CURRENT MISSION

Enjoy life at it's fullest!

ABOUT ME

I think of myself as an outgoing person, with a lot of heart. I like nature and beautiful landscapes!

PHILOSOPHY

I believe our culture of profit and money as our new and ultimate guide (science supposedly killed God, as Nietzsche would say) is very anti-human. I value human cooperation for human improvement. We have the mission to change the superstructures of our society, in order to erradicate misery and raise our overall happiness to the maximum possible.

I believe there should be no obligation to work (I'm not lazy, it's just an "utopic" principle I stand for), we are not HOMO ECONOMICUS, we are human beings who deserve to have their desires fullfiled, and to have plenty lives, not to be eternal slaves to a system they didn't chose and will never truly participate in.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I wish I had a big home to host people from all around the globe. But unfortunate I'm still young and live in an aparment with my two small dogs!

I want to travel the world, get in touch with nature and my inner self (sorry about the cliché, lol!)! I love to meet new people and get all sorts of new ideas, it really makes me happy! In all my travels here in Brazil I always focused on making new friends and be/make people happy!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I still have none, but I've been to several encounters of Couchsurfers in Belo Horizonte, and I have a close friend who hosts people from all around the world! I think this is the ultimate social experience, plus it's a whole new level of human solidarity!

Interests

Nature, architecture and culture in general! If I meet new people in the process, it's even better!

I love music, arts, movies (I have a watchlist of 849 movies on imdb, haha) and new experiences. I absolutely love reading too, and my favourite writer is Fiodor Dostoievski (though I'm a huge fan of Goethe's literature too).

I read a lot of stuff on social sciences and politics. I've read some works by Erich Fromm, David Graeber, Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Weber, Jellinek, Horkheimer, Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, Florestan Fernandes, Celso Furtado, Paulo Freire, Gilberto Freyre, Bourdieu, Sorel, Adorno, Habermas, Karl Marx, Zizek, etc.

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• architecture
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• science
• social science
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Here are the movies I watched (I probably missed some, but I rated the ones I remembered to have watched):

http://www.imdb.com/user/ur31703318/ratings

And here is my watchlist:

http://www.imdb.com/user/ur31703318/watchlist

For those in CS who doesn't know brazilian music yet, I strongly recommend Novos Baianos, Chico Buarque, Tom Jobim, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento, Jorge Ben Jor, Belchior and Seu Jorge (I must be missing a lot, but if you send me a message, I can indicate much more!). Here is a great song by Novos Baianos:

Novos Baianos - Mistério do Planeta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8SfDZ65A0o

As to books, I love The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Guia do Mochileiro das Galáxias), Neil Gaiman (Sandman, Neverwhere, Fragile Things), Bernard Cornwell (Brave New World), All books written by Dostoievski, Machado de Assis, Jorge Amado, Goethe, Stendhal, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jose Saramago, Pablo Neruda (my favorite poet), Albert Camus and many others.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd be glad to teach/practice english or portuguese.

I'd be happy to learn anything you have to teach me! I'm very open to new experiences.

I can teach a lot about the brazilian culture and our historical experiences, and I've travelled a lot inside Brazil, so I can give people tips and hints on where to travel and how to get to the most amazing and astonishing places in Brazil (trust me, Brazil is a paradise on Earth, with ABSOLUTELY gorgeous nature and almost zero natural hazards).