My name is Jean Carlo Grandas Franco and i come from Colombia, where I was born and raised. I studied mechanical engineering at a Colombian college from 2010 to 2015 and now i'm lookig for postgraduate studies abroad specially in Germany. During my entire life I had the possibility of learning several foreing languages among spanish (which is my mother language).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The main reason for being here, as for myself, is that I love travelling but specially getting to know a little more about the culture of the places i'm visiting, and that's not something you might be experiencing by booking you hostels everywhere you go.

What I would actually expect the most while looking for a short-time accomodation would be someone who understands how the mentality of people could be varying from country to country, but that doesn't absolutely mean thats wherever I go the others must adjust to the way I life and I see things. I would like to have the opportunity of sharing a nice time with the locals as well as the experiences.

Music, Movies, and Books

Among my favorite music styles I can name a few: soft rock and classical music. I'm a classical music lover, but also like many old british and american rock bands. I also have a good taste for Italian music.

Reading is another one of my hobbies. I would be pleased to read any book as long as it matchs to my interesses, just to clearify which they are, I love the short horror stories from Poe and Lovecraft, but also have read Crime and Punishment, Essay about blindness of Saramago and so on. As I was a Teenager I had the possibility of reading 3 books of the entire Harry Potter series, the last ones specifically.

I'm not a great fan of cinema and tv, but a can enjoy a few films and tv series.

Also cooking and drawing play a very important role during my free time, but I would say that learning new foreing languages is one of the things a really enjoy the most, as I pointed out in my profile.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Germany