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Overview

  • 11 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Catalan, Valencian, English, Spanish; learning French
  • 30, Male
  • Member since 2015
  • Travelling
  • BSc Civil Engineering, MSc in Management
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

I was born and always lived in the city of Barcelona, except for a year that I spent living and studying in Holland. I can speak English, Spanish and Catalan. I would love to learn French (I can speak just a little bit of it).

I studied engineering and management but I didn't enjoy them and I don't see myself working in those fields right now. So far I've worked as a Maths teacher for students preparing access to university exams, and I've worked in other small jobs but unfortunately my real job is still unknown...

I define myself as an open-minded person, willing to learn about anything I find on my path. Nature and biodiversity particularly amaze me, and I would really like to learn about it and about how to preserve them. I am also very interested in science, especially physics and biology (even though I don't know so much about biology). I started practicing yoga two years ago and I enjoy learning about it. I love having conversations about ethics and philosophy.

Last summer I decided to spend a year only travelling and volunteering, learning about the world and its people but also about myself.

I don't eat meat or fish and I am NOT looking for a party-trip but a healthy way of life, so I am more calm and prefer enjoying the day trekking in nature or practicing yoga than partying hard in the night. Of course, I would love to share it with you! I am a respectful person and non-smoker.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I love travelling
I love meeting new people
I love sharing culture

Interests

Travelling
Nature
Sustainability
Yoga
Meditation
Philosophy
Ethics
But basically discovering and learning from whatever comes on my way.

  • culture
  • ethics
  • vegetarian
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • guitar
  • soccer
  • biology
  • languages
  • mathematics
  • philosophy
  • physics
  • nature
  • trekking
  • permaculture
  • bioconstrucción
  • hatha yoga
  • biodiversity

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Pink Floyd, Jero Romero, Manel

Movies: Fight Club, Shuttered Island, The Wave, Origin, The Butterfly Effect

Books: Siddartha, Into the wild, Genesis, Sapiens, Alan Watts, The Fountainhead

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Building a kindergarten in Keov Mony, Cambodia, 2014

Trekking Rinjani mountain in Lombok, Indonesia, 2015

Swimming with mantas in Flores, Indonesia, 2015

Working and living for and with refugees in Greece, 2017

Hitchhiking south to north of Chile, 2018

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Spanish, Catalan, maths and physics

Learn: English, French, other languages and playing the guitar!

What I Can Share with Hosts

A deep conversation
A yoga or meditation practice
A trekking day

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, Spain

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