Please, check out my profile photo! There is me with my niece on the back. We were preparing to go to the market and sometimes I take her in one of those bags for children bought in Dali, China.She is my greatest love since the very moment that her parents said to me that I would be aunt, I was so happy! And I still be. I think on her every day, every time. I live in Barcelona but I travel a lot to Marco de Canaveses (a rural context city near Oporto, my home town) to see her.
Actually I love talk and play with children, however, in a professional level I only work with adults. Since 3 years ago I get involved with the photographic documentary universe or more in general with photography. I started as wedding assistant, then I began my personal social projects and recently I won an international photography contest. I was granted with a master degree scholarship. Since last Septembre until February I studied Photojournalism in Universitat Autònoma Barcelona. Before that I studied Archeology and before Classic Music (double bass) and Sculpture. Check out my personal projects and travel photography web http://cecidef.com/ and my wedding/love Barcelona photography site http://www.barcelona-photographer.eu/.
My other passion are the animals and vegetales, the Mother Nature in general, The Earth Planet, I mean. I love to kiss my dogs as a tree or the Atlantic Ocean .
My name is cecília de fátima, my family call me sissi and my professional nickname is ceci de f (I always write my name on lowercase), and I am a portuguese citizen of the world.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am on Couchsurfing for several reasons. I have a flat in a local and traditional neighbourhood on Oporto's downtown that I only use when I am there. Usually I spend my time in Barcelona where I work as photojournalist at the city newspaper El Periodico http://www.elperiodico.cat/ca/, and as wedding/love photographer http://www.barcelona-photographer.eu/

My flat is amazing (at least for me, maybe you will not share my opinion), inside and outside. I mean that inside is beautiful, still conserve old decor, is spacious, full of sun light and cosy, and outside you have great views to Douro's River.
Is a shame that most of time my flat is not used, is a waste!
On another hand as a citizen of the world I want to spend the rest the time of my life travelling and Couchsurfing is a great oportunity to know local people, habits and traditions and helps to spend less money.

Interests

Red wine, coffee, anthropology, history, archeology, music, dance, ecology, psychology, psychomagic, magic, the inconciencious universe, coincidences, people with a hard life but still happy

• animals
• cats
• dogs
• books
• photography
• documentaries
• dancing
• wine
• red wine
• coffee
• clothing
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• magic
• music
• anthropology
• archeology
• cartography
• ecology
• history
• psychology
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Portuguese popular music

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Be helped by a traditional vietnamese minority family while our motorbike was broken on the Northern Viet Nam Mountains

Teach, Learn, Share

Evreything I can

What I Can Share with Hosts

Towels, sheets, blankets, toilet paper, soap, some clothes (especially for cold), music instruments, city maps, toys for children, paper for drawing and painting, books for read (just for read, can not be taken away!), plates, cups, and machine coffee and the coffee.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Laos, Portugal, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, Spain