CURRENT MISSION

meeting people

ABOUT ME

I'm a very normal guy who likes know and meet a lot of people from everywhere. I'm a quite and helpful guy but often I like have FUN and go AROUND the town until late.
Currently I live between Cosenza and Perugia. Previously I lived in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Geneva, Switzerland.

PHILOSOPHY

Age quod agis. Traditional latin sentence that means "Do what you are doing, and DO IT WELL"

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I decided to partecipate in the CS thanks to some friends of mine who always talked me so well about this community.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It's not long time since I'm a couchsurfer (I'm in since february 2009), but my experience is getting bigger and bigger.
I hosted:
Vaiva from Lithuania
Pia from Germany
Ginnie from USA
Vivian from Venezuela
Angela from Italy
Kasia and Pauline from Poland
Jenna from Finland
Merle from Estonia
Tabea from Switzerland
Auridete from Brazil
Madison from USA
Joanita from Lithuania
Nathalie and Lieselot from Belgium
Melodie from France
Dionne from England
Julie from USA
Dorota from Poland
Lilla from Hungary
and several friends not referred to CS

I was hosted by:
Sebastiano and Antonio in Rimini, Italy
Massimiliano in Perugia and Rome, Italy
Camila in Paris, France
Sandra in Paris, France
Danuta in Timisoara, Romania
Carla and Natacha in Belgrade, Serbia
Angela in Bologna, Italy
Krisztina in Budapest, Hungary
Evi and Katalyn in Budapest, Hungary
and several friends not referred to CS

I travelled or met with:
Francesco (Italy) in Vilnius, Lithuania
Simona (Lithuania) in Vilnius, Lithuania
Miriam (Spain) in Rimini and Milan, Italy
Sona (Slovakia) in Bratislava, Slovakia
Mayra (Mexico) and Valeria (Italy) in Perugia, Italy
Margarita (Greece) in Perugia Italy
Justine and Stephanie (France) in Perugia, Italy
Doerte (Germany) in Perugia, Italy
Erika (USA) in Perugia, Italy

visited 11 states (4.88%)

Interests

Sciences, above all Earth Sciences (geology, paleontology, mineralogy, etc...), watching DVD, going to the cinema, listening to classic and jazz music, playing sometime saxophone, reading scientific reports on sciences journals, writing, eating good foods and Guiness and Leffe beers, making trips around the Europe and talking about everythings.

• writing
• beer
• movies
• reading
• socializing
• music
• jazz
• earth science
• geology
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES
I have many preferite movies such it's so hard to write all of them. Just I prefer Action, commedy, thriller, science-fiction, TV drama.
Sit-com (Scrubs and The Big bang theory)
US cartoons (Simpson, Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad)and japanese anime (Naruto and One Piece)

MUSIC
Symphonic (Mahler, Bruckner, Tchaikovsky, Respighi, Beethoven and others)
Movie soundtracks (first of all John Williams, Howard Shore, Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer)
Italian opera (above all the second period Verdi's and Puccini's operas)
Jazz saxophone (John Coltrane, Micheal Brecker, Bob Mintzer, Brandford Marsalis, Sonny Rollins)
Classical saxophone (Nobuya Sugawa, Claude Delangle, Mario Marzi, Francesco Salime, Arno Borngkamp and Aurelia Saxophone Quartet)
Jazz in general (Charles Mingus, Maria Schneider, Kenny Wheeler, Dizzie Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval)
Concert band (my preferite works are Johan de Meij's "The Lord of rings", Alfred Reed's "El camino real", Philip Sparke's "Orient express", Jan var der Roost's "Sinfonia Hungarica", and André Waignein's "Diagram")
Rock-pop (Queen and Pink Floyd. Overall my preferite songs are Innuendo, Bohemian Rhapsody, Let me live, Who wants to live forever, I'm going slightly mad, The show must go on, Prince of Universe, Money, The Dogs of war, Shine on you crazy diamonds, Echoes, Learning to fly, Sorrow, Another Brick in the Wall, Us and them, Wish you were here)

BOOKS
I red several books in all my life but my preferite ones are:
The Picture of Dorian Gray, G. Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984, Flatlandia, Dolores Claiborne, The Dark Tower (all the seven books, in particular The Dark Tower V - Wolves of Calla is the best), other Stephen King's short novels, Fatherland, Enigma, The man in the high castle, Minority Report, Total recall and Philip Dick's other minor science-fiction novels, Isaac Asimov's Foundation cycle (six of seven books, Foundation and Earth is my preferite) and Books of robots, A. Huxley's Brave New world.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing things in my life?
Surely being graduated in Geology (Bachelor degree) and Music (conservatory diploma) in the same year (2004), and being uncle of a wonderful baby, named Chiara.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd like teach someone my geographical and musical skills, and I'd like learn foreign languages also including english (I've to improve it better).

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Lithuania, Switzerland

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