CURRENT MISSION

All I want do now is too meet and share conversation and fun with as many people as possible. During my roaming I'd like to learn practical skills (languages, playing instruments, taking photos, cooking, making things, building, organising events)

ABOUT ME

I was born in Sicily, a mysterious, hot, sensual island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. I've had itchy feet and wanted to escape since I can remember. I'm open to (almost) everything that's new to me; in particular I want to learn and know as many things and people as I can. I'm in a turning point of my life in which I feel like time to recap all my experiences has come, so I look forward to communicate and answer any question about my previous trips.
I don't like staying by myself and that's why I like meeting and possibly staying in contact with people.

PHILOSOPHY

Learn, live, lead!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing (and hosting people when I can), I hope to enrich the people I meet.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couched surfed in Berlin before at Elias's place (you'll find him the reviews). I'm not sure if that really counts though as I'd met him in person in a pub in London a few months earlier (i.e. not through this webiste)

Most of the accomodations during my trips have been friends' couches, especially when a couple of years ago I decided to set up a new life in London and didn't have money for impersonal crappy hostels.

Anyway after 13 years of scouts and 6 years of serious travelling I developed quite good adaptivity skills.

Interests

I truly enjoy agriculture and life outdoor. In future, I would like to work in the agribusiness sector.

My hobby is sailing.

• cooking
• modeling
• pub crawls
• traveling
• outdoor activities
• backpacking
• surfing
• sailing
• agriculture
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Matrix, In the mood for Love, 2046, Eat Drink Man Woman, Iron 3, Kitchen Stories, La vita è bella, Fight Club, Good Night and Good Luck, Trainspotting, Man on wire, Leon, Le grand blue, The nightmare before Christams, The corpse bride, Apres Vous, Les Coristes, Collateral, Aristocats, Vanilla Sky,Goodbye Lenin,Confidences trop intimes, Lista de Espera, That boat that rocked, Notting Hill, Four Weddings and funeral, Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, Monsoon Weddings, El abrazo partido, Gegen die Wand (Head-on), Lord of War, Amelie, Caramel,Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), Motorcycle Diaries, La piel que habito, Todo su mi madre, Sideways and many others I can't think about right now.

BOOKS: The master and Margarita (I love Russian literature but I'm not an expert), The Great Gatsby, Reading Lolita in Teheran, A fortune teller told me (in general all books by Tiziano Terzani), The Shadow of the sun (all books by Ryszard Kapuściński) The reluctant fundamentalist, The shadow of the wind, Red Sorghum, The totem of the wolf, Things fall apart, Half a yellow sun, Epistulae ad Lucilium by Seneca (I like Latin classics in particular Cicero, Lucretius, Oratius and Seneca) etc.. I like reportage journalist and non-fiction books about Justice and Development (ex. The banker to the poor; The idea of Justice)

COMICS: Guy Delisle: Chroniques Birmanes, Pyongyang, Shenzhen. Joe Sacco: The Unwanted, Palestine.

MUSIC: Vampire Weekend, The strokes, Muse,Queen, Beatles, Franco Battiato, Jovanotti, Fabrizio De Andrè, Pink Martini, Bajofondo, Gotan Project, Buena Vista Social Club, Goran Bregovic; jazz, classical, AudioSushi, danceable music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived in Beijing for 2 months, with no money, a backpack (literally a small rugsack)and a few Mandarrin words in my mouth.

Travelled from Beijing to Hong Kong without taking planes in 18 days.

Delivered a speech at Model United Nations at the presence of Secretary General Ban Ki Moon

Teach, Learn, Share

"Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!"
Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, China, Italy, United Kingdom