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Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany
@alessandrogifford
Member since 2014
I’m Ale, living in Berlin since 2018. 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!;)
Interested in Books & Literature
Interested in Cycling
Fluent in English
Learning German
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.
Music, Movies, and Books
Chopin Kiasmos Rival Consoles Bicep Fabrizio de Andrè Nils Frahms Rosa Anschütz Agar Agar Gidge 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) Anatomy of a fall (Justine Triet) Reprise (Joachim Trier) La Haine (Mathieu Kassovitz) The thin red line (Terrence Malick) Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade) Cold war (Paweł Pawlikowski) Aftersun (Charlotte Wells) Im Westen nichts Neues (Edward Berger) Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund) Trailer park boys;) 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) Determined - A life without free will (Robert Sapolsky) Looking for Spinoza (Antonio Damasio)
One Amazing Thing I've Done
While hiking in Ladakh I unintentionally ended up in a piece of land owned by dozens of stray dogs. I only realized the gravity of the situation when in the middle of this piece of land, when all these dogs started barking at me aggressively. The amazing thing is that I managed to get out of that situation without getting hurt (and without hurting any dog in the process).
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.
My Interests
Movies, discovering new music, reading, walking and being in nature, hiking in mountains, doing sports, camping, philosophy, sugar, sleeping, pictures of the past, data science, minimalism, breathwork, contemporary history, playing frisbee, 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, psychedelics.
