CURRENT MISSION

settle in Sao Paulo for a year and half more, looking for

ABOUT ME

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I´m a Portuguese 26 y.old guy living in my third country and trying to set my life in a way that it could happen more often. For the next 1.5 year I´ll be in Sao Paulo and after that, who knows?

Although I get along with pretty much everybody, i think its hard to find a home, not just a house. Couchsurfers tend to be more open than average (just a feeling, actually) and this is why im using the site to find a home away from home.

STILL HAVE TIME? proceed ,)

You can read this as a list of clichés, but it is all true. You can ask my mom.

About me as a life lived.
The story of my life in three acts:
i was born in a small city (17000 ppl)and lived there until i was 18. I liked to imagine and make stuff and i studied arts from 15 to 18. Then I left to university.
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In university, I stayed on my own since then (im 26), first living in Aveiro, Portugal (2,5years) and then moving to Delft and Amsterdam in the Netherlands (2,5 years). I've met plenty of people from all places in the world and decided I wanted to travel more and learn more.
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The third act is starting now, as I step into this thing called "independent adult life" and try to live it up to my expectations.
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About me, as a person
Whenever there is something Im afraid of doing right now, I picture myself in my 50's with a gin in my hand saying "I did it...". This is nicely counterbalanced by the way i was brought up, rather politely. This means you don't have to be afraid to pick me up at the hospital after I fell while climbing some statue in your city. I don't do things that can interfere with others and I don't climb statues. I imagine you get the picture...
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Like a lot of people I like to read. I like to read about pretty much anything, but I suck in maths (I like to hear people talking about it passionately, though. Recently I've been reading geeky stuff (hp love craft and ray bradbury). Im somehow geeky, but im also very social.
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And, to keep it short and to the point I'm very tolerant i like adventures, challenges and trying new food (even if you tell me it tastes like napalm). I'm pretty creative and I love jokes. i will definetely try to pick up your language and i can teach you some of mine.
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I cook ok but im not a chef. I'm much tidier than before (when travelling, i pack very light and take up very little space). I'm ok to sleep in couches, mattresses and the occasional floor.
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I'm pretty happy with my life.

PHILOSOPHY

I think that most people are too anchored to the image they have of themselves. This makes them afraid of changing or admitting change for themselves (e.g. being impossible to talk to, afraid to risk new things, too judgemental).
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In my life, I make a conscious effort to try and see all points of view and make up my opinion. I do have strong opinions and can also be judgemental, Im normal, I suppose.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm very green in this, so I don't know much about how to participate besides hosting and be hosted. But I get a feeling that couch surfing has a tendency to become almost a life philosofy, so there are a lot of opportunities in the future, right?

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Nada!
Not yet, I mean..

Interests

Generally:
people, design, film, some politics, going out thinking nothing will happen and have great nights, the odd running session, languages, improving my cooking skills, drawing, reading. Learning random facts.

• arts
• design
• make up
• festivals
• dining
• cooking
• running
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• surfing
• boxing
• rock climbing
• business
• languages
• mathematics
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

Like many people, I don't think I read as much as I should, but when I do, I like to read distopian fiction, mostly. I'm also into these light economy/politics/psicology books (freakonomics, nudge, black swan, you get the feeling), but not that I read them all or anything.

For music the only thing I don't really like is heavy metal with skreeching vocals. Yeah, sure, britney spears and auto-tune R&B are also not my thing.
I like electro, indie, some good o'l rock, blues, bossa nova, plenty of lounge and recently been liking dubstep quite a lot.

Movies?
Hum..old movies mostly, but there's still a big list of them to see, obviously. Last one I saw, I think it was Yojimbo from Kurosawa

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I always have the feeling that I'm lacking in this section, but i've that story about missing a flight for 5 minutes and making friends at the airport to go in their fuel-less van to the nearest airport and almost missing a second flight. Or when I shared an hotel room with a stranger i met at the airport. Or the naked run I did through the cafeteria when I graduated. I traveled from the Netherlands back to Portugal in three weeks hitchhiking. I went to the Tomatina festival in spain from netherlands, by bus, only to make the rest of my way on my own. I had an mobile app startup business that never quite took off.
Im trying to start a male underwear business because funny boxer shorts are too expensive in Sao Paulo .

Teach, Learn, Share

Aha, nice question. Im into few things that I can share, namely Visual Facilitation, drawing, discussing business ideas (Im always doing this). I cook pretty decently, im sure we can learn things from each other on that subject

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