Vaccinated + booster!

Hi guys, I'm a 33 year old lawyer tired of laws. I'm a very sociable person with a great number of interests. I am obsessed with films, love reading novels and drinking beer. Also, I'm sick for tattoos and I'm always thinking of inking, wherever I go.

Yes, I know; a lawyer tired of laws and covered in tattoos? How can this be possible?

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Well, it was when I wrote this 5 years ago, and I used to find myself in this daily contradiction between what I'd studied and what I wanted to do with my life, which, of course, was touring the world. The contradiction lasted two years, until I finally made it!

I went out to see the world in March 2017, backpacked and volunteered through Europe and Asia. Made amazing friends from multiple places, religions and backgrounds. Saw breathtaking landscapes and tried the most diverse foods you can imagine. Fuck, what a ride it was! Almost two years of experiences in the bag, best decision I've ever made. However, we can't just go travel around forever, right? Money's always an issue. What happened? I became an ESL Teacher in Vietnam for almost two years! Got a job, a work permit and managed to save money again to do what I love...Travel the world!

However, like everybody else, COVID hit me right in the face, although in my case it was far away from home: volunteering in North India. It was madness. No one knew anything about the virus; airports and trains were shut down and suddenly we couldn't get out of the country nor buy food at the local market. After several weeks of tv interviews and newspaper reports we managed to get a repatriation flight from our government. So now, after two years of pandemic life (and a 9-month comeback to the lawyering world, which SUCKED by the way), I'm once again packing my bag and hitting the road. The hype is real!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I'm here because I want to see as much countries/cities/towns as I can and get to know as many people as I have the chance to. I'm thrilled with the possibility that Couchsurfing offers, I mean, exchanging culture and experiences with people from all over the world for me is just unbelievable. Crushing at places is also incredible (saving up money always is!), but for me the country is the people you meet and this platform gives me that possibility in a silver plate.

In my travels I've discovered so many - secret - places and had so many local adventures just following the advice of CS members that I can honestly say this is the best thing that has ever happened to traveling -- although now they set up a pay-wall which goes against everything this community stands for, but whatever. I'm forever grateful of the experiences CS has provided me and I'll continue to discover the world and connecting with people using this tool.

Interests

I love photography! Packing my two prime lenses everywhere, let's go out an shoot!?

• writing
• books
• photography
• tattoos
• cooking
• beer
• walking
• music
• hiking
• camping
• table tennis
• languages
• hitchhiking
• volunteering
• solo travel
• adventure travel
• budget travel
• films
• football
• trekking
• teaching english

Music, Movies, and Books

I listen to EVERYTHING. Through my playlist you can literally get a bit of Britney Spears before shuffling to Metallica, passing through Zeppelin, Shakira, Bowie, Bad Bunny and/or Bob Marley. Besides "death metal" I don't think there's any music I dislike.

On the other hand, Movies. This is my life. When I was a teenager I started this infinite journey that is the world of Cinema. Year after year I've been discovering the masters of filmmaking from the past century as well as the ones of the present one. I'm currently doing a two-year online course on Film Appreciation and is one of the best decisions I've made in a while! I put a morning film every day before work and I try to catch up with my insanely long watchlist at night, and because I'm packing my two hard drives with an illegal yet ridiculous amount of movies I always have something to watch. Let's talk film!

You can find me geeking on movies here: https://letterboxd.com/NvargasCamus/

Last but not least, BOOKS. Yes, my other passion. Personal favorite authors? Haruki Murakami, Frank Herbert, Arthur C. Clarke, Khaled Hosseini, George Orwell, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Charles Bukowski, Ken Follet, Isaac Asimov, Jeffrey Archer, Santiago Posteguillo, John Steinbeck, and so on!

Personal favorite novels?
- 1984, George Orwell
- Kafka in the Shore, Haruki Murakami
- Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevski
- Bonus track: East of Eden, Steinbeck

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I quit my job as a lawyer in a firm in Chile after two years of law-practice in 2017. Did it again in 2022! Fuck bosses and offices hahaha.

Volunteering/building/teaching in a small village on the top of a Nepali mountain for 75 days in 2018!

Hitchhiking all of Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran. It is, by far, one of the best experiences of my life. Sharing a couple of kilometres with people that really wants to help you, even though the language is not the same. Kindness in its true form.

Read 51 books in a year!

Teaching English in Vietnam and actually enjoying my job inside a classroom. I'll be back soon!

Living around the world for three years! Getting to know different cultures, learning different languages and experiencing life with an open mind.

Finally: appearing live on every single TV channel in Chile in order to get a rescue plane for all 267 Chileans stranded in Asia when COVID hit. Wrote a piece for a Newspaper and when it went viral I was suddenly the face of all of us. For several weeks it became an emotionally and physically exhausting responsibility, but the honest gratitude I got from everyone on the 56 hour flight back made it totally worth it!

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach you some Spanish language and Chilean recipes!

Share experiences, I've got a couple of stories.

Learn everything and anything you want to share.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Experiences, a massive film collection, moving library for your Kindle, amazing cooking skills, conversation over some beers, expertly rolled cigarettes and stress less laughter.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Argentina, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Serbia, Viet Nam