CURRENT MISSION Encontrar el camino que me lleve a la felicidad real ------ Find the way that take me into real happiness ABOUT ME Soy amistoso, me gusta conocer gente nueva, y que sea buena onda. Me gusta vivir la vida con emociones, disfrutar de cada momento y también aprender de las tristezas que son muy importantes para poder analizar la vida desde otro punto de vista diferente al ordinario. ------ I am friendly, I like meeting new people, and that they are "good vive". I like living life whit emotions, enjoy every moment, and also learn of sadness that it is a really important to analysis life whit other point of view different from the ordinary. PHILOSOPHY Vivir siendo feliz y haciendo feliz a los demás. Ser feliz no implica gozar desmedidamente sino encontrar las cosas que de verdad lo llenan a uno en la vida ----- Live being happy and making happy the others. Be happy do not implies just enjoy superficially, it means finding things that really full you in life.

Algo imprescindible en mi vida es estar cerca del Mar , o quizás siendo más amplio el Agua (Ríos , lagunas , cascadas , arrollos ,etc) .El agua me tranquiliza , me seduce , me.convierte en niño y siempre me invita a crear .Soy un apasionado de las actividades al aire libre , el surf es el más practicado en estos últimos años de vida pero disfruto de cualquier práctica corporal ! Trato de estar con una sonrisa siempre, agradecido de la manera que vivo , el tiempo es tan valioso y pasa tan rápido que amar , jugar , la música es escencia lo otro es superfluo . Tengo ganas de recorrer el mundo , todo lo que mi cuerpo me permita , personas , culturas , idiomas , interpretar el mundo , eso es lo lindo a mi entender. Viajar es una de las formas de conocer y conocerse . Uno de mis viajes más locos , lejos y sorprendente fue Asia , increíble ; A partir de ahí la visión sobre la vida dió un Giro 360 grados . El movimiento es vida , Y cuando digo esto , Brasil se presenta con todo su esplendor. Playas , comidas , música y su gente . A nivel académico no me recibí aún , me faltan algunas cositas para recibirme de Licenciado en Educación Física , por el momento me dedico a enriquecerme humanamente, estudiando en la facultad de la vida , buscando ser un poco mas "libre" y concientes . La prioridad hoy es viajar , aprender a través de las experiencia. Ya tendré tiempo para terminar la licenciatura 🌍 Me gusta cocinar , es una necesidad. Somos lo que comemos , por eso la importancia. Me gustaría trabajar en cocina , para aprender a cocinar y comer rico . Jeje Ya lo hice en 2019 y fue una experiencia genial .

Hi! I'm Alana. I'm an artist and an art teacher. I'm a slow-traveling nomad... I just can't get enough of seeing our beautiful world. I love and adore nature, and you will probably find me out on a hike and making friends with the animals. I also love having experiences within other cultures that help me to look deeper within oneself. To me, traveling and living abroad are like trying on a new set of clothes... Sometimes you realize you just feel like a more authentic version of yourself in a qipao or a sari than you did in your jeans. :) I love learning and discovering new things, and am down to try nearly anything once. I'm an avid vegan cook who loves breaking into other people's spice cabinets. You will probably find me rummaging through your kitchen at some point (and as a guest, you are welcome to rummage through mine). I enjoy nerding out in museums (most notably art and natural history museums) or playing board games as much as I enjoy going out to a good restaurant or bar (however I rarely drink alcohol). I also love to go hiking, camping, and be in nature. In addition to teaching art, I also make art myself. Most of my work is painting and mixed media collage. Feel free to visit my website: www.alanatashjian.com I have a massive sense of wanderlust and all I want to do is see our big, beautiful world. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 2007: Moved to Boston and spent 7 years studying, living, and working (teaching art at a special education school for kids with severe autism). I also spent 1 year working at a tea shop and have a big passion for tea!! 2010: My first travels outside of the US, to live in India for a semester, studying abroad. Suffice to say, India has a part of my heart and I carry her beautiful colors and spirituality with me everywhere I go. After that, I was hooked on traveling and exploring other cultures! This was also my first experience Couchsurfing! 2014: I'd had enough of life in the US and left Boston indeterminately to set off on some new adventures. I first moved to Armenia to work as a volunteer and to reconnect with my ancestry and roots. I learned Armenian, lived with a host family, volunteered as an art therapist and as a contemporary art museum curator, and had an amazing year abroad. 2015: Working and living in Shanghai, China, teaching art at a high school level at an international school. An amazing experience to make my home, friends, and chosen family in China for 4 years! I also co-organized a vegan theme camp for two years at the Chinese regional Burning Man, which, needless to say, is quite a story, and a beautiful chapter of my life I miss almost every day! 2019: Left my job in China, went to the big Burn for the first time! Couchsurfed for 5 months with friends across the USA. Moved to Costa Rica for 3 months to work-trade as a vegan cook at a permaculture farm and educational center. Such an inspirational way to spend half of a year! 2020: Post-Pandemic! What a nightmare it has been for us travelers, hasn't it? I moved to Rio de Janiero, Brazil to meet up with my sweet lovely cat... and have been hoping to explore South America - Basically all my traveler and nomad dreams were put on hold indefinitely. 2021: FINALLY with the opening of the borders down here in South America, I have been able to move to Uruguay (my dream all along!) and see what magic this country holds for me here and why it has been calling my name. I am still discovering everything there is to love about Uruguayan culture and nature. :) Eventually I would like to create my own permaculture-based artist retreat center. Tell me if you have any connections to something like.... a sustainable development center, community based lifestyle, artist retreat, healing center.... I really have no idea where I will be, but I know I want to be doing something in this vein! Trying my luck at #manifesting ( haha :P )

CURRENT MISSION living right here right now ABOUT ME I left my parents home more than 18 years ago and start to wandering! First I went to other city in Poland 'cos wanted to study in a University. Next I was traveling around Europe and last 12 years I'm wandering in South America. Lately with my doughter. She is argentinian, 'cos she's born in Buenos Aires, but has Carribean- Slavic blood :) I like the streets so I make some handkrafts, jugling and hichhiking (this is when there is asphalt) and trekking or just be myself (when there is jungle :) when I have to work in da capitalist system I do some social proyect, working like a chaperone in TV productions, working lika a guide and for some moments like a bartender etc. I like to work with the kids and often I did proyect exchenging my job for food and place to sleep. I don´t like money to much... PHILOSOPHY if you are living good today don´t worry about tomorrow