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Overview

  • 4 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning German
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2012
  • Dipl. Chemical Engineer
  • No education listed
  • From Resistencia, Chaco Province, Argentina
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About Me

ABOUT ME

Friendly, funny, adaptive, energetic, positive.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I believe that in order to learn/sense/feel the most in a place you visit you need to meet the locals, It's hands down the best way to grasp the culture of the place.
Couchsurfing is one of the best ways to do that.

Interests

Other cultures, environment, art, photography, engineering, movies, books, music, places around the world.

  • books
  • environment
  • movies
  • cars
  • music
  • chemistry
  • engineering

Music, Movies, and Books

With movies the list will be endless. Movieholic. I see a lot and a read a lot about movies too.

In music, I hear a lot, from classic Rock the 60´70´ (Zeppelin, Floyd, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, The Police, Bob Dylan, Dire Straits, Bruce Springtenn, Johnny Cash, The Cure, and so on.) Also U2, Nirvana, Eric Clapton, Blind Faith, Gnarls Barkley, Metallica, Guns&Roses, INXS, Leonard Cohen, Mike Oldfield, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Talking Heads, SOAD, The Rollings Stones, Beirut, The Strokes, The White Stripes
A little of Rap too with Macklemore, 50 cent, Eminem, Jay Z.
I really enjoy Classical music, not only Beethoven, Mussorgsky, Eric Satie, Tchaikovsky and Mozart too of course.
A little modern Daft Punk, Kid Cudi, Tiesto, Depeche Mode, MGMT, Moby, My morning Jacket.
Argentinian Music too. Los Redonditos, La Renga, Bersuit, Babasonicos, Soda Stereo, Charly Garcia, Mercedes Sosa, Los Autenticos Decadentes, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.

Books, my currently favorite authors are Hermann Hesse and Kafka, I read Siddharta, Demian, and the Steppenwolf from the first; and The Castle (das Schloss) and "Letter to his Father" (Brief an der Vater) from the second.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

. Doing a Bike trip through the Alps, from Salzburg till the Adriatic Sea, and from there to Ljubljana.
. Trip around Iceland
.Trip to Salta (Arg)
.Trip to Switzerland in winter
.10 Friends, 2 cars, 14 days around Europe: Salzburg, Budapest, Wien, Praha, Nüremberg, Karlsruhe, Luxemburg, Brussels, Bruge, Gent, Amsterdam, Köln.
.Get the scolarschip to Deutschland.
.After the camel ride, sleeping in the Sahara Desert directly on the sand, just a carpet to cover and with the amazing roof of starts with no moon.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Germany

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