A Brazilian doing one exchange in Europe. I'm a student of mechanical engineering and will be one year in belgium in order to learn French and improve my studys. I was born in Brazil and grew up in a small town in the state of Minas Gerais next to Belo Horizonte. Son of a history teacher I am a subject enthusiast, I love learning the stories and culture of new people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to take the experience of the exchange to meet the Europe but not as a regular tourist. I want to take the opportunity of this site to meet local people and have a real experience with the culture of where I am visiting.

Interests

• photography
• movies
• music
• engineering
• history
• philosophy
• tourism
• art
• belgian beer
• pop culture
• brazilian music
• belgian chocolate

Music, Movies, and Books

Is hard to choose this kind of thing, they change too much over time, but some deserve a special position.

For music, one of my favourite is A Day In The Life from The beetles. Also deserve to be mentioned some songs that had a special place in my life such as: Whish You Were Here (I'm a big Pink Floyd's fan); Suit Nº1 to cello by Bach (I started learning cello last year because of this music); Habits (Tove lo); Vivir Mi Vida (Marc Anthony) and to represent Brazilian's music I will choose Preciso Me Encontrar from Cartola (I love a lot of Brazilian musics but unfortunately I do not have room for all here).

I am a great lover of fantasy and science fiction and I can cite as my favourite books some classics from this genres as: The Lord of the Rings (J. R. R. Tolkien); A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess); The Foundation series (Isaac Asimov); The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) and a lot of others. I'm also a big fan of more recent novels such as A Song of Ice and Fire (George R. R. Martin) and The Kingkiller Chronicle (Patrick Rothfuss).

To name some nonfiction books I would like to mention Freakonomics (Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt); the Prince (Machiavelli) and Farewell by Carlos Drummond (one of the greatest Brazilian poets).

And to finish, my favourites movies are: Fight Club; Forrest Gump; Cidade de Deus (a great Brazilian movie); La vita è bella; American Beauty; Inside Out and O Menino e o Mundo (Brazilian animation that indicated to the Oscar in 2016).

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Brazil