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Overview

  • 3 references
  • Fluent in Chinese (Simplified), English, French, Spanish; learning Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French
  • 32, Female
  • Member since 2012
  • MA Student
  • ...oh well
  • From The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
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About Me

Lo elemental es fluir
The elemental is to keep flowing

Breathe the air, get lost, eat and laugh in Paris, Marrakesh, Shanghai, Cuzco, Buenos Aires, Chongqing, Tokio, Angkor, Athens, Hanoi, and so on and so forth.
& hug that beautiful tree in Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Everywhere there's a smile, story or experience that's happening with or without you. CS makes the bounds to make you get to these smiles, stories and experiences and moreover to share them.

Political: We know it, travelling became a merchandise. CS is a tool to de-commodify travelling & rev-indicating it as a true experience lived with real people and not just tour guides, or tourists.

Interests

Travelling (bet u did't expected that one)
Mystery
Autonomy
Languages
Landscapes
Music with heart, cultural and symbolic meanings
Music for dancing like Thom York in the Lotus video
Culture studies
Random painting
Writting
Fooood!
Climbing
and
Wine, of course

  • culture
  • books
  • poetry
  • wine
  • languages
  • mountains
  • local food
  • local culture

Music, Movies, and Books

Promise I'll share more when we meet

Movie - Time of the Gypsies, Emir Kusturica
Documentary - Sunú, Teresa Camou
Book - Leonora, Elena Poniatowska

Music - This changes a lot! (now playing: Hinech Yafa- Light in Babylon)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2013- Singing in the metro: I've singed in the metro and cooked mexican food around Europe, to keep travelling. Thank you mexican food lovers!

2013- Paris with Julia (another incredible couchsurfer)

2013- Improvised Festival: I camped in a plaza in Venice with around other 15 backpackers from all around the globe that were without host, we were happy to found each other and to have formed a big group and that we could spend the night there together, in the group were people from Luxembourg, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Australia, and Mexico...one of the girls from Chile started doing aerial dancing in the tree at the plaza..at some point kids started coming to play with us....then the people that live around the plaza started to bring us food (from bread to just made pasta) and blankets, even wine and chocolates. We end up having an improvised festival in the plaza. Thank you warm and wonderful Venetians.

2016- Crazy beautiful crazy year: Me and Gil* met this married couple (and their little boy) in Phetchabun, Thailand...we couldn't communicate (so we just improvised)...they took us to Khao Kho district to see a psychedelic buddha! (google it now)....then they showed us their favourite places around, and drank ginger tea with us at their favourite viewpoint.....Thai people are beautiful beings. Thank you for existing.

Teach, Learn, Share

Let's philosophise about anything you want.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Lets exchange books!

Surfers: If you're not an exceptional macho (or macha), from the radical right, fascist, or something else similarly nauseous, I will be happy to host you!
Also if you don't mind small spaces. And post-graduates (nerds basically) convivial manners around you. The latter implies that you get coffee, and mini lectures in social sciences at any time of the day.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands Antilles, Spain, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Mexico, Netherlands

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