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  • 30 references 15 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Japanese, Polish, Spanish; learning German, Portuguese, Tibetan Standard, Tibetan, Central, Yiddish
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • teacher
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About Me

no soy de aquí ni soy de allá
no tengo edad, ni porvenir
ser feliz es mi color de identidad

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like to travel and see the countries I'm visiting through their citizens' eyes.

Interests

1. music 2. books 3. movies

Really interested in buddhism. Esspecially zen, Japanese and Tibetan vajrayana.

skateboarding, different cultures, languages, cooking, eating, baking, food tourism, history , sociology, religions, mithology, symbolism, anthropology, shamanism, tribal cultures, art, comic books/graphic novels, dance, butoh, photography, drawing, hikking.

  • arts
  • culture
  • books
  • cooking
  • baking
  • vegetarian
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • comics
  • anime
  • movies
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • camping
  • snowboarding
  • skateboarding
  • anthropology
  • teaching
  • history
  • languages
  • philosophy
  • psychology
  • religion
  • science
  • sociology
  • mountains
  • manga
  • buddhism
  • longboarding
  • outdoors
  • asia
  • japanese culture
  • hikking
  • butoh
  • doing nothing
  • tibetan buddhism
  • foodtourism
  • graphicnovels

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES:

9 Souls
Addams Family
Akira
Ame Agaru
Amelie
Amores perros
Aoi Haru
Ashes and Snow
Baraka
Beetlejuice
Blade Runner
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Chinese Box
Chocolate
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dolls
Easy Rider
English Patient
Fallen Angels
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Ghost in the Shell
Hero
Hotaru no Haka
House of Flying Daggers
Indochine
Interview with vampire
L'amante
La Reine Margot
Le Grand Bleu
Le Pacte des Loups
Little Buddha
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Mononoke Hime
Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Eva
Ran
Rashomon
Samsara
Seppuku
Shichinin no samurai
The Crow
The Dreamers
The Hunger
The Last of the Mohicans
The Man Who Cried
The Piano
Tonari no Totoro
Trois couleurs: Bleu
Velvet Goldmine
Y tu mama tambien

TV series:

Rick and Morty, American Horror Story, Carnivale, Parks and Recreation, Monty Python, Twin Peaks

(Rick and Morty is Life)

Film Directors:

Akira Kurosawa
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Bernardo Bertolucci
Hideaki Anno
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Hayao Miyazaki
Kim Ki-duk
Stanley Kubrick
Takeshi Kitano
Werner Herzog
Wong Kar Wai

I really love Japanese, French, Chinese and American movies and everything by Wong Kar Wai, Kurosawa or Bertolucci and everything where Eva Green appears

Jodorowsky is mi padre cosmico. SIEMPRE.

MUSIC:

rock, metal, doom, gothic, sludge, grunge, blues, progresive rock, postrock, classic rock, post-punk, space rock, jazz, Latino , music from the 70's, alternative, indie, industrial, fusion, ethno, classical, soundtracks, flamenco, sad Japanese music from the 70's. Love making stupid playlists to do things while listening.

There are hundreds of my fav musicians. But I really love David Bowie, Lana del Rey, everything by Mike Patton, Sepultura, Tool, Type O Negative, Dead Can Dance. Currently so in love with Rosalia's and Mon Laferte's music.

BOOKS:

Dharma, Eastern philosophy, Western philosophy, reportage, scientific books, anthropology, Japanese literature, Latinoamerican literature, Russian literature, history, history of religions

Marguerite Duras, Herman Hesse, Banana Yoshimoto and Gabriel García Márquez and their:
L'amant, Steppenwolf, Kitchen, Cien años de soledad

Mircea Eliade, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Carl Gustav Jung

Eduardo Galeano's 'Las venas abiertas de América Latina' cambió mi vida

Polish reportages by Artur Domosławski and Ryszard Kapuściński . I really love 'Latin American Fever' by Domosławski.

I have a special place in my heart for Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind Beginner's Mind

also love Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Mark Twain, Natsume Souseki, Mario Varga Llosa, Aldous Huxley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Nabokov, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Yasunari Kawabata, Milan Kundera

I'm super fan of Podcasts; Dział Zagraniczny by Maciek Okraszewski and I also like Duncan Trussell Familly Hour

Teach, Learn, Share

I can help you with Polish, English, Japanese and Classical Tibetan, maybe a little with Tibetan Caligraphy.

cooking, baking and eating :D

and I'm a really good skateboard teacher :D

What I Can Share with Hosts

food, skills, conversations

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Poland, Spain

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