CURRENT MISSION

more balance

ABOUT ME

Quiet, generous, curious, patient, rational

to be continued...

PHILOSOPHY

To reach balance and to keep it!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted in April 2008:
Cécile Plouffe (Canada)
William Guyver and Robert La Manna (USA)
Paweł Grzybowski (Poland)
Denis Mysenko (Russia)
Maarja Rooplik and her friend Kärt (Estonia)
Ethan Mandel (USA)

Hosted in June 2008:
FURORE&BENAMSEE (Germany)
Daniel Martinez (Argentina)
Agnieszka Bolesta and Lucasz (Poland)

Hosted in July 2008:
Alexey Bakhtov (Russia)
Liga Ligate and her friend Jolanta (Latvia)

Hosted in August 2008:
Cláudio & Elke (Portugal and Belgium)
Tatiana Tochilina (Russia)
Sally (USA) and Jorge (Spain)
Manuela Vervloet and Elisa Denovaro (Brazil)
Siegfried and Verena (Austria)

Hosted in September 2008:
Maja Kozlowska (Poland)
Magda and Emi (Poland)
Nicole and Darrin (Canada)
Marianne, Lara and Yumi (Switzerland)

Hosted between September-October 2008:
Nathalie and Michel (Canada)

Hosted in October 2008:
Luke Proctor and John McCarthy (Eire)
Dan Farchione (USA)
Kasha Benson and Nick Greenfield (Australia)

Hosted in November 2008:
Nicole, Peter and Shanice (Australia)
Al1aroundtheworld (World!)
Sergio Burgos and Stephanie Lim (USA)
Kalu Lima and Rosana (Brazil)

Hosted in January 2009:
Greta Jurguyte (Lithuania)
Marie Laveuax (Italy)

Hosted in February 2009:
Juliana Ferreira (Brazil)
Jürgen Feuersenger (Germany)

Surfed in June 2008:
Anne-Cecile (France)

Interests

Books, music, nature, mountains, sea, city parks, TaiJi

• books
• beauty
• music
• parks
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
The wizard of Oz, Contact, The silence of the lambs,
One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Modern times, Enchanted April, In the bleak mid-winter, The man with the golden arm, The woman who lived twice, The Blues Brothers, all Stanley Kubrick, Paris Texas,
etc....

Music:
The Who, REM, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Norah Jones, Ben Harper, The Verve, Radiohead, Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner, Mozart, Mahler, Mussorgsky
generally Rock (true good old rock!), Jazz, Classical Music
NEVER House music or stuff like that!

Books:
Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Italo Svevo, Alan Bennet, Paul Auster, Arto Paasilinna, Jean-Claude Izzo, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Deepak Chopra, Rudiger Dahlke and Thorwald Dethlefsen,
Elias Canetti (especially The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood)
English romantic poets; Sylvia Plath, Marina Tsvetayeva, The Little Prince, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, books about finance (yes!) etc..

to be continued...

Teach, Learn, Share

I wanna learn Mandarin!

I can teach Italian!
(and some genoese vernacular words)

I like to share the beauty of nature

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States

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