You can see more about the stuff I like on my facebook profile if you want:

https://www.facebook.com/42.LuanVieira

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I create this profile in the end of 2015 because I was about to make an exchange program in Ithaca, NY, USA to stay at Cornell Law School doing a research. I had a lot of great Couchsurfing experiences, by lot I mean at least 6 or 7. Americans are very welcoming and you can know some people that hosted me on my references.
I had the chance to host two people in São Paulo in the second semester of 2016 but they didn't wrote me a reference because I was dumb and forgot to organize everything at couchsurfing. One is someone that hosted me in Boston when I was doing an exchange program and traveled to Brazil and the other is a friend that don't have a Couchsurfing profile.

Interests

I'm interested in a lot of everything, from atomic physics to astronomy (Carl Sagan made me love science), from human to society behavior, from microeconomics to macroeconomics (I like to study economics by myself), from your history as a child to now, from studying to partying, from doing nothing to doing everything.
Be sure that anything you talk with me I'll think it interesting. Every single conversation can teach me something, and I just love these insights that make me comprehend more about you.

• writing
• dining
• fitness
• partying
• technology
• traveling
• guitar
• hiking
• rock climbing
• astronomy
• economics
• entrepreneurship
• history
• law
• physics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Pink Floyd. Rock and indie stuff in general. Love science fiction movies and books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The best thing I've done was with my family, October, 2014. We were at Machu Picchu just for one day and we decided -especially because we had bought the ticket months before- to climb the Machu Picchu mountain, also called "montaña" (not the Wayna Picchu mountain, Wayna Picchu is "easier").
But we didn't knew that there was a limit time to start climbing, so by the time we got there they were already not letting people enter to climb. But we entered! And we had a limited time to finish all the climbing, because they start to "kick out" people up there.
My family and me don't have much experience in hiking, especially climbing. We idiots also had a lot of heavy backpacks. My parents are more fitness prepared than me and my brothers, but my mom is a little short and the trail is very steep. After half an hour of climbing she started complaining and saying that she couldn't climb anymore, that she would stop and wait and we could climb without her, but for me there was no point climbing without everyone up there, I would later regret a lot for not trying harder. But we insisted and insisted. We helped her, we paused, we waited, we insisted more. After a lot of sacrifice we got up there and it was awesome. It's an incredible view, but more important, my all family was there. We even stayed half an hour up there and we make friendship with the guy who, unfortunately, had to be boring and kick out everyone. That moment was priceless and I didn't realize that that moment was "One Amazing Thing I've Done" until I wrote this, but I would better put that this is not "One Amazing Thing I've Done", it's actually "One Amazing Thing We've Done" as a family.
One amazing thing I've done alone was skiing. When I was about to live in Ithaca to make the exchange program I traveled with my family before it started. It was our first time skiing and we skied for two days in Lake Placid at Whiteface Mountain, NY, USA. Then they returned to Brazil and I stayed in Ithaca and I returned to Lake Placid to ski alone for a week, mention this so I can know you read my profile. It was fucking amazing. I woke everyday before the very first sunlight to get the bus to the mountain and skied until dawn. 8 days. It was raining and icy at the beginning of the week, but that was good to train and it just got better. I managed to ski some diamond runs within 7 days of skiing. In my last day I met a couple, she was Brazilian and started to talk to me because of the flag I put everyday on my back. They went with me to the absolutely fucking Skyward run, one that I didn't want to go alone. And I did it. Unbelievable. You can see my picture on this run that I took from a video that this couple recorded of me on my pictures.

Teach, Learn, Share

Every possibility to learn something I'll try to.
I can teach Portuguese!
I can teach Brazilian history and some gastronomy too!
I can teach guitar, but I'm no expert.
I'm a law student in Brazil in the University of São Paulo. We have a civil law systematic here, if you have interest to learn more about this I might be able to teach a few stuff.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can go for dinner, hiking, skying, chatt [...]
Plus, I can share endless joy. I mean it. It's really, really hard for me to get nervous, upset or bored.
This endless joy come from two main insights:
- I know how much privileged I am just for having access to the internet and food on the table.
- The world just keeps getting better for the world in general.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States