CURRENT MISSION

" I wanna be a photojournalist and find out where I wanna live for the rest of my life... which means travel and live everywhere first! " this was me a few years ago... Now that I've travelled quite a lot I plan to cultivate something stronger here where I decided to find my home: Reggimonti, Liguria. I'm creating a beautiful peaceful space where I live, teach yoga and do gardening.

ABOUT ME

What can I say? I hate writing about me, myself and I..
I'm a romantic daydreamer that still believes you can realise all of your dreams if you really want to..
I am very curious and love learning about everything: languages and different cultures especially... but i guess this is connected to everything else, because learning languages allows you to understand other cultures better...
I love travelling but I get too emotional when I have to leave a place where I lived for more than a few weeks and created connections..
For the last 5 years I've been travelling in Europe, Russia, Latin America, Australia, Japan, India... In Australia I decided to stop for a while as I've been offerred a sponsorship by a company, a coffee roaster, called Schibello, that I worked for for a year... basically I was selling coffee to cafes, restaurants, hotels, art galleries,... it's fun and they gave me a car!
It's not my usual job (translation) but it's still experiencing something new and learning from a different industry and social class...
I came back to Italy in 2010 and started working for a University of Design called IED: I recruited students in Latin America, especially Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Chile, Panama, Costa Rica ,...
I also fell in love with somebody in Venice and ended up living there four years.
After a painful breakup and being fired from work I went through a huge transformation and went to India where I studied with my yoga teacher Yogrishi Vishvketu and lived in India for more than a year.
Now I'm a full time yoga teacher...

I love reading, watching movies and going to the theatre (especially for comedies and ballet)..
In Argentina I started yoga and I loved it ... I kept on practicing in Sydney (Yoga by the Sea) and here in Venice at Energy Darshan.
I've always been taking contemporary dance classes since I was 8 but never continuously.
I did surf in Australia! It was fun but I'd be always full of bruises all over my body :-)
I like being healthy and eating healthy. After a kidney infection I almost completely stopped drinking: I love red wine and I think one glass everyday doesn't hurt you that much but I keep it for special occasions anyway... I'm not one of those people that thinks you can't have fun without drinking though...
I love eating and cooking... and trying different food from different countries - not like most Italian that when travelling ask for Italian food :-S

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe diem! You never know what's gonna happen tomorrow!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

...mmm... I don't really know... by hosting and meeting other couch surfers when I travel myself?

I had people staying over from France, Italy, Russia, England ... It's a great opportunity to meet interesting people, share stories and learn new things, cultures and languages.

Interests

Foreign languages and cultures, travelling, photography and photojournalism, music, movies, dubbing and subtitling, arts, yoga, dance, reading,

• arts
• writing
• books
• design
• photography
• dancing
• ballet dancing
• dining
• italian food
• cooking
• wine
• red wine
• coffee
• yoga
• drinking
• gardening
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• backpacking
• swimming
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Pomodori Verdi Fritti
E.T.
La Spada nella Roccia
The Dead Poets Society
A Beautiful Mind
The Gladiator
Billy Elliot
Amelie
Lost in Translation

Books:
Crime and Punishment
Shadows of the Wind
Sons and Lovers
Wuthering Heights
The Catcher in the Rye
Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon
Due di Due
The Power of Now
Il buio oltre la siepe
Gjamilija
Neve

Music:
Classical, Jazz, Blues,
Beatles
John Lennon
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Brad Mehldau
Francesco Cerasi
Ben Harper
Xavier Rudd
Mum
Sigur Ros
Michael Nyman
Philip Glass
Simon & Garfunkel
Sade
Tiromancino
Paolo Conte
Eddie Vedder
Death Cab for Cutie
Jimmy Eat World
Five for Fighting
Bloc Party
The Postal Service
Zemfira
Soundtracks from OC, Dawson's Creek, Gladiator, American Beauty, Lost in Translation, Amelie, Into the Wild, ...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I can't think of any specific one... 2008 has been one of the best year of my life: first backpacking in Argentina where I met the most amazing people. Probably the most beautiful thing I did when there was swimming in a glacier lake and trekking up to El Fitz Roy (El Chalten)..
Then going to India was the most amazing heart opening experience for me.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you Yoga, Chanting Mantras, Italian, Russian, Spanish... I can give you suggestions and directions for the countries I've been living in...
I can suggest you which is a good coffee and which is not :-)
Don't ask me suggestions about love relationships: I'm a disaster myself :-)
I wish someone could share with me his knowledge about photography as I wanna start soon with a good camera... that could be my Christmas present...
And if someone could teach me Japanes that would be great...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Yoga
Kirtan
Food
Stories
Books
Films

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, India, Italy, Russian Federation, United Kingdom

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