COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Through couchsurfing the most amazing things have happened. I met one of my best friends here in Paris in Buenos Aires when she stayed at my place. And when I came here and was completely new to everything she meant such great support, I stayed at here house the first fifteen days when I had nowhere else to go. I can't be greatful enough with couchsurfing.

Once at Isla del Sol, Bolivia, the carnival was going on from very early on in the morning. When me and my friends woke up the band was already playing at the townsquare (which was really a small football field). We got up and stayed there watching how things would slowly develop (the Cholas arriving and sitting altogether in a circle, the band getting drunk, the dance starting, the kids playing around). The band played the same song over and over during almost the whole day, but the atmosphere heated up, after every song, after every dance. The band would slowly lose the beat as they drunk more and more. Suddenly the lights went off in the whole island. We could see thousands of stars like never before in my life. The locals started leaving the square and head for small house among the fields. We followed them up to the point where they got inside what we thought was private property. Wishing to continue being with them but trying to be respectful at the same time, we waited for a while. Then a kid came out and told us we were invited to come in, there would be free cigarettes and beer. We had been the only ones invited. It was the prize for our patience and lovely involvement. Minutes after we were dancing with the locals and drinking with them. A friend of mine was asked for marriage and the spiritual guide prophetized my friends would marry each other in 2013.