CURRENT MISSION

to spread the L U V!!!

ABOUT ME

Ix-Chel likes: family, friends, smiling, bubbles, puppies & kitties, working for children, helping, laughing, loving & living intensely, learning about Autism, music, meeting interesting people, listening to sounds made by words or music, languages, traveling, nature, bargain shopping, etc, etc.

Bill likes: camping, kayaking, writing, road trips, National Parks, art museums, russian authors, hemorrhagic fevers, football, neurology and ALL THINGS MUSIC!!!

PHILOSOPHY

Simple things make you smile...
Do not judge someone if you dont know his lifestory...
Miracles happening as we speak...
To seek out and share beauty...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

sharing! oh yeah! We have hosted over 100 people since we started 4 years ago.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted tons of really cool people but have only couchsurfed once. World tour to begin soon... really soon...

Interests

Getting to know YOU & your country/city.

• arts
• writing
• beauty
• shopping
• traveling
• music
• kayaking
• camping
• soccer
• languages
• road trips
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

IX-CHEL LIKES:

Books: The Perfume by Patrick Suskind, Life of Pi, Sophia's world, Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela, The curious incident of the dog in the night-time... I have read some books but I am sooo bad remembering the titles!! arrrghh

Music: as long as it is not too much punk, rap or heavy metal, I am ok with it. Specially music from Africa, Middle East, Latin american, pop, rock, electronic, bhangra...

Movies: One that I really LOVE is Le Fabuleux destine d'Amelie Poulain, Lars & the real girl, Amores Perros, Murderball, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, 500 days of Summer, Slumdog millionaire!!!, Paying forward, Stardust, Nacho libre, etc.

BILL LIKES:

About Schmidt, Amelie, American Beauty, Big Fish, Clerks, Dark Knight, Departed, Eternal Sunshine, Gladiator, Glengarry Glenross, Godfathers, Good Will Hunting, Holy Grail, Ikiru, Jean de Florette, King of Kong, Lars and the Real Girl, Last Samurai, Life is Beautiful, Magnolia, My Dinner With Andre, No Country, Oldboy, Once, Piano, Pulp Fiction, Quiz Show, Revolutionary Road, Road To Perdition, Sea Inside, Shine, Silence of the Lambs, Sling Blade, Slumdog, Station Agent, Sting, There Will Be Blood, Tombstone, Usual Suspects. All Woody Allen. Most Herzog, Hitchcock, Burns, Coens and Moore.

As far as music goes, I only listen to Justin Bieber.

And when I pick up a book, I like Oliver Sacks, John Krakauer, Wallace Stegner, Richard Preston, Henry James, Turgenev and Dostoyevsky.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Glacier National Park,Montana, USA. Some Mexican states, New York city, the Oregon Coast, Vancouver B.C, etc.
Hanging out with Piers Faccini backstage!!!!!
Two things I didnt want to see: the huge 1985 earthquake in Mexico city and the gas explosions in Guadalajara in 1992.
Like I wrote before, simple things are the ones that make me smile so if I just see a kid smiling that makes me feel great.

Teach, Learn, Share

Languages I can help you with: Spanish, English, basic ASL, Portuguese (learning)
1st grade of Reiki
Experiences in life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Netherlands, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Mexico, United States

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