My name is Luis Marcos and I am 24 years old.
Born and raised in Araxá - MG - Brasil, but lived in Uberaba - MG - Brasil for about 9 years already.
Currently at the LAST YEAR (finally) of Medicine school.
Lived for one year in Antwerpen - Belgium as exchange student and travelled to 37 countries during this period.
Have the dream of becoming a renowed neurologist and owning a hostel franchise.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Travel, meet new people, new places, new cultures!

Interests

• tattoos
• movies
• traveling
• investing
• sports
• swimming
• languages
• medicine
• lakes
• rivers
• mountains
• food
• football
• trekking
• sea
• healthy lifestyle
• calisthenics
• health and fitness

Music, Movies, and Books

Top 3 movies of all times:
Interstellar
The Departed
Gone girl

Books:
Sob julgamento
Num passado não muito distante
Vestígios
All of them written by the best author I know, my mother Denia Dutra :D

About music, I am quite eclectic...I guess there is a perfect song for each day, for each mood....And there is ACDC that suits any mood I guess.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Depends on the point of view, on what someone would consider as amazing...
-Paragliding
-Rappel (when I was at around 10 years old)
-Living abroad in Antwerpen - Belgium for one year as exchange student
-Travelling without plannning and ending up sleeping passing the night at a Mc Donalds
-Travelling with planning but nevertheless ending up sleeping at the beach in Split (and other similar situations)
-Travelled to 37 countries during one year living abroad. Thank you Ryanair (and some other companies that made it possible haha)
-Salkantay trek to Machu Picchu during a food poisoning (lost 8 kg in 4 days) and survived
-Survived the heights of up to 5000 meters above sea level in Bolivia (this was actually a truely hard experience for me)
-Going to Morumbi Stadium to watch my football team (São Paulo FC) play a game at the Libertadores da América Cup
-Going to Mineirão Stadium three times to watch Brasil play
(Brasil 2x1 Uruguay 2013 Confederations Cup;
Brasil 1x7 Germany 2014 World Cup - yes, I was there;
Brasil 3x0 Argentina 2018 World Cup qualifiers)
-Studying medicine ( during which each day is an incredible experience)

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Brazil