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Overview

  • 4 references 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Teacher, writer, blogger.
  • BA in Literature, currently pursuing a MA in Cultural Stu...
  • From Bogotá, Colombia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy.

ABOUT ME

I'm a 28-years old aspiring writer. I love every possible cultural expression. I decided to go for everything when I do anything. If you don't dare, you don't win, and that became my life philosophy. And walk with my eyes wide open. There's always a surprise or a casual word that might open a brand new path in life.

PHILOSOPHY

Only connect.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Meetings and being a guide for foreigners. Not just "this is ***** building", but trying to show people the history and what's behind a building, an artwork, a street or even a word.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I came to CS, like every good thing in my life, for chance. I was walking through Buenos Aires and I saw tango in Plaza Serrano. And the teacher paired me with an Aussie girl and she told me about CS. Next day, I was in a picnic, and I met a lot of awesome people. In May, I was the "guide" (and my friend Sebastián hosted) an amazing girl from Washington DC for almost a week.

Interests

A little bit of everything. Literature (bring me a book, I'll devour it!), performing arts, painting, sculpture, movies (I watch anything), TV, walking, newspaper every single day, eating and trying to cook, politics, propaganda, religion, stand-up comedy, sports (I can't do any, but I'll watch'em all), listen to music... but mainly, discover new things. You don't know if your next best thing is waiting around the corner.

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • literature
  • performing arts
  • tango
  • cooking
  • picnic
  • walking
  • politics
  • movies
  • tv
  • painting
  • music
  • sports
  • teaching
  • history
  • religion
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC
Sting, Travis, Stereophonics, Coldplay, Queen, Yes, The Moody Blues, The Police, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, U2, Kanye West, Diane Birch, Blur, Gorillaz, Dave Matthews Band, Bruce Springsteen, Björk, Led Zeppelin, Sidestepper, Jamiroquai, No Doubt, Orishas, Jay-Z, Katie Melua, The Decemberists, Morcheeba, Texas, The Kooks, Modest Mouse, Lupe Fiasco, Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Air, The White Stripes, Röyksopp, Faithless, Missy Higgins, David Bowie, Beck, Kenna, The Cure, Khaled, Lily Allen, Rammstein, The Prodigy, AC/DC, Johnny Cash, The Smiths, Morrissey, Public Enemy, M.I.A., The Strokes, A Tribe Called Quest, Ray Charles, The Clash, Death Cab for Cutie, Robbie Williams...

MOVIES
Anything by Alexander Payne, Wes Anderson, Cameron Crowe, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jason Reitman, Joel & Ethan Coen, Quentin Tarantino, Santiago Segura, Alex de la Iglesia, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Judd Apatow, Guy Ritchie, Richard Linklater, Michel Gondry, Sacha Baron Cohen, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Good Will Hunting, Crash, Y tu mamá también, Cenizas del paraíso, The Princess Bride, La estrategia del caracol, The Fifth Element, The Truman Show, Amélie, Serendipity, Little Miss Sunshine, The Sound of Music, As good as it gets, Silence of the Lambs, Pleasantville, Scarface, The Godfather, Goodfellas, When Harry met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle...

BOOKS
Anything by Cees Nooteboom, Paul Auster, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, Zadie Smith, Junot Díaz, Michael Chabon, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Ricardo Silva, Thomas Mann, Machado de Assis, Harry Mulisch, T.S. Eliot, Alberto Fuguet, Rodrigo Fresán, Roberto Bolaño, Fernando Vallejo, León de Greiff, H.P. Lovecraft, Don DeLillo, Martin Amis, Jonathan Safran Foer, Arthur Machen, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Wislawa Szymborska, Calvin & Hobbes, Peanuts, Rem Koolhaas, Raymond Carver, Aravind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, Art Spiegelman, Marjane Satrapi, Hugo Claus, Jorge Amado...

TV
South Park, The Simpsons, El Siguiente Programa, Peter Capusotto y sus Videos, Arrested Development, The Big Bang Theory, Two and a Half Men (with Charlie Sheen), 30 Rock, Modern Family, New Girl, Frasier, Futurama

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have a text to be published in a book this year (2013). I've taught lots of amazing students. I question. I answer. I enjoy.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Ecuador, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia

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