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Overview

  • 16 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified), French, Georgian, Italian
  • 29, Female
  • Member since 2015
  • Tour Guide
  • Architecture and languages
  • From Braga, Braga District, Portugal
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About Me

25 Year old Portuguese;
Born in europe but south american heart;
loooove BOOKS and TRAVEL;
studied architecture, worked as a tour guide in Porto, currently in AUSTRALIA, for a year!!!!
love languages, art and people;
music and cinema comes right after;
history, animals and chocolat.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because my most amazing life experiences were throught this website!!!
I started using it almost 5 years ago and i became fan in the first experience!!
So many stories, friends, experiences shared....and the ones to come!!!

Interests

About the DREAM:

" Eles não sabem, nem sonham,
que o sonho comanda a vida,
que sempre que o homem sonha
o mundo pula e avança
como uma bola colorida
entre as mãos de uma criança." >>>google translator-such a marvellous app lol

António Gedeão

Dream
Read
Old Bookshops
wearing pijamas on the street
a cup of tea
silence
talk (a lot)
swings
postcards

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • architecture
  • dining
  • cooking
  • chocolate
  • reading
  • traveling
  • volunteer work
  • drawing
  • camping
  • skiing
  • languages
  • volunteering
  • cinema
  • sustainability
  • veggie food
  • bycycle

Music, Movies, and Books

Saramago, Henry Miller, García Marquéz, Thomas More, Italo Calvino, Peter Zumthor, Vladimir Nabokov, Ken Follet, Galeano,J. K. Rowling, Milan Kundera (...) The unbearable lightness of being-my favourite book!!

Movies: fantasy, second world war related, drama, adventure, italian movies (love the language!!) Léon, the professional, La vita è bella, Ma che bella sorpresa, Aniki Bóbó!!

Pearl Jam, The Killers, Queens of the Stone Age, The Lumineers, The Tallest man on earth, The Beatles, The Doors, Kaiser Chiefs, Chet Faker, Ben Howard, Perota Chingó, Calle 13, Chet Baker, Vela Puerca, Naxatras

I can listen to every kind of music, depends on my mood!!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Grow up!!!
Voluntering work building houses from scratch;
Going to uruguay on exchange program;
Travel alone around south america and mexico;
Learn Italian;
Learn Chinese and Georgian....and forget it ahahaha;
Hitchhiking ( Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Georgia and Armenia, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Malaysia, Australia!!!)
New York, Porto and Tokyo in two days;
Convincing my parents to have my brother;
Travel around europe with a motorhome!!(with my parents, two months each year, during 16 years!!)
Take a "gap year"- it was just a semester off but it was the best thing i ever did!! I travelled all the way from Chile to Colombia by land!!!
Going to greece and learn traditional ceramics

Still, i have some high expectations for the future...

go back to south america and work as an architect in projects that i believe in!!
I would like to be a mom, one day in a really really far future!!
write a book
do Bungee Jumping in New Zealand
improve my skills at learning Chinese and actually be capable of having an entire conversation.
I would like to do something meaningful for humanity...
and something really meaningful with my life!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

Books!!!!!! movies, art, architecture, languages!!!

i am not a cheff in the kitchen but i can do some stuff, i have feed myself for the last 6 years living alone!!

would love to learn how to play the guitar... one day i will!!!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Braga: nice meals and a fireplace and my family!!!

If you are around porto: i am always there too despite i am not actually living there anymore but if i am around i can show the city and teach you some cool facts and stories about it!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Qatar, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Chile, Georgia, Portugal, Uruguay

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