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Bogotá, Bogota D.C., Colombia
@MARIAPAULAL
Member since 2005
CURRENT MISSION Always interested in knowing people that are also interested in knowing as much about the places where they go. ABOUT ME Right now my interests are cinema, new media arts, history among othes. I did a MA in Media Studies and a Documentary Certificate in NYC. I did my thesis about political violence and Media in Colombia, which is related to the History studies I was into. http://about.me/mariapaulalorgia
Interested in Art
Fluent in English
Learning German
2 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I've hosted here in Colombia and surfed in Latin America and Europe. Check this out:
Music, Movies, and Books
Music: many, but here are some: Lali Puna, Pixies, Primal Scream, Blur, Indochine, Cafe Tacuba, Bowie, etc. Movies: La haine, Adaptation, 24 hour party people, Old Boy, Det nya landet, Zelig, Ed Wood, the wind that shakes the barley etc. Books: Camus, Auster, Roth, Cioran, Pessoa etc
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Living in NYC
Teach, Learn, Share
Each country is not always what it seems, so my commitment with you (as I was born in Bogota) is to show you what I consider the interesting/real side of Colombia.
My Interests
I like Music, books, photography, history, politics, traveling, walking, biking, journalism, photojournalism, documentaries...