CURRENT MISSION

I am a bridge-builder focused on the connection of distant realities. For +10 I have been connecting rural communities with companies, ecosystems with environmentally conscious markets, through initiatives focused on social value creation, community empowerment, shared value models, and entrepreneurship. I am currently working with Crepes & Waffles, one of the biggest restaurant chains in Colombia.
Crepes & Waffles is currently connected with nine territories in Colombia, purchasing fruits, vegetables, beans, wheat, cacao, and pepper from small-holder farmers avoiding unnecessary middlemen, offering better prices compared to local markets, fostering community empowerment and environmental conservation.

ABOUT ME

I am a people person. The most important lessons I have gathered come from coffee shop conversations, movies, stories of all kinds. I really like biking, writing, dancing, taking pictures, exploring diverse cuisines and letting life surprise me in every corner. I'm working in communication consultancy for diverse projects with social/environmental impact.
Here my blogs: http://www.marcelab.co http://marcelab.wordpress.com/

PHILOSOPHY

In almost all life experiences you can decide to suffer them or enjoy them, I definitely take the second option

我为什么加入 Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have been hosted by very nice people and I love that opportunity to understand the world from different perspectives. I also get in touch very often with people from CS to share experiences e information about many issues. I'm mostly moving around, but whenever I have a place, I find opportunities of hosting amazing people.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I really like CS, I have met incredible people from CS the last months and now I want to meet CS in everyplace that I'll visit.

兴趣

Food, books, movies, swimming, volunteer, Africa, permaculture, edutainment, social business, radio, images (http://www.flickr.com/photos/56072481@N04/) PEOPLE!

• arts
• books
• dancing
• salsa dancing
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• walking
• crafts
• movies
• crochet
• drawing
• music
• scuba diving
• swimming
• business
• history
• languages
• volunteering

音乐、电影和书籍

Movies (among many):
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino)
Historias Mínimas (Carlos Sorin)
Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
A perfect world (Clint Eastwood)
Into the Wild (Sean Penn)

Books:
The Strainger - Albert Camus
Blindness - José Saramago
The perfum - Patrick Süskind
The unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera
Que viva la música - Andrés Caicedo
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
The Blue Sweater: Bridgind the Gap Between the Rich and the Poor - Jacqueline Novogratz
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good - William Easterly
Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm

Music:
I´m very eclectic. I love tango and salsa. I like folk music from Colombia and I love to discover traditional sounds from other places. I enjoy rock in Spanish (Soda Stereo, Fito Paez, Cafe Tacuba, Molotov) and also in English (Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd...)
Some of my favorites (among many):
Bob Marley, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Ben Harper, Calle 13, Alicia Keys, Hector Lavoe, Rubén Blades, La Ocho y Media, Gotan Project, Carlos Gardel, Robi Draco Rosa, Bebe, El Cigala, Buenavista Social Club, Jamiroquai, BB King, Bob Dylan, Tracy Chapman.

我做过的一件不可思议的事情

Sky diving

教，学，和分享

Teach: Spanish, crochet, google tools (they are awesome!), some salsa dancing.
Learn: Languages, art crafts, history, music, cinematography, draw, cooking, etc.

我可以与沙发主分享些什么

Experiences I have gathered by walking around asking questions and sharing good conversations.

我游览过的国家

Argentina, Colombia, United States

我居住过的国家

Colombia, Mozambique, United States

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