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Overview

  • 4 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Sign Language - Spanish; learning Italian
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2015
  • Architecture Student
  • Architecture
  • From Montevideo, Montevideo Dept, Uruguay
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About Me

I'm 25 years old and living alone near the university. I'm actually studying architecture and I still have got a few more years until I become an architect!
Ever since i was little i loved travelling a lot. I happened to be at argentina, brazil, bolivia, peru, and Chile. Now, in 2015 i'm tavelling all round the world with our academic architecture voyage in which we go to USA, Asia, and Europe for about 8 months. That's why I'll be searching for new homes and always will be :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because of my interest in urbanism, i find most interesting and authentic to get to know the places through out their people and custums, avoiding as possible the touristic view. Couchsurfing seems to be the ideal then!

Interests

I love sepnding time outdoors, at parks, lanes, walking down the streets, just wandering and getting lost. Somehow i think better when im moving around. I like architecture, as well as art, poetry, theatre, cinema, music, dance, movement i guess. Travelling of course gets you to meet all this in different parts of the world, so that you can enrich your experience and bring it to everywhere you go, including coming back home :)

  • arts
  • poetry
  • singing
  • architecture
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • beer
  • dieting
  • walking
  • drinking
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • outdoor activities
  • parks

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: Jazz, blues, rock, britpop, indie, cumbia, samba, candombe and tango!
MOVIES: Pierrot le fou (Jean Luc Godard), star wars (all of them, George Lucas), a Clockwork Orange (Kubkrick) , pulp fiction (tarantino), la dolce vita (Fellini) , zelig (Woody!) and so many more!
BOOKS: lately most of David Harveys work, Crime and punishment (Dostoievski), war and peace(Tolstoi), Cien años de soledad (García Márquez), La ciudad (Levrero), A woman of no importance and The importance of being Earnest (Wilde), Yerma, Doña Rosita and poetry of (García Lorca), El principito (Saint-Exupery), theatre of Moliere, Almas Muertas (Gogol), El libro de los abrazos(galeano), Treasure Island (stevenson <3).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I am part of the architecture students union, in spanish Centro de Estudiantes de Diseño y Arquitectura - CEDA, and in 2013 we made a big encounter in Atlántida (45 km from Montevideo) for 2000 architecture students from Latin America.
There we camped and attended to workshops in different part of the cities of Montevideo, Atlántida and Maldonado, all organized by students. We organized as well conferences and workshops in the campsite, and in the evenigs a country was the host and threw aparty and shared a typical food and drink.
For a week we all lived together meeting, sharing, and studying architecture , taking advantage of the fact that at this encounter was made by students for students.

I was in the contents organization, so with a group of four i have to make sure all activities took place and solve any inconvenience that could appear. Two years before the "ELEA" took place our group had to proposed the them and the activities that would develop it.

It was a very gratifying experience no doubt!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach english or spanish! Drink "mate" and walk around the city talking about architecture and urbanism.
I would like to learn about people, their interest, their art expressions, and how their home land provides them or not
I can share a few poems and songs ;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Of course some music!
I play little the guitar but love singing.
I like cooking also, so you can taste some of our uruguayan diet.
We can also share some beers together in a bar and talk about poetry and pretend we are from the belle epoque ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Russian Federation, Scotland, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Uruguay

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