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Overview

  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian; learning French, Spanish
  • 41, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • PhD in English and Postcolonial Literature (and Cinema!)
  • Master Degree in European Foreign Languages
  • From Treviso
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Get to know people and the world, make new experiences and fill up my life both culturally and spiritually

ABOUT ME

Beh, ho una passione per il mondo, che è bello perché è vario!

Well, I have a passion for the world, "che è bello perché è vario" as we say in Italian. "Variety is the spice of life", that's what the English say. :-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have both hosted (in my flat in Venice) and been hosted (in Mantua, Florence and England). I have always met wonderful people with whom I'm still friends!

Interests

Literature, cinema, art, foreign languages, travelling, yoga, culture in general...

  • arts
  • culture
  • literature
  • yoga
  • movies
  • traveling
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

FILM: Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Charlie Chaplin, Pedro Almodovar, Woody Allen, Jane Campion + unknown authors from all over the world (I love world cinema)

LIBRI: William Shakespeare, "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, "Clear Light of Day" by Anita Desai, "White Teeth" by Zadie Smith, "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie, "An Angel at My Table" by Janet Frame, "Balun Canan" by Rosario Castellanos, "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy, "If on A Winter's Night a Traveller" by Italo Calvino, "The late Mattia Pascal" di Luigi Pirandello, "The House of the Spirits" di Isabel Allende.

MUSICA: Tori Amos, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, Ben Harper, Sparklehorse, Janis Joplin, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, PJ Harvey, Queen, Pink Floyd...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

A lot of amazing things have happened in my head. As for real amazing things, isn't life amazing by itself?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United Kingdom

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