because it's a nice opportunity to meet people from different backgrounds and nationalities as well as getting the opportunity to discover hidden sides of the places when visiting or sharing them with visitors when hosting

music: in love with the radio, always trying to discover and listen to new things. grew up with in indie, alt rock music and fond of ska, reggae, blues but getting into a bit of electronic as well and curious about jazz (although i don't know much about the latter). really love ethnic music as well as socially and politically committed music in italian, spanish and portuguese. movies: indie and international movies, basically most of non-hollywood ones featuring in festivals and many more. books: i mainly read fictions, mostly from really old or dead writers, not as a conscious choice but every time this happen to be the case! trying to pick authors from different and varied nationalities as a chance to get an insight into foreign cultures.