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Overview

  • 618 references 282 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian; learning Spanish
  • 47, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • Statistics Professor, Trainer and Life Coach
  • PhD degree in Applyed Statistics
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About Me

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I host ONLY 1 person per time.

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DON'T CHOOSE me 'cause I can make you SAVE MONEY but CHOOSE ME because u really want to:
• Meet me AND
• Share deep thoughts AND
• Enjoy light chats AND
• Laughs till the belly hurts AND
• Create an amazing connection

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I'm here to SHARE not to HELP, except for real emergency.

🎯LIFE MISSION
INSPIRE YOU: happiness is only real when shared.

I have an OVERWHELMING PASSION for LIFE and FEELINGS :)

I'm enthusiastic, sensitive, curious, positive, sensible, open-minded, creative, passionate, friendly, honest, talkative, intuitive, competitive and straightforward but NOT PERFECT AT ALL ;)

My CONTRADICTIONS ... someone said ... someone else said:
I'm wise as a Guru/a Peter Pan never grown
interesting/boring
supportive/selfish
dreamer/realistic
humile/arrogant
experienced man/naive child
sociable leader/lone wolf

I think to be all of them because I've a contract with life ... to be COMPLETE ;)

Two the main features of my behaviour: the passionate and romantic side, about people and life with great enthusiasm, and the realistic-cinical side against stupidity/superficiality and people giving up or being content with what life offers.

I'm not a reactive person (who waits for events) but proactive one (I'm looking for events) nor I want to hope or wait for something which never happen if I don't fight for it. Less thoughts, more actions. Less brain, more heart.

I like enjoying life in every way, possibly with other people because there is no happiness without sharing.

☀️PHILOSOPHY

From MOVIES and BOOKS:
"Happiness is only real when shared" (Into the wild).
"You make me want to become a better man" (As good as it gets).
"Has anything you've done, made your life better?" (American history X).
"The past is gone, the future has still to happen, so we must live the present because it's a gift. That's why it's called "present" (Kung fu panda).
"There is no God in me nor in you but in the space between us, that is in what we share" (Before sunrise).
"Life is too short to waste time in order to find the answers. Better to enjoy the questions" (Paolo Coelho).
"Don't be content: follow what you love otherwise you'll love what you'll find (Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi).
" The world changes with your example not with your opinion" (Paolo Coelho).

MY PHILOSOPHY
No excuses and skip the bullshit! You are the ONLY OWNER of your life!
Every song has an ending, but is there any reason not to enjoy the music?
Stop being afraid ... do it!
A ship is safe in harbour but that's not what ships are for!
If you don't live for something you will die for nothing!
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain!
1.000 remorses rather than 1 regret!
Enjoy YOUR life instead of wasting time thinking life is bad. Be angry and negative could be a CHOICE but not the SOLUTION!
Find your shadow: the sun is behind you!
Find harmony, first, inside you, then around you!
Stop talking and listen to your needs!
Close your eyes and feel the people!
Open your eyes and start to live!
You were born as an original. Don't die as a copy!

Believe in your dreams: when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it!

LOVE and SEX:
Conquer her mind and you'll have all the rest.
LOVE is the power of life, the "medicine" of human sickness, anyway, SEX is a wonderful "drug" if shared spontaneously.
MAN: "There are two things that I really really enjoy in life ... the second one is travelling" :DDD by my hero Roberto Benigni.
WOMAN: For whole their lives women wait for the Prince Charming ... in the meanwhile they get married.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

🌍HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING:

August 2009: CS registration without confirmation
April 2010: Beginning of my CS life
May 2011: CS Team Member: Welcome Greeter
July 2011: CS Team Member: Florence's Ambassador
February 2013: CS close New Member Welcome group

HOSTED (till 2014): 212 people for 348 nights
HOSTED (again from 2021): 29 people for 45 nights

SURFED (till 2016): 62 couches for 111 nights
SURFED (again from 2021): 8 couches for 18 nights

😍COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE: AMAZING!!!
My first experience ever as a guest was simply unforgettable!!!
The final worldcup football match in Alicante with Àngels :)
The Italian trip around Italy with my 3 Portuguese friends :)
The hospitability and welcoming style of Turkish people OMG!!!
The incredible 5 weeks in Czech Republic, Russia (and the unforgettable picnic) and Ukraine :)
Hosting: great quality time with my surfers, sharing stories, laughing, cooking together, going out with friends and talking all the night.

Interests

🤗MY PRIORITY is YOU!

More specifically: PEOPLE, FOOD (I'm not vegetarian but I love animals), travelling, reading, watching movies, going out with friends, krav-maga, youth in action's trainings, scuba diving, magic tricks, chess, ...

I'm NOT into GOING TO DISCOTEQUES (but I like house parties) nor POLITICS.

  • books
  • cooking
  • potluck
  • house parties
  • movies
  • chess
  • reading
  • traveling
  • magic
  • scuba diving
  • teaching
  • statistics
  • food
  • friends
  • people
  • games
  • deep talks
  • chats

Music, Movies, and Books

🎥MOVIES
Non ci resta che piangere, The last of Mohicans, Titanic, Meet joe Black, Magnolia, Crash, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Amelie of Montmartre, Memento, Closer, The legend of 1900, American history X, As good as it gets, Groundhog Day, Into the wild, The Godfather, Beautiful mind, Avatar, The snatch, The bucket list, Love actually, Inception, The experiment, Dogville, The fountain, Before sunrise, Intouchables ...

📺TV SERIES
I fell in love with "LOST" the only one who made me cried (4th season, 5th episode). I really liked "Sex and the city", a bible about women ;), "Dr. House", I love his cynicism and "Scrubs" for the brilliant way to mix funny and moving moments, "Lie to me" with a superb Tim Roth and his science about non-verbal and para-verbal communication, "La casa de papel" for its smartness and, of course, "Game of thrones" …!!! "The gambit's queen", "How I met your mother", "Sherlock", "The Crown", "Downton Abbey" and I'm in love with Sheldon Cooper from "The big bang theory".
"This is us" is unbelievable and "Gomorra" is astonishing!!!

🎶MUSIC
Generic but I really like movie soundtracks and trance music (the opposite ;)).
My number one is "Sweet harmony" by The beloved, then I really like "Wicked game" by Chris Isaak and "Bitter sweet" by Apocaliptyca, the singer of The Him and the singer of The Rasmus.
Yiruma - River flows in you

📚BOOKS
"On being an eagle" and "Men come from Mars and woman from Venus" my two MUST BOOKS. Moreover, I love Baricco and there are so many other books to list!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

❤️Erasmus project, youth in action's trainings, my first CS experience, my first lecture at the university.

Watching the amazing video "Where the hell is Matt".

Watch the final worldcup footbal match (Italy-France) on 9th of July, 2006 and screaming joyfully at the end with friends :)

Repeat the same after 4 years in Crevillent (Alicante, Spain)
K'naan - Waving Flag.

The Indonesia-Thailand travel on August 2014; probably the most amazing thing I've ever seen was the train market in Maeklong.

The Thailand-Malasya travel on August 2015. The most amazing things were staying 10 days at Phi Phi islands and diving with sharks in Sipadan.

The Cambodian-Thailand travel on August 2016. The most amazing thing was being hugged by a cute elephant during the Mondulkiri Project.

Diving with Dolphins (Zanzibar, 2017) and with a whale shark (Redang, Malesya on August 2018)!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

🗣️Learn from experience, share it and teach what you learnt. Then we can grow up and get the world better :)

I can TEACH Statistics, chess, magic tricks and italian recipes.

I'd like to LEARN Spanish language, new magic tricks and recipes, your point of view about everything :)

I LOVE to SHARE laughs, chats, deep talks, life experiences, CS stories, thoughts and ideas about everything, drinks and food

What I Can Share with Hosts

For sure positivity, enthusiasm, will of sharing, laughing, chatting, talking and cooking together

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, San Marino, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United Kingdom

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