I’m Ale, living in Berlin since 2018. I consider myself lucky, as with time I got to love Berlin more and more and I am also very stimulated by what takes most of my awaken time: a PhD in computational vision neuroscience.

I see myself as a rather honest and straightforward person, realistic, non-dogmatic, easy-going. I really like thinking and talking about social/personal/emotional topics, and connecting with people while sharing life stories and thoughts. And I also much appreciate humor!;)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

In the past, while I was still living in Montecchio Precalcino with my mother and younger brother, my mother had a Couchsurfing profile and we hosted several people from all over the world for short (two or three days) and long (some weeks) periods. This gave me many nice memories, and so I started using Couchsurfing myself during my university years.

Interests

I love watching movies, discovering new music, reading, walking and being in nature, hiking in mountains, camping, philosophy, data science, minimalism, playing frisbee (learning some freestyle at the moment), Sunday pancakes, doing yoga, swimming in lakes and rivers, sunbathing, talking and listening to people to connect with them, bullshitting and laughing, cooking, learning, getting slightly stoned, editing images with GIMP, outdoor raves, drinking coffee, psychedelics.

• books
• electronic music
• outdoor activities
• mountains
• laughing
• talking
• frisbee
• listening
• olive oil
• walking/hiking
• massaging
• cooking/eating
• gaga dancing
• arthouse/independent cinema

Music, Movies, and Books

Chopin, Kiasmos, Rival Consoles, Bicep, Fabrizio de Andrè, Nils Frahms, Nightwish, Metallica.

Dogville (Lars von Trier), Nine months (Márta Mészáros), The great beauty (Paolo Sorrentino), The double life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Scenes from a marriage (Ingmar Bergman), Apocalypse now - Redux (Francis Ford Coppola), Mid 90s (Jonah Hill), The Before trilogy (Richard Linklater), The big Lebowski (Coen brothers), Bad luck banging or looney porn (Radu Jude).

One hundred years of solitude (Gabriel García Márquez), Sapiens: a brief history of humankind (Yuval Noah Harari), The ego and its own (Max Stirner), Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre), The selfish gene (Richard Dawkins).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Found three flats in Berlin in less than one year!

Teach, Learn, Share

Guitar, piano and music theory
Italian/English language
How to cook amazing food
Computer programming
Neuroscience
Yoga
How to properly throw that frisbee;)

What I Can Share with Hosts

My attention and interest.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Italy, Poland, United States