Dave is a 37-year-old Brazilian sociologist. He was born in Bahia in the Brazilian northeast. He is the youngest of 8 children (4 sisters and 3 brothers). Works as a professor of sociology at the University of São Paulo. Loves to travel, play guitar, cook and is a movie buff. He has lived in Buenos Aires and Paris, where he has completed doctoral degrees. He has a dog named Lux. He has been married to Mariana for 10 years. He met her in a doctoral internship in Buenos Aires.

Marian is a 36 year old psychologist and pedagogue. She was born in Buenos Aires, and since 2009 she lives with Dave in Brazil. She worked many years as a teacher and now she is engaged in therapy and educational psychology research. She also gives classes of psychopedagogy for teachers. She loves to listen to music, read, walk along the beach near his house. Loves her dog Lux and her husband Dave, with whom she likes to travel.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We want to know the culture of the places we visit in a more genuine way and have the opportunity to make exchanges about how we live, our habits and to get in touch with other people, to learn and expand. We believe that this will enrich our travelers experience and we will be able to offer our experience, culture and way of life with others. We are interested in knowing a most real side of tourism.

Interests

We like to talk about life and share with others their world readings.

• cooking
• reading
• music
• classical music
• cultural studies
• cinema
• learning languages
• learning new things
• walking around

Music, Movies, and Books

Aerosmith, Legião Urbana, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, Manu Chao, Mozart, Cesaria Evora, Tango and Samba.
All movies of Hitchcock, Chaplin and Buñuel.
All books of Cortazar, Borges, Saramago, Allan Poe.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walk 8 hours of hiking. Do the 20 km run of San Silvestre in Brazil.

Teach, Learn, Share

Share our experience of having lived in Brazil, Argentina and France. The languages we dominate and those that are still in process. Share the traditional culinary and artistic traditions of these countries, especially their music, history and social movements. If you have a guitar, Dave could play samba and bossa nova! :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

We would love to help with Spanish and Portuguese people who are learning.

Countries I’ve Visited

Chile, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, France