CURRENT MISSION

Currently busy writing yet another social network's own profile.

ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Ben.

I can't believe it's already been 4 years since I came back home from what I call 'THE' trip: almost three years travelling around Asia. And now, I feel the time has come to experience again the thrill of travelling and living the unemployed life. And eastern Europe picked me this time.

I am a few weeks away from quiting my job and saying 'hasta luego' to everything. Yes, I'm so freaking nervous.

By the way, I'm a nice average guy with good sense of humour, don't belong to any specific urban group/tribe, pretty 'normal' I'd say (whatever 'normal' means). I'm easy to get along with, you'll see.
Not the kind of person who would ask someone I've just met: "so... what do you do?" Not really interested in how all of us sell our labour in order not to have an empty fridge. I am a modest and compassionate human being.

Proud to be an ATTAC member.

FB: https://www.facebook.com/benjamin.rodriguez.7161953
Travel blog: entretrenesyandenes.wordpress.com

PHILOSOPHY

I have a radical view about how our world is supposed to work. Social justice and environmental sustainability are capital ideas among my set of values. I love our planet.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The thing goes like this, basically: "hey, can you show me around and stay at your place?" What comes next is the magic of all this.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed many times and hosted even more, giving me the chance to truly interact with genuine people from diferent places. No matter if you're shy, talkative, contemplative, edgy, active, a vampire... you'll be warmly welcomed. Not a single bad experience.

Interests

Politics, Accelerationism, meditation, Trivial Pursuit, watching maps for hours, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty, Slavoj Žižek, hanging out with friends, absurd jokes, unexpensive tastes ;) I'm always craving for a shot of good licor café.

• writing
• books
• waltz
• history
• philosophy
• taoism
• maps
• degrowth
• trivial pursuit
• scientific socialism
• looking up while i walk

Music, Movies, and Books

Growing up in the 80s makes almost impossible not to love Star Wars, Indy, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, (blah blah blah.. this could go for hours).
Some favourite directors: Coen Brothers, Scorsese, Woody Allen, Terrence Malick, Wes Anderson, Tim Burton, Darren Aronofsky, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Spielberg, Kubrick, David Lean, Clint Eastwood, etc.

Reading Joyce's Ulises -> one of the best experiences of my life. I've read Lao Tse's Tao Te Ching a dozen times. In love with Russian literature.
Fav. authors: Torrente Ballester, Dickens, Tolstoi, Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marx, Proust, Balzac, Beat Generation, Foster Wallace, etc.

Music: classic Rock (you know, what my daddy used to listen to) and more recently indie music. My latest crush - > Hurray For The Riff Raff.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Getting my appendix removed in a village hospital in China. Thank you Google Translate.

Teach, Learn, Share

I never mastered in anything, however I can teach you some spanish recipes, the basics of meditation and Taoist thought or how to understand galician people.

What I Can Share with Hosts

- My mints plus a lot more.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Dominican Republic, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Morocco, Myanmar, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, Poland, Spain