CURRENT MISSION

Circumstance will decide

ABOUT ME

I was born on a day of general strike. Since then, I've been keeping momentum.
Je suis né un jour de grève générale. Depuis, je continue sur ma lancée.

"In foreign cities
we make better use of our senses, we are bolder
in our intuitions. And after the soup and the warm
tea, going out into the street, we can discover
that we are still alive and that, after all,
we have never known any other condition.
This is the hour that reveals us.
And what we call reality
heads off with us in the same direction."
Rui Pires Cabral

"Em cidades estranhas
dispomos melhor dos sentidos, somos arriscados
nas nossas intuições. E depois da sopa, do chá
morno, ao sair para a rua, podemos descobrir
que ainda estamos vivos e que no fim de contas
nunca conhecemos outra condição. Esta é a hora
que nos representa. E aquilo a que chamamos realidade
segue connosco na mesma direcção." Rui Pires Cabral

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've already hosted nine Brazilians, nine Australians, one Tasmanian angel, two industrial engineers, a translator with long curly hair, five Germans, four ragazze from Rome, ten French people, one Manchu, three left-handers, a philosophy teacher gardener, an expert of Moroccan cuisine crazy about Bob Dylan, three South Americans living in Barcelona, two in Valencia, four people wearing glasses, two persons believing in homeopathy, ten couples in love, one person who snores, two chess players, one fan of Manchester United, one aquarellist, one fairy, three Sagittarius, five vegetarians. Nine of the people who stayed at my place had a first name which started with the letter A, one of them with the letter Z.

Interests

I am interested in autism, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Brazil, bullet chess, cinema, childhood, Drôme, dreams, unknown fruits and vegetables, the future of our little planet, guitars, India, the Isle of Skye, Japan, all the knights who say Niii, the bay of Kvarner, linguistics, literature, mountains, MPB, Musica Popular Brasileira, apparent randomness, number seven, Oulipo, pastry attacks(gloup gloup), people who are a window for the eyes of children, photography, poetry, psychology, radio, singing, teaching, bringing up a child, the humane voice, Werckmeister harmonies, what's happening in Colombia, Georgia, Myanmar, wine, words, writing lists.

• writing
• literature
• poetry
• singing
• photography
• wine
• walking
• movies
• chess
• teaching
• languages
• psychology
• mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I saw blind people walking in the streets, I saw a blooming tree, I saw a woman falling asleep.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've taught French as a foreign language to Brazilian, Burmese, Armenian, Cameroonian, Korean, Libyan, Mongolian, Lebanese, Malaysian, Ukrainian, Peruvian, Iranian, Azeri, Belarusian, Moldovan, Polish, Hungarian, Indian, Spanish, Estonian, German, Danish, American, Bangladeshi, British, Bulgarian, Canadian, Austrian, Slovak, Bosnian, Italian, Pakistani, Russian, Romanian, Kyrgyz, Turkish, Nigerian, Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese, Kazakh, Czech, Faroese, Thai, Cyprus, Egyptian, Serbian, Finnish, Indonesian, South African, Bruneian, Swiss, Maltese people.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Hungary, Scotland

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