I love travelling, mostly inwards.

Reader, writer, tea drinker. I’m curious about how humans live, how they define themselves, and the subtleties of the world.

My best travel memories aren’t visiting places, but connecting with fellow humans over a cup of tea and a meaningful conversation, usually late at night.

My biggest goal in life is to fully experience it, with everything it has to offer.

Why do I travel? Because “travel was once a means of being elsewhere, or of being nowhere. Today it is the only way we have of feeling that we are somewhere. At home, surrounded by information, by screens, I am no longer anywhere, but rather everywhere in the world at once, in the midst of a universal banality - a banality that is the same in every country. To arrive in a new city, or in a new language, is suddenly to find oneself here and nowhere else. The body rediscovers how to look. Delivered from images, it rediscovers the imagination.”

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to see the world before I die. Not through a hotel's window, but living from the inside out.
What better way to experience culture than through sleep under someone else's roof?

Interests

• literature
• languages
• wandering
• latinoamerica
• flaneur
• just walking
• writing letters
• journalling
• edith piaf
• rock argentino
• finding the best tiny cafes

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Chopin, Hozier, Lana Del Rey, London Grammar, Leonard Cohen, Edith Piaf, Francoise Hardy, Stromae, Andrea Bocelli, Lhasa de Sela, El Cuarteto de Nos, Ana Tijoux, La Vela Puerca, Natalia Lafourcade, Rhodes, Calle 13, Léo Ferré.
Tambien me gusta el reggaeton (escucho una cantidad vergonzosa de Daddy Yankee) y el rock argentino.

Books:
Never ask a literature student what their favorite book is :)) There's just too many. My favorite writers include Ishiguro, Salinger, Paul Auster, Chuck Palahniuk, and James Joyce. also read non-fiction, psychology, and (good, non-trashy) self-help. You can always ask me what I’m currently reading.

Movies:
Kubrick and Lanthimos are the directors I’ve connected with the most.
However, my movies remain those involving a murder, a dead body and a preferrably handsome detective.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

This section has given me an existential crisis for weeks now. Maybe you can help me figure it out when we meet?

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm a person with strong opinions- you might disagree with me, but you'll for sure not be bored by the conversation. :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can make you a unique Iranian tea or a traditional dish, and talk about capitalism, feminism and the immigrant experience for hours.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, Iran