CURRENT MISSION

To redesign the world. I loath stability - I aim to create, no matter what. My travels are both physical and "spiritual" if you like. To travel is, I believe, a way to rediscover the world by knowing new lands and the people who live in it.

ABOUT ME

I was born in Lisboa (Portugal's capital), the 20th August 1978. A gorgeous lion, I barely could stand myself - my amazing inner light was blinding me already!!! When I was 5 I went to Mozambique where I stayed for about 4 or 5 years. I studied there in italian and came back to Portugal where I spent my time doing nothing. It was a fine bliss. I was sent to school for my miseducation, and, finally back to freedom, some years later, I found out that my main interest in life was to meet new places and to discover the people I come across with (I fortunately met some places and some people already), to learn everything I can, and to create (music [I'm a fair guitar player], drawings [I almost do something nice], writings [I can wirte my own name in several languages back and forward with one eye closed and one hand behind my back], advertisements [I can promote anytihing, from a toothbrush to a screwdriver, except myself]). However, a strange twist of Fate (very unfair, naturally) is making me face the dulness of a desk job, but soon (I am quite sure of it) I will be able to throw it all away and to replace such dulness for something more thrilling and compensating: the daily pleasure of tasting what is new. This is who I am - and what about you?

PHILOSOPHY

Arts, Women, Freedom of speech - Love them to the bone!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I knew about couch surfing thorugh a friend who is very pleased with this network. I find the concept of CS amazing and I'm glad to have the opportunity of making part of it, as I am looking forward to be able (which is unfortunaltely not the case at the moment) to offer back to the community what I am now asking from it. Thanks for letting me in, I do hope it goes bigger as time goes by. Long live CS!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

So Far So Good

Interests

Music, Literature, Cinema, Arts in general, publicity, History, Travelling, People («give a little of that human touch»), Sports Football, Volleyball, Swimming, Cycling, Chess),Nature, Life (the greatest mystery)

• arts
• literature
• movies
• chess
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• cycling
• surfing
• sports
• soccer
• volleyball
• swimming
• communications
• history
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Dead Poets Society, Dogville, Natural Born Killers, Americain X, Black Cat White Cat, A Clockwork Orange, Amores Perros, La Vita È Bella, Edward Scisor's Hands, Big FIsh, Good Will Hunting, Match Point, The Piano, Moulin Rouge, Wilde at Heart, In the Wilde, Monthy Python and The Holly Grail, etc.
Music: Pink Floyd, Queen, Pixies, The Cure, Iron Maiden, Chopin, dEUS, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Cetano Veloso, Tom Jobim, etc.
Books: The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoievski), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), A Ilustre Casa de Raimires (Eça de Queiroz), Aleph (Jorge Luis Borges), Le Città Invisibili (Italo Calvino), Faust (Goethe), Shakespeare, Don Quijote de la Mancha (Cervantes), L'Homme qui Rit (Victor Hugo), etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Things I've done (and felt) that made my life worth living: I loved and was loved, I swam across a small river, from one edge to the other (it wasnt easy, it wasn't wise, but it felt so good!), I momentarily flew a small plain, I've lived amongst other cultures and learned something from them, I took a bath, completly naked, with 10 or 15 more friends, in plane winter, at night in a lonely beach, I have been in Machu Pichu!!!!and, even more amazing... I exist! It may not seem much to you, but to me, it made a difference...

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn everything about people and arts. This is what I look for, and a little bit of this is also what I can offer to others.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cabo Verde, Canada, France, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, Swaziland, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Italy, Mozambique, Portugal, Switzerland

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