I'm a very curious person - I like to know that I don't know what awaits me in the future. Today I am here, but tomorrow I don't know. I like to laugh, reading, music, I appreciate the silence and I love cult cinema. My hobby is to build scenarios with miniatures (1:12). Currently I'm trying to learn Turkish because it's a very different language from mine (Portuguese) and I'm curious to know how it goes. And I like to know different cultures very much. It's very interesting to know different ways of thoughts. I don't like injustice. I think human being must learn to respect another human being, animals, plants, everything alive.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

When I discovered this site, I thought it was amazing - people who don't know each other offering their residence to another. That means having a better world with more love. So I'm proud to participate in couchsurfing.
"... E se tutta la gente si desse una mano, se il mondo finalmente si desse una mano allora ci sarebbe un girotondo intorno al mondo..."-Sergio Endrigo, "Girotondo intorno al Mondo";

"... Imagine there's no countries - it isn't hard to do, nothing to kill or die for and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace... " - John Lennon, "Imagine".

Interests

to know foreign people, films that show the culture of other countries, music from different places, typical food, literature, theater, to go to other countries.

• animals
• fish
• culture
• literature
• theater
• dining
• movies
• reading
• music
• fishing
• religion
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

books: (the last ones) - Asne Seierslad, "The Bookseller of Kabul" - ; Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, "Tuareg" - ; Khaled M. Abou El Fad, "The great theft" ; Orhan Pamuk, "Istanbul: Memories and the City".

music: I only don't like heavy music;

movies: I like mostly South Korean and Argentine movies, and films that show the culture of the countries. I like Politician movies as well as the Macedonian film "Before the Rain" (1994). I've just watched the Turkish film "Winter Sleep", by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. I really enjoyed the movie and the actors Serhat Kılıç and Nejat İşler's interpretations.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

May 24th, 2016 - I'll tell you about the vexation I passed, but before of that I want you to know something about me. Although I find valid any Religion that preaches tolerance, kindness, love, I was raised in the Roman Catholic Religion.
I was in the old town of Athens, Greece and I was curious about the Orthodox Catholic ritual.
I was in Monastiraki Square and I realized that there was a celebration in the old monastery ("μικρό μοναστήρι”).
I entered the church and sat on a bench. The church was beautiful and the singing entered the soul. After some time, I wanted to keep all that in memory, so I discretly started filming with my mobile. Suddenly a man touched my shoulder and gave me a hard look. I was very embarrassed.
April 2016 –
It had been a week since I was in Istanbul when I realized that I didn’t have to sail through Bosphorus River yet. Instead of turistic boats I prefer sailing with local people (the Istanbullus, in this case). In the same way that there are street buses and metro that connect the various neighborhoods of Istambul, there are traditional Istambul passager ferryboats serving cross-Bosphorus routes (İstanbul Sehir Hatları, that serves 45 docks throughout the metropolis). Through the Google maps I saw that I could take a ferry in Kabataş. So in Taksim Square Metro Station I took the Füniküler (a short underground funicular tram, that links Taksim Square station to Kabataş ferry docks). I was happy because I’d sail in a local boat (not a tourist track,). I didn’t have to buy a ticket because I had a İstanbulkart. I got the boat and while crossing the waters, I enjoyed to watch people; to stand against the railing in the deck, seeing the view (every time the rounded domes of mosques and their minarets appeared. What a delightful sight!) and even I had a glass of tea. At the next stop I noticed that everybody went out but not me nor two boys. I thought: " That's weird! Everyone going to the same place?!?!?" Someone asked me to come down and then I understood: "In every stop you need to go out, to buy a ticket again and then to get on the boat to the next stop" ... ;-)

Sept 2011 – Cartagena de Indias is a historical city in Colombia. Very nice city! My daughter, her husband, my son and I were there. I prefer to know the inhabitants of the town and not touristic places. So, I suggested it would be cool to take a public transit bus and not a cab. But as we didn't know the city, we went by taxi to a beach frequented by local people. Tourist is tourist – soon one can realize it and tourist means “money”. We sat in a tent for lunch and we explained to the owner that we had no cash. He said he accepted credit card. The fish was wonderful. The sea ... not so much. The water didn't invite us to enter it. But it was a very good afternoon. We laughed all the time and we ate a very good food. Time to pay the bill ... well, then the thing shook. The owner didn’t accept credit card. "But we told you before that we had no money. Only credit card ". "It was a misunderstanding" - he apologized. In fact, in that corner of Cartagena it’s unusual to appear tourists and the man wanted that we should spend the money in his tent. After that he’ll see what to do. My daughter is small, but she became very angry. He rose up from her chair and said in an unfriendly tone: “¿Usted está tomando el pelo a nosotros?” (it means: “Are you kidding ourselves?”). It was so funny to see a so skinny and small girl challenging that big man in his own language (we are Brazilians. We speak Portuguese, not Spanish).
To finish the story: two native men went with us by public bus to our hotel in order to pick up their money. My daughter said to me: “You wanted so much to go by bus. Now we are…”

I was 12 and was in the area of a house that was about five meters high. Looking over the wall, we could see that a four meters down there was a very high scrub. In order to show to my sister and a friend of us how I was courageous I jumped into the thicket. My heart raced. And if it had snake or spider?! But it wasn't time to think about that. I tried to wriggle out of the thicket until I reached the sidewalk. I was out of the thicket with the racing heart, but a smile pretending courage.
And I've learned do not be so silly again. = (

Teach, Learn, Share

I may teach you Portuguese and some Brazilian food.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Something about my country.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Colombia, France, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Portugal

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