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Overview

  • 26 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian, Polish, Russian; learning Chinese (Simplified), German
  • 52, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Specialist in Slavic languages and old Slavic literatures...
  • PhD in Slavic Philology and Cultures of Central-Eastern E...
  • From Catania, Catania, Italy
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Catching the moment and enjoying the wisdom of life!! "I have not told the half of what I saw", Marco Polo

ABOUT ME

I'm an open-minded person, quite concerned with foreign cultures and with a ruling passion for foreign languages and literatures (especially Slavic ones!. I'm a teacher but I'm making my way into the Academic carrier to become a professor. I love writing and sometimes practising sports (but I don't like them very much, honestly!!!). Addicted to travelling, I literally love meeting people from all over the world and share experiences and opinions.
I'm not married...despite the fact I love children!!!

PHILOSOPHY

Liberal and independent, general relativism and concern for everyday life.

"You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself",
Galileo Galilei

"The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist"
Maria Montessori

"Leggere le pagine dei quotidiani siciliani è, purtroppo spesso, assai più appassionante di un romanzo giallo"
Andrea Camilleri

"Fashion have done more harm than revolution"
Victor Marie Hugo

"Уметь писать стихи не значит еще быть поэтом; все книжные лавки завалены доказательствами этой истины"
Б. Г. Белинский

"Литература, в которой не бьется тревога совести,— это уже ложь"
С. Лихачев

"Duszę się miewa.
Nikt nie ma jej bez przerwy i na zawsze.

Dzień za dniem, rok za rokiem
może bez niej minąć."
W. Szymborska

"Език свещен на моите деди
език на мъки, стонове вековни,
език на тая, дето ни роди
за радост не - за ядове отровни."
Иван Минчов Вазов

"Řeknu-li Praha, běda mi,
hned vaše oči zazáří mně;
jako bych shodil z ramen břímě
vždy pod těmito střechami"
Jaroslav Seifert

莫大于不知足,
咎真大于欲得。
"Tao Te Ching" di Lao Tzu

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I knew about couchsurfing from some friends and I suddenly decided to get through this experience since I share its philosophy!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

It has been, and still it is, enormously rewarding to me, one experience everyone should have at least once in their life!

Interests

Arts, writing, reading, literature, philology, linguistics, music, exotic food.

“Ein Roman überwindet Grenzen”
W. Goethe

  • mountaineering
  • tennis

Music, Movies, and Books

Schindler's List, The Last of the Mohicans, The boy in the striped pijama, The wind of passion, The scarlet letter, The doubt. - Ethnic sounds (Enya, Loreena Mckennitt), Justin Timberlake, Queen. - Essays and literary topics.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

An experience of mine which is worthwhile telling was snowboarding on the frozen Volga with -30 degrees!!! Breathtaking, fantastic, amazing!!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you English, Russian, Polish and other Slavic languages. I'm learning German and I'm going to learn Arabic!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Comfortable, natural spot in a green area of the Town, breakfast, private room and internet connection...

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Jordan, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Poland, United Kingdom

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