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Overview

  • 8 references
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Arabic (Egypt), Arabic (Morocco), French
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Student
  • Nebraska Wesleyan University
  • From El Paso - Juarez
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Learn Arabic, French and as much as I can about the world.

ABOUT ME

Greetings surfers ! Where can I start ? I was born in Texas, raised in Mexico.Traveling is part of my life and I have taken that to the max by learning new languages and traveling around the States and now Europe/North Africa. I am a Senior in college, majoring in Global Studies with an emphasis on development studies.I enjoy French films and long walks on the beach :)

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PHILOSOPHY

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream - Edgar Allen Poe

Interests

-Development studies; women's rights in developing countries, anthropology, foreign policy, economic development, MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region.
-Foreign films; French, Mexican, Spanish, and North African.
-Languages: Currently studying French and Arabic.
-Traveling around the world !
-Gastronomy :)

  • dogs
  • politics
  • movies
  • traveling
  • anthropology
  • teaching
  • languages
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Films; Pulp Fiction, Baraka, La Haine, Pan's Labyrinth, Y Tu Mama Tambien, 007: Casino Royale, Fight Club, The Dark Knight Rises.

Music; Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens, Adelle, The Flaming Lips, Queen, The Beatles, Pink Martini, Pink Floyd, Juanes, Zoe, and The Velvet Underground.

Books: American gods, El Zahir, Bourne Identity, 1001 Nights, The Catcher in the Rye, Everything is Illuminated, Lolita, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Le Petit Prince

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Spoke parsel to a cobra.(Morocco)
-Been parachute in the beach.(Mexico)
-A dude riding with his dog in his motorcycle.(Morocco)
-Drank absinthe the old way, the real stuff ! (France)

Teach, Learn, Share

I have been a Spanish tutor before and I am more than happy to give some Spanish lessons :)

And I am very good on the following topics:
-Development studies; women's rights in developing countries, anthropology, foreign policy, economic development, MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, Latin American politics and structures.

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