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Overview

  • 26 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning French, Spanish
  • 45, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • illustrator and art educator
  • degree in architecture
  • From Lisbon
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

My big mission is to feed my curiosity about unknown and keep doing what I really like to do!

ABOUT ME

I love new experiences, new cultures, new people, new points of view, so i just love to travel, but i don´t like to be a tourist in a place, actually i try to avoid touristic hot spots. I like to in a way be part of the place, to participate, to live inside of local community...I am a very simple person, I only need some squares meters do sleep, a friendly hand and smile to give me some tips about the city or the country when i travel.

PHILOSOPHY

follow my ideas, follow my instincts, my intuition, life is to short and it´s really a blessing to be alive, so you must fell comfortable and in peace with the present, acepting the past and dream your future beyond reality!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can offer a hand, show the city where I am living, and if I have: a couch.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The best! I am an active member for 4 years.

Interests

First, of course: LIVING and then goes for the endless list: reading, painting, writing, bikes, fruit, nature, nature sports, ice-creams, observation, mountains, deserts, books, colors, artists, train stations, bookshops, illustrations, animation movies, theater, travels, windy days, sweet secrets, dance, indie and folk music, surprises, ecological issues, summer days...and the sea, and everything we can do in the seashort...and so many other things!

  • writing
  • books
  • theater
  • illustrations
  • dancing
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • painting
  • music
  • folk music
  • cycling
  • sports
  • animation
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

One of my favorite movie is Gabehh, an iranian movie about nomad tribe that use the carpets to tell stories, almost every movie from Emir Kusturica and Tim Burton, the amazing world of Michel Gondry, the animations from Quay Brothers and off course the delicious movies from Jean-Pierre Jeunet...
For books its just a long list ... I love words as much as images and also the paper texture and smell, so reading it´s really a pleasure...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

An amazing thing: to fell that sometimes in my community projects, I can make a difference with my actions and my words, my books.
I would love to find a group of nice and adventurous people to make a trip by bike around the world doing humanitarian work with stories and books somewhere in the world!!

Teach, Learn, Share

Whatever i know its a pleasure to share...

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