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Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
@ARNSTEIN
Member since 2008
CURRENT MISSION planting trees in the rain forrest studying piano learning Tango ABOUT ME I am both a sensitive person guided by emotions as an intellectual - I like the balance between a physical life outdoors, dancing and quiet time with massage, books and music PHILOSOPHY daoism: its better to ride the horse in the direction its going.
Interested in Dancing
Interested in Meditation
Fluent in German
Learning Italian
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I like the basic idea of couch surfing. and I had some very good experiences with it. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE some excellent
Music, Movies, and Books
Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Katie Melua, Pink Martini, Zaz, Toquinho, Vinicius de Moraes, Tom Jobim, Marisa Monte, Elis Regina; Ella Fitzgerald; Gershwin; Mussorgskij; Hildegard Knef; Kurt Weill; Pink Floyd favourite books are Hermann Hesse, Pablo Neruda, James Lovelock, "The revenge of Gaia"; Nicholas Stern, "The Global Deal"; Tom Robbins, "Jitterbug Perfume" and "Skiny legs and all"; Francois Lelord; Osho, "the Book of the Secrets" Vol. I to V; Saint-Exupéry; John Updike, "Brazil"; Paramahansa Yogananda, "The autobiography of a Yogi"
One Amazing Thing I've Done
driving from Austria to India with 4 friends at age 17 - Iran, Afghanistan, Karakorum, Khyber Pass, heavy dysentery in Delhi, floods in Pakistan - Vipassana meditation in Buddhist monasteries in Asia
Teach, Learn, Share
natural; idealistic with a sense of reality; crazy in a good natured sense; romantic; creative Languages like French, Spanish, Portuguese I would like to learn basics of Japanese, Hungarian, Chinese, Croatian, Russian
My Interests
playing piano, classical and improvisation playing tennis dancing Salsa, Walzer, Tango, Forró planting trees giving and receiving massage
