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Overview

  • 15 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning French
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Consultant
  • PhD
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Always re-discovering me I love to find new places and to discover how different people see the world. I hope we can talk and share our points of view. I'm interested in many topics, but unfortunately, I know very little about arts or sports. On the other side, I love to talk about politics, economics, and different ways to see the world. Also quite passionate about the environment and technology

On my background, I used to be an Environmental Engineer, but a master in Economy and a master in International Cooperation rounded many corners in my previous square mind. I've worked in climate change and tried to promote sustainable development in cities in Asia. Luckily my last job took me to see many different countries and made me passionate about discovering how different and similar they can be.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think Couchsurfing promotes the idea that we can all help each other to get to know each other, and I love that. As a friend who worked in Couchsurfing told me the point is for people from different contexts to meet and for them to have differences because it's out of those discussions where people can see different points of views and learn from each other. I fully agree on that!

Interests

Environment, traveling, volunteering

  • sustainable development
  • traveling,

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Forest Gump, The Big Concert, Inside Out
TV shows: Friends, The Big Bang Theory, How I met your mother

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Visiting over 50 countries in 5 continents gave me a lot of amazing adventures, but I think the most amazing of them is to meet very different and incredible people.

A few of the ever growing list of amazing memories I have are watching sunrise in Tikal, in Guatemala, get inside the MIT senior dorms (thanks CS!!!) in Boston, stay awake to see the sunrise Mexico, party in a bar in the 92th floor of a building in Shanghai, traveling in helicopter to a glacier in NZ, discover the most strange products in Japan, pub crawling in England, and many, many more!

Teach, Learn, Share

I love helping people so if there's anything I can teach you I'm happy to do it. I guess something in the areas of engineering, economics, or international relations I might be able to help. =)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I hope to share my perspectives and hear their points of view, because I think only through the eyes of the others we can discover new worlds and improve our own.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, England, France, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Mongolia, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, Netherlands, South Korea, Thailand, United States

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