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Overview

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  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified), German, Portuguese
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2016
  • PhD Student
  • International Economics
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 65% complete

About Me

Student and writer. I love to read and write many different stories. Be captivated by any magic moment where you feel you are part of something greater, where the mission you have here on Earth is clear.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet people from different cultures and backgrounds while traveling around the world.

Interests

Backpacking travelling, mountain biking, reading, theater, Latin American history, the Melitz model, econometrics, R programming, wine

  • books
  • literature
  • theater
  • wine
  • modeling
  • reading
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • cycling
  • backpacking
  • business
  • economics
  • teaching
  • history

Music, Movies, and Books

(There are too many favourites, but assuming I am going to be the rest of my life in a deserted island)
Top 3 Songs: Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven, Guns N' Roses - Paradise City, Red Hoy Chilli Peppers - Scar Tissue
Top 3 Movies: Casablanca, The Godfather, Good Bye Lenin!
Top 3 Books: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez), The Crazed Woman Inside Me (Montero)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Publishing one book: "Port and Maritime business networks in the South American Pacific" (in spanish) [https://www.up.edu.pe/fondoeditorial/Paginas/TIE/Detalle.aspx?IdElemento=502]

Teach, Learn, Share

I have some experience trekking and mountain biking through the Amazon, the Andes and the coastal desert of Peru. Quite verse in Latin American literature, Asia Pacific issues and I am always willing to learn (that's why I am doing a PhD x)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Pretty good stories on how to survive downhill biking on the Andes without breaking any bone

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Luxembourg, Panama, Peru, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Peru, Spain

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