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Overview

  • 10 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Dutch, French, Italian
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • Visual Artist
  • No education listed
  • From Porto, Porto District, Portugal
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Getting away with it :p / Learning Dutch

ABOUT ME

I really can´t describe myself...
Although living in a complete mess nowadays I am a fan of minimalism, I enjoy the silence and peace even though I need people around me sometimes, I like animals however I am afraid of dogs, I like long hair but I can't resist to cut it during the winter. However, there are a couple of things, tiny little pleasures that has no contradictions: jasmine tea and morning coffee, water (both for drinking and swimming) and instant noodles, sleeping and listening to the pouring rain on a winter Sunday morning, the smell of grass on a spring morning and the smell of flowers on a midsummer's night... and so on, and so on.

•Recently I've visited Holland and I've fallen in love with the country. So I'm thinking about moving to there, any help with that (informations , jobs (even temporary), nice people, etc etc) would be very very very appreciated!•

PHILOSOPHY

Less is more

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted 4 amazing Latvians at the same time for ... a couple of days! :)

Interests

Arts, Design, Photography, Music, Pharmaceutical Culture

  • animals
  • dogs
  • arts
  • culture
  • design
  • photography
  • cooking
  • coffee
  • drinking
  • flowers
  • minimalism
  • music
  • swimming
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Intimacy, Un Chien Andalous, Annie Hall, Thicker Than Water, September Sessions, Taste of Cherry, Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction, 2001 Space Odyssey, White Cat Black Cat, Viskningar och rop, Mujeres al Borde de un Ataque de Nervios, Kika, A Estoria do Gato e da Lua, Il Sorriso Di Diana, Lost In Translation, Survive Style 5+, Drive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monsoon Wedding, Before Sunrise, etc etc etc

Books: Dante's Inferno (and the rest I'll show you)

Music: Massive Attack, Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Finley Quaye, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Dimitri from Paris, Rachid Taha, Louie Austen, Nitin Sawhney, Morrisey, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, Paco de Lucia, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Towa Tei, Groove Armada, Gorillaz, Magnet, Scissor Sisters, Phoenix, Electronic, Basement Jaxx, Apparat, Horace Andy, Linval Thompson, Lee Perry, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Beirut, Alt-J, Django Django, Hammock, Alex Turner, Kasabian, etc etc etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

•catching up a 700mm lens free-falling
•waking around Oostvaardersplassen (natural reserve in Netherlands) pitch black

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: ...Photography tricks!?
Learn: Languages and... cooking!

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal

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