ABOUT ME

Professor, Political Science, Sociology, Rio de Janeiro State University
Woodworker

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like very much to travel and to meet people, see what comes out.
Philosophy: "Furikawari"

Interests

Literature, cinema, playing go , chess, cooking (mainly Italian food), woodworking, traveling
Consulting I Ching with the traditional yarrow stick method
Shiatsu, Qigong

• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• music
• science
• sociology
• nature
• china
• italy
• japan
• cosmology
• taoism
• qigong
• shiatsu
• naturismo
• reading novels
• architectures
• identities

Music, Movies, and Books

Kurosawa, Tarantino, Visconti, Fellini, Kubrick, etc. etc.
Science and cosmology books
History (Judt) and others
Jorge Luis Borges, Yasunari Kawabata, Kazuo Ishiguro, Vassili Grossman, Antonio Gala, Andrea Camilleri...
Yang Jwing-Ming
Mantak Chia - Michael Winn
Napoleon Chagnon about anthropology
Peter Sloterdijk
Sabine Hossenfelder, Luc Julia, Angela Collier, Matt O´Dowd - PBS Space Time...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbing Huayna Picchu and the still existing Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia (Chacaltaya in the Bolivian Andes (16°21.014'S, 68º07.886'W, 5240 m a.s.l.). .
Sleeping inside Macchu Pichu in the roofed space in the entrance, and waking up to see the rising sun
Most bizarre and queer experience: to travel in the load box of a truck in the North of Argentina with a load of salted cow hides!

Teach, Learn, Share

Talk, talk, talk...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Languages, information about Rio, travel tips. Sometimes company for cultural activities, a walk, or a drink, cooking, drinking caipirinhas, going to Samba Schools events and to hear samba at Lapa and Downtown.

USEFUL INFO:
Only formal CS requests will be considered.
Requests not including my name and/or showing that the potential guest did not read my profile will not be usually answered.
Friend requests are available only for previous guests.

IMPORTANTE:
Sólo pedidos formales via CS serán considerados
Pedidos que no incluyan mi nombre y/o que evidencien que el potencial huésped no leyó mi perfil no serán generalmente respondidos
Friend requests disponibles solamente para quienes han sido huéspedes

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Monaco, Netherlands Antilles, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Japan