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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
TRAMPS LIKE US WERE BORN TO RUN
ABOUT ME
Right now I'm attempting to be an itinerant teacher.
My partner and I run a volunteer teaching project in conjunction with an extremely remote indigenous community in the middle of the Amazon rainforest: www.facebook.com/proyectosuwa
I write, sometimes. Here are some examples:
poetry: http://alanzapata.tumblr.com/
travelogue: http://esecaiman.wordpress.com/
I also enjoy thinking, reading, drinking, speaking Spanish, cycling, loud music.
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Me gusta la politica (pensar en ella y - por supuesto - cambiarla), andar en bici, trabajar en la huerta (en serio!), escribir, leer, tomar, escuchar a musica escandalosa, practicar espanol, et cetera.
PHILOSOPHY
I wouldn't attempt to summarise it neatly. I like to think it's partially a work in progress, and partially an ongoing practice.
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No puedo resumirla en un espacio tan corto. Me gusta creer que es una mezcla, una obra en proceso, una práctica continua.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Is there a CS spirit? I dunno, but I seem to end up defending it.
Right now I'm travelling a lot for work, mostly through Europe, so you may arrive at this profile cos I've posted in your city looking for something fun and interesting to do.
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Todo el tiempo promuevo este sitio web y abro la puerta a el quien lo quiera. Es verdad que existe un espíritu de CS? Porque me encuentro defendiendolo siempre.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
I travelled a shitload through Mexico and so many people (both off here and Hospitality Club) helped me out. At times it almost felt like too much but that's cos of my British upbringing leaving me cold and distrusting. I also put up some people in Mexico City. My first guest stayed almost 2 weeks which I guess can only be a good thing.
London's a tricky one to host in, the distances are large, the prices are high and you tend to spend the first few days calming down people who had arrived expecting First World perfection, the hyperreal flipside to the all the problems they were sick of in Latin America. Yet in London, there's also crime, poverty and depression. I'm not sure how many people really enjoyed it and how many just found themselves sucked into the rather shitty, manipulative, wallet-sucking tourist trail round the city centre. Ah well.
I then found somewhere to live and made some good friends via CS in the incredibly difficult and paranoid environment of Caracas before using it to travel around Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, and other countries.
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Pues viajé mucho por México y tanta pero tanta gente - además de aqui por Hospitality Club - me dió el paro, hasta que a veces se me hacía que me dieran demasiado! También hospedé a alguna gente en el DF. Mi primera huésped se quedó casi 2 semanas, entonces supongo que eso quiera decir que soy buen anfiltrón!
Luego en Londres, hospedé a alguna gente pero fue medio difícil a veces. O sea, llegaron varias personas que habían anticipado la perfección primermundista, el mero contrario de lo que les fastidían en América Latina. Pero en Londres también hay cola, delicuencia, y pobreza. Todavía no se muy bien de cuanta gente se lo pasara bien conmigo, en cambio de la cual se encontrara en el rol turístico ahí - que es medio manipulador - gastando demasiados reales por el centro de la ciudad.
Luego, conseguí en donde vivir y unos amigos a través del CS en el entorno complicado y paranoíco de Caracas y lo utilice para viajar por Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador y otras partes..
Interests
Revelatory experiences, creating situations, chaos, long conversations, loud music
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Experiencias reveladas, la creación de situaciones, el desmadre, pláticas interminables, música escándolosa
- poetry
- environment
- running
- drinking
- clubbing
- reading
- traveling
- music
- cycling
- teaching
- volunteering
Music, Movies, and Books
PRIMARILY BUT NOT SOLELY / PRIMARIO PERO NO UNICAMENTE: hip hop, African blues, punk rock, rock n roll, anything that can and has briefly occupied the musical vanguard; David Lynch, Sergio Leone, Glauber Rocha, Sergei Eistenstein, Latin American cinema, spaghetti westerns; Raoul Vaneigem, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, William S Burroughs, Guy Debord, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Seen more than done.
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He visto más de lo que he hecho.
Teach, Learn, Share
I'm an English teacher by profession but I'm reluctant to 'teach' people outside of a class - it's a bit of a busman's holiday (as we say in the UK)!: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busman%27s_Holiday I do, however, enjoy the language swap - we're all teachers AND students there!
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Soy profesor de ingles pero no me dan muchas ganas de 'ensenar' el idioma afuera de la clase. Sin embargo, el intercambio de idiomas si me gusta - seremos todos profesores y estudiantes al mismo tiempo!
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mali, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, United Kingdom, Venezuela