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Overview

  • 1 reference
  • Fluent in English, German, Spanish; learning French, Quechua
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Studies and Creative Writing
  • Current educational system - Sociology
  • From Quito
  • Profile 75% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Writing, Finding new places to write...

ABOUT ME

I was born in Loja, a small city in southern Ecuador. I grew up in Quito, a wonderful city, where I studied Sociology. Now I live in Berlin, Germany. I'm very much into creative writing, I write poetry, and some short stories. I also like very much to struggle against the limits of knowledge partialisation; I think science, art, aswell as other forms of knowledge have to push their inner boundaries and to merge into something new.
I'm very interested in philosophy.

Traveling has been always part of my life, partially because I lived far away from my family and in order to visit them I had always to travel between northern and southern Ecuador. I have experience as a backpacker, I've made Autostop, and also travelled with a tent. I've travelled among many countries in Latin America (Brasil, Argentina, Perú, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Cuba) and Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain). Traveling is part of my life, and now that I'm completing my Master'degree studies here in Berlin, I also want to know more about easter, northern and central Europe.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to help anyone who wants to know Berlin or Ecuador, by providing help, information, and a couch or mattress. I also wanto to know people interested on traveling, and who can provide me help, information and a couch or a mattress in some other city.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couchsurfing experience principally in Latin America, with the "Viajeros" site, which is pretty much the same for backpackers in South America.

Interests

Reading, hearing music, traveling, walking, playing soccer, swimming, writing...

  • arts
  • writing
  • poetry
  • walking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • backpacking
  • soccer
  • swimming
  • science
  • sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Aronofsky, Kauffman, Kubrick, Buñuel, C. Nolan, Cordero, Tarkovsky, Fassbinder.
Music: very wide, thematic research.
Books: poetry (Vallejo, Huidobro, Whitmann, Blake, Hölderlin, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautremont, Cesaire) literature (Kafka, Borges, Rulfo, Dostoievsky) sociology, science and philosophy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador

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