CURRENT MISSION

Travel and let travel!

ABOUT ME

I like to travel, I like to meet interesting people... and talk to them.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to make others' lives better and I want (but do not expect) them to make my life a little better... Too much to ask for?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Went to Brazil (Rio de Janeiro) in 2011. My first experience was great!

Fui ao Brasil em 2011. A minha viagem foi maravilhosa.

Interests

The classics: literature, especially in Portuguese, Spanish, Italian and Russian, traveling, painting, playing music, dancing salsa, teaching languages (Spanish, Italian, Russian)and learning languages (Turkish, French). History and languages.

• humanities
• books
• literature
• dancing
• traveling
• painting
• music
• teaching
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: the OLD ONES. Fellini, Tarkovsky, Almodovar, De Sica, Visconti, Pasolini.

Music: Chorinho, Mozart, Scarlatti, Fado, Old blues, Landó, Samba e Bossa Nova, Pagode, Flamenco, Old Classic Jazz. I do not understand the 80s... :)

Books: Cervantes, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Saramago, Amado, Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Melvill, Italo Calvino, Primo Levi, Mandelstam, Fernando Pessoa, Faulkner, Orhan Pamuk, Solzhenitsyn, Varlam Shalamov, Dante.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Learning a foreign language changed my life. After learning Spanish came Portuguese, Italian, Turkish, French. The door was opened...

The most amazing thing I have seen is Amazonas (Colombia, Brazil and Perú)- Life-changing experience... The fjords or Norway and the coral-reefs of Belize come next... As for the cities... Istanbul, Rio and Lisbon are amazing!

Teach, Learn, Share

Everyone is a teacher and everyone is a student, that's it. The world is becoming a better place when we find friends, when we can share... a meal, a conversation, a thought, a book, a song.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A walk around the city? A dinner?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Malta, Moldova, Morocco, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Italy, Mexico, Portugal, Ukraine, United States

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