CURRENT MISSION
Learning about screenwriting!

ABOUT ME

Hi! I am Valentina, a 26 year old girl living in Rosario, Argentina. I work from home as a freelance translator and writer.

I want to receive you, Coachsurfers, to learn about you and show you the city where I live in!

I am easygoing, open minded, friendly, curious, straight forward, tolerant, and I am always willing to try and learn new things!

PHILOSOPHY

Needing nothing attracts everything

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am in Couchsurfing because I love listening to people's stories and learning about different cultures and lifestyles.

Interests

I love reading Literature and Philosophy, watching movies and TV series (Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Girls, Sex & the City, Twin Peaks, Lost, Californication, Law & Order S.V.U, Six Feet Under, Scrubs...) , doing yoga, dancing tango, running, sharing stories with friends, having a beer and a good conversation in a pub, drinking mate next to Paraná River, sunbathing in my granny's land and, of course, travelling!

• culture
• literature
• dancing
• tango
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• yoga
• running
• drinking
• pub crawls
• movies
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• guitar
• teaching
• freelancing
• languages
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

-Music:

As I am Argentinean, I like dancing and listening tango music, especially Piazzolla. The folklore from my country is great too and I like to dance chacareras, zambas, and gatos!

Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Onda Vaga, Charly Garcí­a, Divididos, Lisandro Aristimuño, León Gieco, Andrés Calamaro, Virus, Babasónicos, Bersuit Vergarabat, Illya Kuryaky and the Valderramas, and Sumo are Argentinian bands and solists that I listen to all the time. :D

I think that British rock/pop is really amazing! I love Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Coldplay, Pink Floyd,The Kinks, Radiohead, U2. I also like bands and solists from the U.S like Aerosmith, Creedence, Janis Joplin, The Doors, No Doubt, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The White Stripes...

Other bands/solists that I like: Jack Johnson, Jorge Drexler, Joaquín Sabina, Silvio Rodríguez, Kevin Johansen, Manu Chao, The Wailers.

-Movies:

My favourite film directors are Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar, Quentin Tarantino, Joel & Ethan Coen, Sofia Coppola, Fabián Bielinsky, Francis Ford Coppola, Jud Appatow, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Stephen Daldry, Cameron Crowe, Stanley Kubrick and Jason Reitman. I haven't seen all the movies they have made, but I want to because I know that I would enjoy them a lot! I still have to discover some great creators like David Lynch, Ingmar Bergman, Orson Welles, Federico Fellini, Bernardo Bertolucci and Vittorio da Sica.

Movies that I enjoyed: Revolutionary Road, All Good Things, Silver Linings Playbook, Amèlie, Black Swam, 50/50, Inception, Garden State, (500) Days of Summer, Run Lola Run, American Beauty, Shrink, The life of David Gale,Entre le murs,Crazy, The Life of the Others, The Secret in their Eyes, Ashes of Paradise, La Ciénaga, Into the Wild, Fight Club, Paris I Love you, Trainspotting, Big Fish, Being John Malkovich, Atonement, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Reality Bites, Superbad, Hombre mirando el sudeste, Slumdog Millionaire, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...

-Books:

Written in Spanish (or translated into Spanish): Rayuela (Julio Cortázar), El Aleph (Jorge Luis Borges), Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges), The Stranger (Albert Camus), The Prince (Macchiavelli), El Túnel (Ernesto Sabato), La Tregua (Mario Benedetti), Cien años de soledad (Gabriel García Márquez), El amor en los tiempos del cólera (Gabriel García Márquez)...

Written in English: 1984 (George Orwell), The Catcher in the Rye (J.D Salinger), The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald), The sound and the Fury (William Faulkner), Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut), Atonement (Ian McEwan), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mmmm....thinking about it!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to dance tango! And I can also help you to do some yoga, improve your Spanish, cook home-made pizza, and understand Argentinean culture and people.

I want to refresh my Italian, learn how to speak French, learn how to play the guitar and acquire knowledge from different types of people!

I would like to share the apartment where I live with Couchsurfers and show them the city!

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Peru, Spain, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Ireland