOSOPHY
well, be open and don't believe you're open minded until you lived with VERY different minded people. I always thought I was respectful in my discourse until I lived in Ecuador and was put in the minority misunderstood group.
If you can't talk, cook or run or do something but don't complain from a sofa.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
lately participating in the free salsa class we give to foreigners, hosting when I can, telling everyone how there is no life without CS though quite busy with work.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
you know this impression when you meet with someone from your hometown on the other side of the planet? or when someone from this other side of the planet has got so many similar tastes as yours? We all try to be singular but we are usually very similar in our singularities
My first experience with couch surfing was in a department with sauna in Estonia, from the day onward i never doubted people kindness.
Interests
got to update this profile...
anything related to the shared/circular economy. At the moment i take part in the construction of the 1st tech&innovation coworking space in Ecuador, with plans to open others and open a fablab very soon.
writing about social innovation and why in a leftist country it's so little developped. Social is not charity.
- writing
- books
- cooking
- running
- sauna
- politics
- technology
- traveling
- music
- surfing
- volunteering
Music, Movies, and Books
so bad at names but no life with Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, Bloc party and C2C and many many more.
My favorite song: Wonderwall, Oasis
Movies: inception, the visitor, gomorra, It's a free world, ... older movies like: Léon, Matrix, Kusturica's movies (very bad at remembering names) ...
Grand hotel Budapest
books: Orhan Pamuk and others, gabriel garcia marquez, Neruda, and most books about changing the world for the better (muhamad Yunus), brave new world
music:ska, balkan music, rock, the streets, the kooks, the tellers, franz ferdinand, les ogres de barback, babylon circus, but also keith jarett and sometimes daft punk
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
No sé amo ayudar y saber que cada uno puede cambia al mundo :)
Teach, Learn, Share
se enseña escuchando.
I could talk about deep deep human experience but well it all depends on what we believe is deep.
Puedo enseñar de como se va de una idea a un proyecto que revoluciona al mundo en 9 etapas.
What I Can Share with Hosts
I was born in Brittany the land of the crepes! otherwise really bad nerd jokes too.
Countries I’ve Visited
Canada, Chile, Estonia, Italy, Mexico, Philippines, Romania, Serbia, Spain, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan
Countries I’ve Lived In
Canada, Ecuador, Estonia, France, Netherlands