Hello everyone! I'm Matteo and I'm a college student from Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland. I love to travel and to get to know new cultures and traditions, and I also like to learn new languages (I speak Italian, English and French). I love to work with children and young people, and I’m currently studying to become an elementary school teacher.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because I'm open to meet new people and willing to travel a lot MORE than how I'm doing at the moment (I've never been outside Europe for now, but I plan to visit as many countries as I can in my lifetime)

Interests

I love to read (especially sci-fi and fantasy movies), my favorite fantasy writer is Ursula K. Le Guin. I'm interest in history, philosophy, sociology and psychology, and I act in theater (or at least I did, for 8 years). I like to read english classics too (Orwell, Bradbury, Tolkien, Dickens and Hemingway in particular). When I was a kid I was fascinated by scale models and relief maps (I also wanted to be a meteorologist), but now this early passion is kind of fading away. I’m not a very sportive type, but I do like to watch ice-hockey, and I sometimes ski or ice-skate (so mainly winter sports).

• humanities
• writing
• theater
• movies
• traveling
• skiing
• sports
• hockey
• cartography
• teaching
• history
• languages
• psychology
• social work
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

There are many of them, but I can give you some titles: BOOKS (excluding HP, LOTR, Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner and other mainstream fantasy/sci-fi sagas) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003) Anima Mundi by Susanna Tamaro (1997) Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838) El Mòn Blau (The Blue World) by Albert Espinosa (2015) (this is actually brand new!) The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino (1959) MOVIES (again, excluding the classic ones): Stand by me (1986), by Rod Reiner Joyeaux Noel (2005), by Christian Carion About a Boy (2003), by Chris and Paul Weitz AI- Artificial Intelligence (2001), by Steven Spielberg Jurassic Park (1993), by Steven Spielberg The Sixth Sense (1999), by M. Night Shyamalan The Book Thief (2013), by Brian Percival MUSIC (main genres) Rock Pop-rock Pop Rap Irish-Celtic music New Age I especially like Nickelback, Maroon 5, Imagine Dragons, Coldplay, Sweedish House Mafia, Amy McDonald, and others... For something different I LOVE Ludovico Einaudi, Enya, and the soundtracks from Hans Zimmer! There are a loads more, this is just to give you an idea.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Going to Dublin, Ireland to study english for a month!

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn about new people (and possibly new languages) and receive a feedback, by living a bidirectional nourishing experience, culturally and socially.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Switzerland