Hello,

My name is Pedro and I am an Architecture and Urbanism student at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Two years ago I decided to join the Science Without Borders program. The SwB is a Brazilian Government Program in order to send selected students to study for one year in a another country. That is a lot of different places around the world but I chose United Kingdom. for the three reasons. The first one is because I always was interested about English culture and mores. The second one is because of the language itself, since that we have to do a proficient test to try the program. The third one is because the United Kingdom is located in Europe, where is easy to travel and know a lot of different cultures.

Here in England I am living in Derby and studying Architectural Technology and Practice at University of Derby. Derby is a very nice place for international students, and because of that, there is a lot of international students. I already had the pleasure to know people from Italy, Holland, Norway, Algeria, Nigeria, Dubai, India and also a number of people from different places and the different cultures from Brazil.

I already travel a lot here, I went to Germany (where I did the Romantic Rout (Romantischen Straße) went to Monique, Bremen and Hamburg) to Italy (Milan, Rome, Bologna, Venice, Naples, Cinque Terre) Belgium ( Brussels) Holland (Amsterdam) and Ibiza.

Now I am going to do another trip, with a Brazilian friend, and we are going to Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow and Warsaw) starting at 25/03/2015 to 13/04/2015.

I am very nice person and I like movies, arts, technology, music. I really like to party, I like to go to different nightclubs, pubs and drink a typical beverage. At the same time I like to chill, and cook and talk.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

All the trips that I mentioned here I did staying in hostels, which is very good because we can know people from different places that stays with us in the same room. But now I want to have a different experience and try knew things. And a friend of my told me about couchsurfing and I really would like to have that experience of really knowing someone from the place that I am going and know the culture and everything about it.

Also, I am here because if someone is coming to England and search about Derby and want to know let me know. Also, not only here, but in Brazil as well. I Brazil I live in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Belo Horizonte is a very good place to stay. And since that I am coming back to Brazil next august, my place is open for you that wants to know Belo Horizonte.

Centres d'intérêt

I am really interested in arts and technology and those two things fit and work together. I also like to cook, and learn how to cook typical foods from different places. I do not have any preferences, my objective here is to know different cultures.

• arts
• culture
• architecture
• cooking
• partying
• drinking
• pub crawls
• politics
• technology
• movies
• traveling
• music
• science

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

I like all the types of music, it depends on the event that I am in. But normally aI listen to pop, rock, indie and a lot of types of Brazilian music, like MPB, Samba and others.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

During the period that I am a guest and also a host I can share experiences, culture and a lot of things about Brazil and somethings about England. Since that is not a long period, I can try to teach some Portuguese as well.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

I can share experiences, Brazilian culture and mores. Also I can share knowledge about arts, architecture and technology. I am really into politics, so we can have some talk about that as well.

Pays que j'ai visités

Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Brazil, United Kingdom