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Overview

  • 11 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish; learning Portuguese
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • No occupation listed
  • degree in International relations and human rights
  • From Turin
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Discover economy of solidarity and social movements in Latin America

ABOUT ME

Even if I usually have problems to answer to this kind of questions I'll try.
I think I'm curious, spontaneous and reflexive girl.. I like reading, chatting with my friends, cooking, eating good food, travelling, laughing, learning, growing up and getting in touch with people. If I have to imagine myself and my life in ten years I really have no idea, but everywhere, anywhere I hope that there will be loud, people that I love around, the rest is really not important.
I always need to improve myself with new defies.
I'm used to a life in community, I lived with other students for four years in a very big flat changing at least 20 roommates. This experience gave me plenty of stories to tell and taught me a lot...

PHILOSOPHY

always look at the bright side of life

Stay human

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I hosted people in Turin and Brussels and I was hosted in my very first period in Brussels

Interests

Reading, writing, cooking, eating good food, cinema, travelling, politics

  • writing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • politics
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: the committments, dogma, pane e tulipani, saving Grace, Il postino, Seven, Fight Club, Agora, The Others, Gran Torino, Le fate ignoranti, Pulp Fiction, Memento
Telefilms: friends, scrubs, how I met your mother, the big bang theory, game of thrones
Music: Rock, Rock Blues (Jack Johnson, Ben Harper) jazz manouche, italian cantautori (De Gregori, De Andrè, Rino Gaetano, Guccini), electro swing, but also Serj Tankian, Gogol Bordello,
Books: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Jonathan Safran Foer), The Master and Margarita (Bulgakov), Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (Jorge Amado), Q (Luther Blisset)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Counting the stars in a lost beach in Tunisia,
A lot of amazing nights with my friends in Brussels
leave my job, pack my stuff and leave for South America

Teach, Learn, Share

I think that the exchange between people is the thing that can make them grow up most.
Me.. I can teach all the signs that Italian people do while they speak (I spent a lot of time doing that with my Quebec friends in Tunis), cooking (pizza, pasta, lasagne), something about our catastrophic political situation...
I'm generally curious to know everything about anything.. maybe not too technical things, but everything is related to people, societies, philosophy and so on.. YES!defentely!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, France

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