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Cachoeiras de Macacu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
@gabriel-valdetaro
Member since 2016
I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and grew up in Paraty, surrounded by nature and by the beach. I currently live in Rio and I'm finishing my degree in Biological Sciences here. Beyond biology, my great passion in this world is Kung Fu and all the amazing philosophy envolved in it. I feel like my purpouse in life is to find a connection and balance between ecology and spirituality. I'm really into Zen Buddhism and Taoism too. I currently work in an Algae Research Laboratory (w/ zooxanthellaea) in the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. I'm a Kung Fu practitioner for 4 years and Tai Chi Chuan practitioner for 1.5 years now, and I help my teacher in a Social Project where I teach Kung Fu to kids. I'm very open minded, always wanting to learn and to help not only people around me, but the world itself. I'm vegan and I try to live life in simple ways.
Interested in Environmentalism
Interested in Hiking
Fluent in English
Learning Chinese
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
I love to travel and to meet people. I think it's amazing this solidary idea of people helping each other while traveling. It's a good way to save money and to know other people and create connections, to explore the local culture, etc!
Music, Movies, and Books
Books: Beat Generation (Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc). Chinese poetry. Zen Buddhism. Oriental Studies. Oriental Philosophies. Agroecology. Ecology. Politics. Music: A lot of 80's and 90's alternative (smashing pumpkins, hole, weezer, pixies, sonic youth, nirvana), indie music (strokes, mgmt, lorde, arctic monkeys), surf punk and lo-fi (beach fossils, FIDLAR, alvvays, wavves, best coast, tennis, sandy alex g, diiv), classic rock (led zeppelin, janis joplin, pink floyd), punk (the clash, ramones, sex pistols) and pop punk (blink 182, good charlotte, sum 41). I absolutely love brazilian music too, speacially samba and bossa nova (chico buarque, caetano veloso, vinicius de moraes, jorge ben jor, novos baianos) I love Andean music too.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Backpacking South America (Bolivia, Chile and Peru) Training Kung Fu in China and backpacking China Graduate in Biological Sciences! Almost black belt in Kung Fu =)
Teach, Learn, Share
Buddhism/Taoism Biology Kung Fu / Tai Chi Surfing Agroecology Music (Brazilian music) Languages (Portuguese) About my country (Brazil) and Latin America =)
My Interests
Martial arts, Kung Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, Philosophy, Balance, Spirituality, Taoism, Zen Buddhism Biology and everything related to the study of nature. Agroecology, Organics, Veganism. Music, Books, Cultural Exchange, People, Beer, Celebrations Arts, Painting, Chinese Paiting, Photography, Analog Photography, Film Photography
