*****Santiago is a destination for many of you and my inbox gets quite full, so I am not able to answer to all of you. But if you are a real couchsurfer and really want to meet me because you feel like we have something in common or we both can learn a lot from each other, probably I'll have a mattress for you. Sorry for the rest and I hope you understand :) ******

Hey guys! :D

First of all, I am a real COUCHSURFER! I don't use this app as tinder neither to save money. I use couchsurfing because I really want to meet interesting and inspiring people to exchange opinions about ways of life and share my crazy farming/entrepreneurship ideas and dreams ;)

I am a typical Galician girl, with a strong accent speaking Spanish (and any other language), that cooks wonderful empanadas ;) and has a huuuge garden and lots of kiwis: https://www.workaway.info/172316174357-en.html

I love travelling since I did one exchange year in the States (Michigan), I was 16 back then and that year really opened my eyes. And no, my parents aren't rich and didn't pay for it, I worked my ass off to earn a scholarship (I used to be a good student, but that has changed a lot).

Every summer I try to go on a new adventure, where I meet wonderful people and learn a lot of things. So far I've worked in Colorado, two summers in Germany, I did an internship in Portugal working with diatoms and silica nanoparticles and worked in a farm in France making amazing goat cheese :D I also did Erasmus in Germany, so now I guess I should expand a little bit more my travel destinations as I can finally speak English and German (or at least I think I do).

I've also lived (and still live) in Santiago de Compostela with many foreigners and had wonderful experiences with them since I started University. My parents have a house in Santiago and I am the landlord, so during these years I made some really good friends at the flat, specially one girl from Rome and another from Tampere and my little brother from Ivory Coast. Living here also helped me to mature and be a more handy person. It wasn't easy at first to be responsible for everything that happened in the house, make people (8 people, guys!!) feel comfortable, tell your older flatmates to clean and be the plumber of the house ;) I lived with people from Korea, Portugal, Lithuania, Hungary, America, Ireland, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, Germany, Mexico, Finland, Chec Republic, France, Chile, Colombia, Japan, New Caledonia, Morocco, Nigeria, Ivory Coast...so living in this house is like travelling without spending money :D

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I think couchsurfing gives you the chance to meet wonderful openminded people and travel in another way . I also think it is such an enriching personal experience for everyone.

Interests

• architecture
• design
• street art
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• cheese
• beer
• yoga
• pottery
• painting
• live music
• hiking
• kayaking
• surfing
• volleyball
• agriculture
• sightseeing
• art
• food
• nature
• biking
• street markets
• street food
• sunsets
• homemade food
• beer brewing
• acro yoga
• serigraphy

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: I like a lot of different types of music. I listen mainly to indie-folk, indie-rock and reggae. I used to listen to Annenmaykantereit, Opus Orange, Kakkmaddafakka and Mayra Andrade. Now that I am learning French I am crazy about French music, so I listen to French classics such us Georges Brassens and Édith Piaf, I also love la Rue Ketanou and Amadou et Mariam. I listen as well to a lot of old Samba from Brasil (Martinho da Vila and Beth Carvalho), italian music (alternative and sometimes Fabrizio de Andrè) and galician folk music.

Movies: Dallas Buyers Club and City of God.

Book: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Dancing muiñeira (a Galician tradicional dance) in the highway when the traffic was collapsed at the border of Austria.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you a little bit of the Spanish and Galician culinary. Galician folk dance, salsa, bachata, merengue and how to play the tambourine and maybe one song with ukulele.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Laughs, my travelling stories and a good Spanish meal :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Portugal, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Spain, United States