“May all beings everywhere be happy and free, and may the thoughts, words, and actions of my own life contribute in some way to that happiness and to that freedom for all.”

Hello, I am Fernando, a Financial Engineering actually studying a postgraduate diploma in IT. I am an easy going person and I really like to spend time with travelers, I will make sure that you and I enjoy our time together.

I am from Medellin, Colombia and I love my country and its multiculturalism. I am totally open to speak about any topic, and I want to learn about your personal experiences. I wish you accept that I sleep in your couch and I can bring happiness to your life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to know people.

Interests

Basically, the pillars of mi life are the knowledge and the meditation to observe how everything is constantly changing. Over these two things I have built my interests.

• writing
• meditation
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• cycling
• skateboarding
• teaching
• philosophy
• trekking
• conversations
• studying
• working
• knowing people

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
1st symphony, Jean Sibelius.
Don Quixote, Richard Strauss.
Violin and orchestra concert in D major, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
7th symphony, Anton Bruckner.
Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner.
Liebesträume, Franz Liszt
Nocturne no 9, Frédéric François Chopin.
5th symphony, Ludwig van Beethoven.
A little night music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Books:
Ethics demonstrated in geometrical order, Baruch Spinoza.
The concept of time, Martin Heidegger.
Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari.
Capital in 21st century, Thomas Piketty.
Intelligent investor, Benjamin Graham.
The accursed kings, Maurice Druon.
The Aleph, Jorge Luis Borges.
Cronopios and Famas, Julio Cortazar.
Twelve pilgrims, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy.
Tristan and Isolde, Gottfried von Strassburg.

Movies:
Black Swan.
V for Vendetta.
Birdman.
Into the wild.
The curious case of Benjamin Button.
Wall street.
Wall street money never sleeps.
Le capital.
The big short.
Southside with you.
La la Land.
The untouchables.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Vipassana.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you:
- Finance:
- Financial maths.
- Financial analysis.
- Project formulation and evaluation.
- Financial planning.
- Real options.
- Treasury.
- Portfolio theory.
- Stock, Bonds and Derivatives valuation.
- Market, Credit and Operational risk.
- Maths.
- Statistics.
- Advanced Excel.
- Object Oriented Programming in JAVA.
- The basics of R, Python, mySQL and postgreSQL.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook!

Countries I’ve Visited

Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Mexico, Panama, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, New Zealand