CURRENT MISSION

Finish my doctoral thesis! On Maori and Samoan literatures written in English. And accomplish my RTW trip! DONE I want more ;)

ABOUT ME

Easy going, eager to know other people and cultures. Love traveling, cinema, literature and languages! Also music (ethnic, world, Celtic... new age, dream, vocal trance). I have had the opportunity of traveling around the world and the more you see the more you realize how much is there to discover! After living in Aotearoa-New Zealand for a while (where I discovered the wonderful world of CS) I am now based between Barcelona (for work) and my home town, Tarragona (close to Barcelona)... whenever I'm not travelling!

PHILOSOPHY

To discover the impossible you have to step forward from the possible...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Intercultural studies is my field ;) and I am eager to let you know my place in exchange of your experiences around the world.
I am developing a project with pictures of all the CSurfers I am meeting and my plan is to create a webpage with all the trips and how good CS has been so far: it has definitely changed my way of traveling and even of perceiving life!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Well I have surfed some couches by now and they have been great experiences so far! I have hosted as well even previous to my discovering of CS: I invited a pair of Canadians when they lost their last train from Tarragona to Barcelona and the experience was excellent(my Japanese friend was also at home so we had great fun together going to the beach and cooking).

Interests

Photography, travel, cooking, languages, indigenous cultures.

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Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Celtic, chill out; dance, vocal trance; pop-rock
Literature: Postcolonial, indigenous literatures
Film: Stand by me
Book: La sonambula en la ciudad laberinto, Sophie's World

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Paragliding in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
-Bungy jumping in Kawaru Bridge, New Zealand
-Snorkling in the Pacific (Mana island-Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Hawai'i)
-Climbing Mt Fuji in Japan at night for sunrise view and joining Mochan's crazy crew! A MUST!
-Explore Angkor Wat temples and get soaked in Cambodian waterfalls after a scooter trip
-Rock sliding in Samoa
-Diving with the turtles in Hawai'i
-TV travel reporting in Cook Islands, France, Andorra, Spain, Portugal...
-Mushing on a husky-led sledge in Andorra
-Kayaking and zip-lining in Nicaragua
-Volcano trekking in Guatemala
-Sleeping on a bamboo boat in Thailand
-Buying our tickets for the night train from St Petersburg to Moscow with my friend Laura (a whole adventure!)
-Be amazed at desert mirages on my way to Abu Simbel, and read hieroglyphs along the Nile until the pyramids in Cairo, Egypt
-Beach bumping with friends in Puerto Rico
-Swimming with dolphins in Malta
-Reach the hot waters of Santorni volcano crater and dancing in Mykonos summer night, Greece
-See the lights show in Avatar-esque Gardens in the Bay of Singapore
-Use the Monte Toboggan Rides in Madeira Island, Portugal
-Smell stinky tofu in Taiwan....>_< haha
-Find my way in foggy San Marino
-Improvise a short film on a deserted train station in Belgium
-Spend a night with the Berbers in the Sahara desert and have tea at dawn on a dune next to the camels
-Walking over frozen Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada
-Have a romance in Paris, France
-Help in an animal refuge in Key Caulker, Belize
-Cooperate with a schooling NGO project and participate in the local festivals in Nepal
-Hiking in the Himalayas
-Swimming under the stars in India... (with flying glueworms) and morning ioga lesson with the sunrise...and going to the cinema in Agra, during Monsoons: what an experience!
-Cross the Arctic Circle on a cruise and paint our noses in blue
-Boat riding the Iguazu Falls in Brazil-Argentina
-Participate on a float parade in New Orleans, US
-Birdwatching in Faroe Islands
-Crossing borders and swim in Agya Napa in Cyprus
-Geiser and whale spotting in Iceland and swim in the Blue Lagoon
-Retrieve my glasses from a naughty monkey in the Batu Caves, Malaysia
-Defy the winds over the Cliffs of Moher, Ireland
-Feeling the adventure inside me on my first solo trip in Hungary
-Bargaining in Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt
-"Suffer" the Stendhal syndrome in Florence and 'revive' Death in Venice novel in Venice, Italy
-Survive a passport-torn-apart in Australian customs
-Visit Macedonia and Albania and finding unexpected picturesque villages in Kosovo
-Carnival chasing around the world: from Brasil to Tenerife (Canary Islands)...
-Partying in Barcelona
-Passar les festes de Sant Magí i Santa Tecla a Tarragona!

Teach, Learn, Share

Languages... I'd love to learn at least 4 words in yours... Cooking Spanish food. Being a reporter!
UPDATE: I'd like to give you a present, I've got in mind a CS PORTRAIT PROJECT: take you a picture doing something you feel identified with in an artistic way.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Latvia, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Samoa, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Brazil, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Spain, United Kingdom

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