ABOUT ME

I'm a chilean adopted by brittany, I did my studies abroad to learn more about the french culture and to travel in europe for a while. I'm passionate aboout books and I'm now working as a publisher in the univerity press of Rennes.
I love to travel and I can adapt very easily, i love to learn different languages, and even if i already speak french and english i would like to learn german and maybe other languages in the futur. I'm passionate about the culture in general. Music, cinéma, theatre, fotography, i love everything!!. I also like science, specially physics ( i study one year of physics and math before starting with litterature). I'm a very curious person, a little shy at first but if we get along well you're gonna see that i can even be funny. I love to learn about everything and everyone even if we dont share the same opínions.

PHILOSOPHY

no todo lo que es oro brilla

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love the idea of hosting and meeting people we wouldn't meet otherwise, couchsurfing is a great platform to get to meet the local people when you travel and give you a different experience of the place you're travelling, not only it gives you a different approach of your travel, it gives you the most important thing that makes us happy: the joy of meeting new people and make new friends.
Travel is one of the most cool things in the world, i like to meet the locals and try to travel with very little money, hitchhiking and camping is the only way to truly discover a new place.

Interests

Besides my passion for books and all kinds of arts, i enjoy doing my own creations (in form of calligrams), i also work with stencils and do a little bit of photography and street art. I'm learning how to play the melodica (mostly cumbia and reggae). I'm also taking a clown workshop and trying to find my inner clown. I enjoy very much taking long rides on my bike, walking and i do a little bit of rock climbing, snorkeling, sailing and swimming.

• arts
• culture
• books
• street art
• photography
• cumbia
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• walking
• traveling
• socializing
• knitting
• music
• cycling
• camping
• snorkeling
• sailing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• languages
• mathematics
• physics
• science
• hitchhiking
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Rayuela, Julio Cortázar
The doors of perception, Aldous Huxley
Los detectives salvajes, Bolaño
Brave new world, Aldous Huxley
Péregrinations d'une Paria, Flora Tristan
Des éclairs, Jean Echenoz
La vie mode d'emploi, Georges Perec
1984, Georges Orwell
Cien años de soledad, Gabriel García Marquéz
L'étranger, Albert Camus
Le joueur d'échecs, Stefan Zweig
La métamorphose, Kafka
Poemas y antipoemas, Nicanor Parra
2666, Bolaño
all the books written by Jerome Diamond

I have a very ecclectic taste in music, but i love specially cumbia, psychedelic rock and garage, rap.
Some of the music on my mp3 right now: the hell gang, the garden, mourn, dengue dengue dengue, quantic, M.I.A, Oddisee, chet faker, deep purple, pink floyd, the ganjas, the red belmont, major lazer, chinese man, chancha via circuito, los mirlos, toto la momposina, the mars volta, django django, the doors, tool, tame impala.

I like dark films, big fan of Kubrick and Gaspard Noé, also love Lars von trier and Werner Herzog. I also enjoy all kind of documentarys, some of my favourite: the qatsi trilogy, samsara, latcho drom, the cave of forgotten dreams just to name a few.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailing the english channel from Brest to Falmouth and being confronted to big scary waves.
Seeing the dolphins approach us when we sail is the most enlightening experience i've ever had, it was like the dolphins where really aware of our prescence and were actually socialiazing with us
Hitchhiking all the north of Chile (from Valparaiso to Arica).
Meeting in her 70th birthday the great Toto la momposina.
Making one hundred calligrams in one hundred days.

the kindness of the people in the south of chile really surprised me!!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you spanish and french. I can teach you how to do stencils and calligrams and even how to knit a scarf!. I can actually cook a variaety of chilean and vegetarian food, i love to bake cakes and other sweet pastries. I love to bicycle and long walks near the sea or trekking in the mountain with other people. I can teach a little bit about plants (specially near the sea whre i can show you some wild plant that are edible).

What I Can Share with Hosts

I live in Betton, a city near near Rennes, in the countryside. I love to ride my bicycle i love to ride my bike, to the forest we can ride!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Peru, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, France, Switzerland