CURRENT MISSION

To love people and be loved to the fullest !

ABOUT ME

I absolutly adore to travel... it´s the heritage that my parents gave to me and i need always to search for permanent knowledge!
Beguinner as couchsurfer right now :)
I have a degree in psychology but i prefer life school :)

I love sunflowers and live by the sea.
Yelow is my favorite colour.Budist.
Love to be with my family and friends.Arts in general.

Love surprises.Adore jazz, blues, bossa nova, opera, funk, regga, arternative and tribal music...all the good music.

Love vintage and kitch things and to take photos.
Just like to walk and chat whitout time or worries.

Maria love to cook and experiment world food and wines.
Being lay down at the sun and slowly fall asllep.

I have many energy, liberal, easygoing, openmind, curious and criative.
But what i like more is to make anyone happy just with a smile and laught for hours in a role.

Many years being a full time volunteer for anyone i can help.
I am just a kid using woman shoes...
So hello, my name is maria :)

PHILOSOPHY

...share what you have ...and be who you are... and say what you feel because those who mind don t matter and those who matter don t mind.
"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself, which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable." maya angelou

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
Buddha
So this are my intents.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

"There is no way to Happiness. Happiness is the way.
There is no wealth like knowledge, and no poverty like ignorance."
Buddha
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
Vince Lombardi

Traveling means to me sharing everything with another human beings, thats why i am going to beggin my journey like couchsurfer! :)

Interests

arts, music, singing.play with friends, and traveling.psychology,sociology and filosophy.
photos, cinema, theatre, paiting, sculpture, architecture, design,family.
flowers and plants.wine and good organic food.sea.
cooking always with love.writting and reading

• arts
• books
• poetry
• singing
• architecture
• design
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• organic food
• flowers
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• jazz
• blues
• opera
• cycling
• teaching
• languages
• psychology
• sociology
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

It's been a year now that i dont have t.v. but i remember this ones: qatsi trio , million dollar hotel/baby, before sunrise / before sunset, la haine, into the wild, natural born killers, figth club, magnolia, dogville, pay it foward, spain residence, american beauty, once upon a time in the west / in america, the departed, Lisboa, the english pacient, airbag, pulp fiction, princess mononoke and the walking castle, black cat white cat, le fabouloux destin d´amelie Poulain, lost in translation, trainspotting, eyes wide shut, cinema paradiso, pablo neruda postman, delicatessen, taxi driver, blue velvet, schildler´s list, madinson county bridges, persona, frida, saga kill bill and all the classics from bergman, wim wenders, sergio leone, buster keaton, tarantino, almodovar, cohen brothers, truffaut, bertolucci, kubrick,lars von trier, goddart, kurosawa, linch, renoir, fellini, welles, eastwood, visconti, pollack, copolla clã.
Music: lhasa de sela, sia, wim mertens, billie holliday, debussi, cat power, sigur rós, jeff buckley, astor piazolla, benjamin biolay, chavela vargas, maria callas, ella fitzgerald, nina simone, tom waits, serge grainsbourg, p.j.harvey, david silvian, fujiya & miyagi, craig armstrong, , nine inch nails, velvet underground, ryuichi sacamoto, paris combo, ennio moriconne, squirrel nut zippers, air, dead can dance, têtes raides, pablo conte, riho sibul, elis regina, m.i.a, patrick wolf, lisa gerrard, brad melhdau, radiohead, massive attack, rodrigo leão, scarlett johansson, richard galliano...and so on and on :)
Books: oscar wilde, fernando pessoa, paul auster, edgar allan poe, virginia woolf, simone du beauvoir, kafka, george orwell, a lot of poetry( florbela espanca, herberto helder), budism literature, hemingway, maya angelou, gabriel garcia marquez, brecht, machado de assis, jose luis peixoto, pablo neruda, saramago, cervantes, borges, vinicious de moraes, joyce mayer.....coulg be here forever :) but i also like a good magazine or newspaper...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Experienced to be an internacional hostess in the biggest cuise line in the world (Royal Caribbean International) for 2 years in a role.
It was absolutly amaizing to travel 24 by 24 hours non stop in all the continents!
Metting and working all kind of people from all the world :)
I´ve become a better person,am i sure because of this :)
Never will forget all the good memories, places and folks that i met there. Thanks life!

Teach, Learn, Share

I think i can sing /teach to sing,the same with languages(talk and write),cooking, riding a horse, laugthing, dancing, painting, taking photos, chare and read books and poetry and i am humble and willing to lurn everything everybody can teach me.Lurn to play harmonica and a good teacher to teach me to ride a bike it will be my 2009 gold to achieve that dream!:)ai ai ai

Countries I’ve Visited

Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Gibraltar, Greece, Haiti, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Portugal, Spain

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