COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE amazing, except for a quite negative experience in brussels with an italian couchsurfer... but these things can happen everywhere! the project and the social nets that it can create are very... powerful. once you've discovered the beauty of CS, you become addicted!

music: "(you make me feel like a) Natural woman" by Carole King, and "Here comes the sun" by George Harrison; Franz Ferdinand; Blonde Redhead; Radiodervish; Egyptian pop books: (here is a top ten) Rijal fi shams (Gh. Kanafani); Orientalism (E. Said); Crash of civilizations over an elevator in piazza vittorio (A. Lakhous); I saw Ramallah (M. al-Barghuti); The Prophet (G. K. Gibran); The waste land (T. S. Eliot); Disgrace (Jm Coetzee); Chéri (Colette); 1984 (G. Orwell); A Room of One's Own (V. Woolf) movies: 8 e 1/2; Divorzio all'italiana, Pulp Fiction, b/w Italian movies, Woody Allen movies, Nanni Moretti movies