COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Although I joined Couchsurfing long ago, it was only in 2013 I decided to give it a try. I was going to spend my vacations in Argentina all by myself and wanted to meet people while travelling. And I have met very interesting people through Couchsurfing and have had only positive experiences since then, which encourages me to keep using it and now also to make my own couch available for surfers.

well, this is just hard... I'm afraid the list would be endless! some writers: joão guimarães rosa, graciliano ramos, manoel de barros, joão gilberto nöll, clarice lispector, ana cristina césar, jorge luis borges, julio cortázar, gabriel garcía marques, eduardo galeano, pablo neruda, albert camus, marguerite duras. alejandra pizarnik, chimamanda ngozi adichie, elena ferrante, margaret atwood. music: vinicius de moraes, gilberto gil, caetano veloso, maria bethânia, cartola, tim maia, ney matogrosso, villa-lobos, mercedes sosa, jorge drexler, cesaria évora, mayra andrade, yael naim, ismael lo, buena vista social club, duke ellington, ella fitzgerald, nina simone, david bowie, and, yes, all the tacky sticky pop songs :). cinema: glauber rocha, joaquim pedro de andrade, eduardo coutinho, walter salles, karim aïnouz, marcelo gomes, juan josé campanella, lucrecia martel, pablo trapero, asghar farhadi, jafar panahi, abdellatif kechiche, kiarostami, michael haneke, agnès varda, ken loach, nanni moretti, and so many others, especially in Argentinian, Iranian, French and Romenian cinematographies.