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  • 15 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, German, Greek (modern), Italian, Romanian, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Esperanto, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • English teacher
  • University of Regensburg(Germany). German- Spanish studies.
  • From Madrid and Pereira(Colombia)
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ABOUT ME

Hi
Well I´ve always been bad at drescribing myself but here I go...: I´m an open person, I love travelling, and getting to know other cultures, after having met somebody you feel that this person leaves a little of themselves in you , it's really nice to be able to look at life from different points of view. I like to understand the way other people think.

PHILOSOPHY

well, a mosaic of what other people have given me, we are what we experience, material things are nothing if you just dont feel happy, the sense of life is just beeing happy and feeling good, we are in a tought world so let's not make it tougher , wondering about the sense of life is not the answer, the answer is just living, life are this magic moments when you feel something you cannot describe inside you that makes you appreciate that you´re still breathing..., when you are dancing in the middle of strangers, when you´re talking a foreing language and people just accept you.... and you just feel peace inside you.

Well here are some things I´d like to say:
-Love is the best thing in the world, there are different kinds of love,but I respect everybody who loves each other.
- Before judging someone else you have to judge yourself.
- Respect everyone, there are lots of people in the world who may have different opinions, sometimes they don´t share yours, they can be really different, so think about it, let it be.
-Respect animals.
-Drink, smoke, love,get crazy!, enjoy your life as you feel it´s the best for you... but try not to make suffer poeple who love you.
-One smile is the shortest way between two people!!!, so smile as much as you can.
-Trust your feeling...
-If you don´t like someone just ignore him or get away, but try to never resort to violence ....
-Help people who need it, one day they might be the ones who are going to help you.
-Don´t think too much, life makes no sense, the only thing in life that makes sense is living!! carpe diem!
-All human beings are the same, women, men, black, white...nobody is better than you only because of the place they come from.
- We have the great luck to enjoy life, to be able to travel, to eat, to have some money, while other people just starve and have miserable lives...so try to enjoy your life and don't make others have a bad time.
-Enjoy senseless moments, feel it inside, for other people these moments might make no sense...but we are all unique.
-People who are always looking for...never find.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

it´s difficult for me to host cuz I live with my parents so you have more opportunities if you worked on your profile!!!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

After some couch surfing meetings, trips, hosting, I endeed up loving this site¡¡¡

Interests

Languages, I think languages are just magic, you learn some grammar rules and vocabulary and then suddenly you find out that other people open their heart to you,I like travelling, I like filosophy as well, I like to listen to people and being listened, I like to feel that I´m understanding a culture or being part of it(that's why I have learnt so many languages), that´s why I love travelling, for a short time you just feel free from all your prejudices, you are really willing to do things that in your normal life you would not do.

  • animals
  • culture
  • writing
  • dancing
  • partying
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • magic
  • music
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • languages
  • hitchhiking
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Well i have a lot of movies i like:
-Lost in translation(it´s a very beautyful movie about feeling lonely).
-Tu vida en 65 minutos(your life in 65 minutes)(the most beautiful film i have ever seen)
-Dancing in the dark(with Bijork)
-My life without me.
-the secret sound of the words
And book well im not reding too much but the last I read was: Cien años de soledad(100 years of lonliness), the men who didnt love the women, canone inverso....
I am kind of a freak who loves reading grammar and lisguistics books!!! :)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One of the most beautiful moments in my life was when I travelled the first time to Berlin, I was the night before travelling in bed, I had got the first salary of my life, I could not fall asleep, I didn´t know what to do with it since I was living with my parents and they told me that I could spend the money I had earned the way I wanted, so I decided to go the following day to the airport and try to find a ticket somewhere, and that´s what I did the next morning, I didn´t know where to go, but since I had studied German for some years I asked for Berlin and they had a ticket for 3 hours later...jejjee I enjoyed it so much.

Now I have to add anorther thing that happened to me some years ago:
Imagine you open slowly your eyes, you feel that the sun is shining on your face and you find out that you´re on a beach, for a moment you don´t know where, but after some minutes you remember that you are in a very little village in Portugal, you went there by car with some friends, very easy-going people, we set up our tents everywhere(even where it wasn´t supposed to be done) so my friends decided to go to sleep in the tents, but I decided to go out a little, cuz I wanted to find out a little how the Portuguese are, and talk to them. so my blurry mind remembers gradually that I went out, I met really nice people with whom I went to a very nice place to listen to good music, I drank a lot and magically I don´t remember anything else, I am at the beach, the following day sleeping on a deck chair and it is a little late(18 in the afternoon, and the previous day I had gone out at midnight), so I call my friends to ask them where they are, and they had already left Protugal..cuz they tried to call me but my mobile did not work, and the following day they had to work. So you are in Portugal, without money, without friends, without speaking the language, without your wallet, without documents, but you have to reach your country(in my case Spain)so what could I do? Hitch-hiking!!! I went to a supermarket and asked for a piece of cardboard and I wrote on it:" Spain please", and guess!!! the first person who stopped was a couchsurfer!! he took me to the border and gave a little money to eat, and then I met a portuguese veterinary who took me to a souththert city in Spain!! and then I met someone on the street who offered me place to sleep, and the following day I arrived in Madrid!!! incredible isn´t it?, I was so pesimistic about people, but now I think the world is definitely a better place!

Some other experiences I have lived:

-Some years ago I worked harvesting grapes in Italy to have some money to travel.
-I have also hitchhiked in Greece(was taken by some gipsies and a truck driver from thessaloniki to volos), I have also hitchhiked with a cousin of mine in Colombia from a city to another after a party, we had spent all our money and didn´t have any to take the bus back home....

As you can see, a born traveller!! :)

Teach, Learn, Share

If someone wants to teach me his/her language(I love all languages in the world),I can teach you spanish or English. I love also writing, listening to incredible stories about your trips!But I know there are loads of things I ignore and I would love to learn, so I´d give a go to anything you can teach me.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain

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