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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Live life and do all I couldn't have done before because of my job. I was a teacher.
ABOUT ME
I am an open minded person, well travelled, easy going and with a good sense of humor.
I'm adventurous, I'm not afraid of life changing challenges. I'm a good friend to my friends. I love sunshine as well as rainy days!!
PHILOSOPHY
Live and let live!
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I'm just starting and I feel it will be great! hope to receive people from all over the world and received SO much useful information ...I also hope I can give them the best of my hospitality...
Interests
Everything which makes me/others happy!
Like travelling, reading, meeting interesting people, new places and different cultures...I can´t live without art Painting, sculpture) or theatre.
- arts
- literature
- reading
- traveling
- painting
- teaching
- languages
Music, Movies, and Books
Hard to choose. Lars von Trier is one of my favourite film director. As for music I hate metal. Concerning books... Philip Roth, Vargas Llosa, Pamuk, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Gonçalo M. Tavares, José Luís Peixoto, António Lobo Antunes...
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Done: Leading a project of teaching Portuguese in East-Timor; teaching in a jail for 13 years and teaching handicap children.
Seen: Angkhor, Maya civilization...
Teach, Learn, Share
I'm ready to teach, learn, share languages and literature as well as certain aspects of cultural themes.