CURRENT MISSION

I believe I am in a constant journey to know myself and I find travelling the best to do so.

ABOUT ME

I'm a people´s person. Ive been lucky and had the chance to travel quite a lot, both for pleasure and work, so Im usually trying to get off the beaten track. That way I can get an insight on other people lives and habits, and discover that, while we re all different, when taken just as humans, we are all very similar as well. I guess this has a lot to do with the eagerness I have for traveling. Not only to get to know other cultures and and meet new people, but also as part of my journey towards myself.
But to give you a hint of who i am, I'll describe myself as good as I can. While being a person very much focused on my friendships and personal relationships, i have also a huge hunger to discover the world and see how other realities and lives so different from mine exist. These 2 sidesvof me, many time represent a contradiction and big confusion in terms of where I want to be/live/do. I've lived all my life until I was 29 years old in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I have my family, most of my friends and experiences. In my early age Ive travelled, mainly within Argentina and border countries, such as Brazil, Bolivia and Peru (not border but nearby). At the age of 29, after big changes in my life, I won a scholarship to study in London and I moved there full of fears but happy to achieve my longstanding dream of living abroad for a while.
My London experience changed my life, it cracked my head, gave me friends and family from all over the world (my London family) and different perspectives of life. At the same time it was not an easy experience. After finishing my Masters, life become more serious and stressed when I started working and trying to figure it out a career out of my new studies. I guess I cannot complain cos I got a very good job in my field in a very prestigious research institution but it also meant to work in a very competitive environment, in another language and dealing with a different set of mind (imagine a messy Argentinean working among very efficient and structured English environment!!!). I had a bit of a breakdown due to stress and after that I decided that there is just one life to waste being depressed so here I am. My more structured friends think I am crazy but Im just trying to take off me those "mandates" on how we are supposed to live our lives. I definitely dont feel like keep on fulfilling society expectations.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I cannot offer my couch right now. However, I'm very interested in meeting people from the places I'm visiting and exchange experiences and stories.
Would be great for me to meet local people and brake the ice that involves being a tourist. As for me, I can contribute by sharing my own experiences and culture with others.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Same year ago a friend told me about couch surfing. She told me: "this is your thing", and she might be right! I've been somehow participating unofficially on this kind of trend since I was 18 and I did my first trip on my own around Europe. My first couch surfing occurred on the 31st of December when, out of my mind, i decided to leave Amsterdam on the 31st December to arrive in Berlin at 8pm. My face of desperation might have been impressive since a German girl approached me to offer me help and finally I ended up staying at her place, playing jenga and cards with her friends trying to communicate with what was a very poor English at that time. Along the years, I've also been received in brazil by a family who allowed us to sleep on their floor for couple of days, I've been sleeping in couches in Barcelona, Madrid, Sevilla, Stockholm and Greece, and some places I might be forgetting now. I live with families I met on the journey in Africa: In Rwanda, Tanzania, Zanzibar I met people and stayed at their places.

I became very grateful and aware of how one can help someone, and that comes back to you in the form of other people helping you. Of course couch surfing didn't exist at that time, or at least I didn't know it, so the people I received in my couch were generally people I met while traveling, sometimes friends of friends. were among the ones who stayed in my place, with most of them i'm still in contact!
While living in London we received soooo many people in our couch that we nicknamed our house 'Fairbridge cultutal and Refugee centre'. Being an international house in itself (we were 5 people: Argentinean, Colombian, Greek, North-american and either Japanese/Fisnish/Italian -this room changed a lot), we had uncountable visits.. not only friends, but friends of friends of all kind of nationalities.. which made our house an amazing place!
When I returned to Buenos Aires, I rented a house that follows that same spirit, many people passed through my couch in Bs As, with many of them we are still friends. And that´s the beuty of it

Interests

What I love about traveling is getting to know local people, learn from their culture and their different ways of living and share with them how things are in my country too

• culture
• environment
• partying
• traveling
• socializing
• surfing

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Egypt, El Salvador, France, Germany, India, Italy, Laos, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Peru, Portugal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, United Kingdom