CURRENT MISSION

Simple... enjoy life!

ABOUT ME

It is difficult for me to try and describe myself. I love, love, love to travel because I love to connect with people from different cultures. If I cannot connect because of language differences, I will try to connect through music, pictures or just smiles. I absolutely love food, I am told I cook very well. I play the ukulele, piano, drums, and I sing. I sing a lot. My friends will use me as their radio. I adore music (jazz, latin, reggae, alternative, anything really) and movies (art house, classics, experimental, independent). I study international affairs and cinema at my University, so I am always fascinated by the ways of others. I try to see the world as a whole, approach situations with a expansive perspective. I am full of energy and a wide-eyed excitement, thus I am always ready to take on any adventure. I hope you may get to know me, so I can try and get to know you. Mad love, peace and, remember, ENJOY LIFE!

PHILOSOPHY

Carpe Diam. Never hold back. I try just to be open with everyone. And I try to love everything and everyone. I figure, we only have one life to live so I might as well go all out.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am a part of the couch surfing community because I love to meet new people from different places. I love hosting people, because I enjoy showing them around and introducing them to my home and helping them to see my cities through my eyes. I hope when someone hosts me, they can show me their home with the same happiness I see.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted a number of couch surfers both in California and in Boston. Not all of them I met on couchsurfing.org, but it always works out. I have made some of very good friends doing this and hope to continue!

Interests

Food
Film
Music
Cooking Food
Photography
International Politics
Philosophy
Eating Food
Poetry
Culture
Ethnic Food
Ukulele

• arts
• culture
• humanities
• poetry
• singing
• photography
• documentaries
• tango
• dining
• cooking
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• piano
• drums
• surfing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies (The Fall by Tarsem Singh, The Passion of Joan of Arc by

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Teaching jazz to orphans in Africa
Studying mental health crisis in Bali, Indonesia
My parents moved my family to Brazil to work with the youth-at-risk population in Curitiba
Organizing a Teach-In inside a branch of Bank of America in Boston
Singing with an amazing traveling musician for an Italian documentary in Lyon, France
Meeting Noam Chomsky with our German Couchsurfers
Learning how to Tango in Lisboa, Portugal
Cooking 23 hours to make a Tapas-Style thanksgiving for our Swedish couchsurfers

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to cook delicious simple (or complicated) food
I can teach you how to play the ukulele or maybe how to keep a beat
When I was in Africa, I volunteered at an orphanage teaching the kids to sing Jazz
I can show you how to have crazy fun
There some other stuff, but I let you figure that out later...

Countries I’ve Visited

France, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Portugal, United States