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Overview

  • 15 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified), English
  • 45, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • IT Solutions Architect
  • No education listed
  • From Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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About Me

Now Living in Madrid - Spain

First of all, I must say I’m a mix between a black sheep and a chameleon. A black sheep with honor and values and a chameleon to adapt and adopt. Always thinking appearances deceive so I don’t like prejudge but I like observe and learn, but trying don’t be a flock sheep ;)

I like think and doing Business, nature, cook,, pick mushrooms, bike, swim, dream the future, listen, change. And a few things more.

Actually, I have a mon-fri IT job, working as Enterprise Architect and IT Solutions Architect which I love although sometimes they don’t listen ehehe

I like to learn always new things. That is my fuel. Not only about Business and IT ehehe.
I am professional open-mind ;) and i living always in a entrepeneur life.

I have friends in Mexico, China, Phillipines, France, UK, Brazil and Spain. I like to have more friends from differents countries.

Little by little i go to edit and full fill my profile. Now a few things about me please read below if you have more curiosity about me

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love the personal part of Couchsurfers. i feel they are wonderful people to discover and i like to get it everyday. CS help on this so much. And i feel best way to know places, people and cultures is something like that, CS.

My targets currently now are:
- Win more time through investments
- Built some simple rural small house
- Improve my english
- Improve my chinese
- Learn to cook chinese food (never try yet!)

Interests

Slow life, Cook, Nature, IT, Business, Snowboard (basic level), Linux, and “No series” instead YouTube learnings

Music, Movies, and Books

Music, all: Jazz, blues, garage, rock n roll, some heavy spanish songs ("Los suaves"), Celtic music too: for example great and mythic spanish group Celtas Cortos

Books, (sincerely i dont read so much just now, i like more the real life. But i pretend read in the future when i am old ;) maybe)

Movies
Stand by me
Titanic
FightClub
Million Dollar Baby
Forrest Gump (run, forrest, run)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the thing when I learned more was when I did volunteer for Homeless people on Sundays in Madrid, offering them a coffee and a conversation.

- I built several business most of them works very well but doesn’t grow as escalation is the real Business challenge and due I was jumped to another better business each time ;)

When i am child:

- Be a Delivery Boy. I mean making different family tasks, that was my best work experience ever ;), managing times, budget, learning negotiate skills, …

- multiple child adventures ehehe but one of them I let off free a bird in a subway station ;) when show it my neighbour! This bird i catched in the morning when it touch my window amazing! When child always i dreaming to catch birds in street and sometimes i get it. And later i like to let off free, always. But this chance it come to my window , with this I learnt chances always come but you must be prepared and ready to act and catch it

When i am young:
- 2 Interrails europe travels in my back with my 4 teammates that time. First 2 and half months and second 1 month. So Amazing and incredible!

- Travel and living in Phillipines. It was a wonderful experience.

- I built the 7th world coworking space called Garage30 in 2004 in Madrid. So i was bankrupt with this because i was so pioneer and this moment the people didn't think in different ways yet... (now yes), you know to collaborate with others, to share efforts.... But im happy to get expand the movement in Spain (trying 3 business models: 1- Own spaces, 2 - Third part spaces with emtpy real states owners, and 3- companies free space to share) and i learn a lot of things in the way. Coworking is a movement with similar things with couchsurfing but to work in shared offices and mainly to share knowledges & efforts with others. Sure you know it. It is deployed in all countries now.

When i am old: ... (not yet ;) )

Teach, Learn, Share

Share my knowledge and my time(when is possible) to show Madrid and another cool cities in Spain.

Show to my guests some specials places in Madrid, thats places when is out the tourist route but thats places amazing to know and guest will never forget.

Nice conversation about anything. I like listen and learn.

To share and learn more in: Cook, Business, Enterprise Architecture, IT Solutions Architecture

What I Can Share with Hosts

Have a friend in Spain

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Brazil, China, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Philippines, Spain

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