Because it is a nice way to meet new people and develop friendships. I believe I can learn best about a country and its culture by meeting the people who lives there.

Music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Galina Ustvolskaya, Arvo Pärt, Toru Takemitsu, Joaquín Rodrigo, Paco de Lucia, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Olivier Messiaen, Alfred Schnittke, Benjamin Britten, Krzysztof Penderecki, J. S. Bach. Movies by Andrei Tarkovski, Alexandr Sokurov, Lars von Trier, Thomas Vintenberg, Glauber Rocha, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi, Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Gus Van Sant, Charles Chaplin. Books by Samuel Beckett, Vilém Flusser, Fernando Pessoa, João Guimarães Rosa, José Saramago, Clarice Lispector, Manoel de Barros, Walt Whitman, Matsuo Bashô, Han Shan.