HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I've just joined. I love to trave1 as much like a local as possible and meet people from different cultures. I hope to meet like-minded people and share experiences and learn from them. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I have surfed on friends' couches in the UK, Australia, Canada, St Thomas, Puerto Rico many times in the past 15 years.

Groundhog Day, anything by Almodóvar, Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, City of God, Il Postino, Como Agua Para Chocolate, Y Tu Mamá También, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Magnificent Seven, Rashomon, Pulp Fiction; Bossa Nova, Jazz, Reggae, Salsa, Bluegrass, Blues; James Lee Burke, Carl Hiaasen, Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Gabriel García Marquez, Laura Esquivel, Carolina García Aguillera, Pablo Neruda, Laurence Sterne, Alexandre Dumás, Harry Turtledove, Poul Andersen, Mark Twain, Malcolm Gladwell, Thomas Freidman