Ig: @fabthegypsy

Ok, so. This is always the most difficuly part. I studied Neuroscience, but wanted to be an archeologist and a physicist and a novelist. Still in time to be a novelist, though. Im trying to say that Im utterly indecisive: I would like to do everything, thats way I am constantly in a hurry. Then, I am untidy, incoherent, a little bit big-headed, and weird. But also talkative and curious, very curious, about everything, just like a baby. Yes, I do have ADHD.

Things I hate: hot greasy stuff on my skin, annoying cats, big-headed people, superhero movies, Nicholas Cage movies, most Hollywood movies, the pizza you get outside Italy with a creepy yellowish cheese that they claim its mozzarella but its not.

Things I love: people, Italian food, Greek food, Belgian waffles, authentic Chinese food (not that greasy overfried crap you usually get outside China), exotic food in general, exotic stuff, old towns with narrow streets, old builings, old libraries, dogs, frogs, museums, art galleries, the smell of loose tobacco, the bright colour of moss on rainy days, the even white of snow.

Current mission: take it easy, which is actually very difficult.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

People like to brag about not being tourists but travelers, yet most of them don't know it is a citation from "The sheltering sky." Here is the citation:

"He did not think of himself as a tourist; he was a traveler. The difference is partly one of time, he would explain. Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler, belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly, over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home."

Interests

Reading, writing pretentious stories, indie movies, indie music, techno parties, painting colors, streetware fashion, artsy stuff in general, nerdy videogames, travelling (SERIOUSLY?!), hiking in God-forsaken lands, swimming, diving, photography, yoga, tai qi, meditation, capoeira, learning new things.

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite bands/singers: Cocteau twins, Dead can dance, Sigur ros, Arcade fire, the Cranberries, Nico, Marina & the diamonds, Aurora, Lykke li, Mitski.

Favorite film directors: Terrence Malick, Paolo Sorrentino, Lars von Trier, David Lynch, Bernardo Bertolucci, Quentin Tarantino, David Cronenberg.

Favorite books: the waves - Virginia Woolf; the book of disquiet - Fernando Pessoa; the unbearable lightness of being - Milan Kundera; 1984 - George Orwell; a fortuneteller told me - Tiziano Terzani, Alcyone - Gabriele D'Annunzio.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Took part in a shaman ritual in Tuva republic (Siberia).

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach what I know, learn what I dont.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I am seriously chatty, could talk for ages about things I am passionate about (they are many and very random).

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam, Åland Islands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, United States