HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I used to meet Csurfers who visited Genova, my home town, to show my wonderful native city. Now I meet CSurfers when I travel and I'm always happy to show the beauties of Melbourne and Victoria to visitors from overseas. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Before I joined CS, I was hosted by a great Polish couchsurfer and his family. I learnt a lot from that experience, both from the cultural and the human point of view. I met a lot of CSurfers when I lived in Moscow (who saved me from loneliness ;p thanks everybody) where this community is very active - congratulations! There I learnt a lot about CS spirit and I like it more and more. I've met a lot of wonderful humans through CS, with some of them we're still in touch, some have become Friends (if I had to find just a few words to describe what they all have in common, I'd say wise, warm, deep, alive), and we try to meet every few years somewhere in the world, despite the distance.

Movies: La vita è bella, The Best Offer, The Pianist, Almodovar in general, The Reader, any French comedy, La Dea Fortuna (and anything by Ozpetek). Books: The Prophet, L'Etranger, Resurrection, A Hero of Our Time, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Gomorra, Everything is Illuminated, El viento conoce mi nombre, Succede sempre qualcosa di meraviglioso.