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Overview

  • 37 references 22 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German, Spanish
  • 32, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Philosophy, Pianist & Judo fighter
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Learn what you know, teach what I know; travel!

ABOUT ME

Only the human things satisfy me, because there I can find everything, even the eternal.

PHILOSOPHY

Only two question you shall ask yourself: How much truth do I want to know? & How much truth can i handle?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Visited 30 countries (only 13.3% of the world) help me increase this number and teach me about your country.

Interests

Friends, music, movies, traveling, judo, football, meeting new people, reading, learning, teaching, philosophy, languages, Opera, piano, everything!

  • arts
  • literature
  • chinese new year
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • piano
  • opera
  • martial arts
  • soccer
  • history
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Opera, symphony, Bossa Nova, Samba, Zamba, Tango, Cumbia, Ska, any music that reflect, both, a understandability of musical theory and deep meaning (on the other side, party music = anything with rhythmic sounds!)

Philosophy and political theory books.
The Book of disquet by Fernando Pessoa is one of my favourites of literature along side with Dostoevsky's Brother Karamazov and Rayuela by Julio Cortazar.

Waking Life, Baraka, A Clockwork Orange, Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth, The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer, Films of Kenneth Anger, Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920s and '30s, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Rashomon, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, Blue, White, Red, The Elegant Universe, Children of Heaven, Delicatessen, Amelie, Life in the Undergrowth, That Obscure Object of Desire, Band of Outsiders, Belle de Jour, Dr. Strangelove, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, How to Draw a Bunny, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, Harold and Maude, Un Chien Andalou, Chronos, The Bicycle Thief, Visitor Q, Diabolique, Eyes Without a Face, A Scanner Darkly, The City of Lost Children, Phantom Museums: The Short Films of the Quay Brothers, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Man with the Movie Camera, Trainspotting, Metropolis, The Lovers on the Bridge, Little Otik, Nosferatu, The Decalogue, No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex, Volver, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Being John Malkovich, Mon Oncle, The Lives of Others, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Chinese new Year celebration, Chinese great wall, Berlin Bundestag, Postdam Castles and gardens , part of the North Pole and East of Russia.
Shaolin monks, Terracota army. Egiptian piramids, Chernobyl...and the list goes on and on; if you wish to ask me anything specific, go ahead and I'll let you know my thoughts.
The world is a great place to rediscover yourself.

Teach, Learn, Share

Martial arts, music, philosophy, literature, movies, history and everything else that comes along the conversation.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Puerto Rico, Spain

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