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Overview

  • 22 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Sicilian, Spanish; learning Polish, Spanish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • No occupation listed
  • Have i been educated?!?
  • From Lombardy, Italy
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Do what I like to do and find someone who will pay me for doing that...

ABOUT ME

The space to fill is too small to describe my personality

PHILOSOPHY

Hedonism and epicureanism!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Honestly i just needed a bed without paying during a trip after i realized the power of being in this network in order to meet people and share emotions and experiences...

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been hosted in different countries such as Poland, Albania, Serbia, Netherlands and I hosted some couchsurfers in my flat in Poland, Belgium and in Italy. I almost had always great experience but even after those who were not really positive I never thought about quitting this amazing project! Humans are not perfect, CS is not perfect but it is still one of the best ideas I have seen so far to connect people and building cultural bridges, way much better than social networks that are mainly used to spam friends with bullshits.

Interests

Music (jazz and fusion specially), cinema, cooking, politics, economics and due to my italian origins i love the pleasures of life,I am definitely hedonist!

  • folklore
  • education
  • cooking
  • dieting
  • politics
  • movies
  • socializing
  • music
  • jazz
  • economics
  • teaching
  • international relations
  • psychology
  • religion

Music, Movies, and Books

I love cinema(Kubrick;Truffaut;Bergman;Fellini;Welles;Tarantino; Kieslowski, Tarkowski, Kitano, Altman, Hitchcock etc) and many others more) and music specially Jazz (Mingus, Coltrane, Gillespie, Parker, Baker etc) Fusion (Miles Davis, Steely Dan, Larry Carlton, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report Herbie Hancock) Funky (Earth, Wind & Fire, Jamiroquai) Soul (James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones) some good old bands (Led Zeppelin, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Emerson,Lake & Palmer, Clash) Brazilian music (MPS, Bossa Nova, Samba: Novos Baianos, Caetano Veloso, Cassia Eller, Secos e Molhados, Jorge ben Jor, Rita Lee, Vinicius de Moraes, Toquinho, Rappa, Seu Jorge, Djavan, Ivan Lins etc) and good DJ (Dimitri From Paris, Kruder & Dorfmeister, St Germain, Gilles Peterson)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Realizing that whatever I become or I will become is all thanks to the effort my parents did to provide me education, good manners, tastes, love, unconditional support and last but not least 46 chromosomes! ok this last effort it was done for their own fun ;)

Teach, Learn, Share

I can make you extremely bored with long discussions about politics, international relations, economy, religions etc...the only nerdy hobby I've got! I can make you totally astonished with my controversial points of view regarding tricky psychology topics such as love, male/female relations, cheating, wedding... wondering why women could never agree with me ;)I can make you fall in love for hot groovy old black music and jazzy tunes or for old cult movies... my tastes are quite vintage so forget about new shitty movies well known just thanks to marketing!I can make you cooking something eatable despite your poor cooking skills or national culinary tradition... ok our gastronomy is one of the few things we italians can still be proud of, let us be presumptuous at least here! ;)You can teach me everything I am not aware of as I am really curious about everything.. even topics like sexual diseases among Bonobo monkeys in eastern Congo or macrobiotic diet guidelines :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Brazil, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia

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