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Overview

  • 9 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish
  • 31, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Student
  • Estudos Literários
  • From Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

I'm currently building an online community for writers, which is showing itself to be an immense effort. Nevertheless, I'm pretty excited about it :D For the past 3 years and a half, I've also been writing my first novel, with still some kms to go.

ABOUT ME

The activity I like the most is discussing different topics and trying to understand them from different points of view. I feel friendship revolves around being able to build something together, and it always starts with building understading of each other's ways of seeing the world and developing ideas together, further moving to trust and care.

I also love hiking in nature, preferably towards a waterfall haha

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour. - William Blake

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I find it pretty amazing to be able to meet people in their daily lives, open to whoever comes, so we can build trust and learn with each other.

All my experiences with couchsurfing, be it as a host or as a surfer, be it in Brazil, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and India, have been deeply enriching and fun.

Interests

Travelling, literature, music, movies, different cultures etc.

  • culture
  • music
  • philosophy
  • cinema
  • literatura
  • psychoanalysis
  • literature,

Music, Movies, and Books

MPB; Rock, Jazz and Classical.
Albert Camus; Fernando Pessoa; Jennifer Egan, Manoel de Barros, Alice Notley, David Mitchell, Mia Couto...
Wes Anderson, Pedro Almodóvar, Polanski.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've published a book of my own, of poetry. It's still being an amazing thing in my life!
Travelled, it's just so good! Getting to know about different people and cultures...

Teach, Learn, Share

Brazilian culture, Mexican culture, Literary thinking :D

I'd like to learn about each culture in this world, but I guess it's impossible, so as many as I'm able to reach.

I love learning languages, it shows a lot of the culture of the native speakers and it feels so good speaking them! It also always teaches me some more about Portuguese language, which is

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good philosophical conversations about life and the world and aesthetics and the human mind.

A good set of ears and great interest on your life stories.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Guatemala, India, Portugal, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

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