I am a philosophy student at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland. I engage in dialogues with professors which inevitably happen in class because there is no strict guide we follow, and my friend Ilias and I are the only students. I like playing sports. In Colombia I played a lot of football and now in Poland I play a lot of basketball. I have a team, made up mostly of Ukranians and Georgians. We often play, in summer once a week but in winter less regularly because it is demotivating that we have to pay for an indoors court.

Soy un estudiante de filosofía en la Universidad Católica de Lublin en Polonia. Entretengo diálogos con profesores los cuales suceden inevitablemente porque no hay guía estricta que seguimos, y mi amigo Ilias y yo somos los únicos estudiantes.

Interests

• farmers' market
• catholic
• agriculture
• religion
• biking
• farming
• ping pong
• literatura
• thomas mann
• filosofia
• philosphy
• kombucha
• carpentry
• building things
• dostoevsky
• gabriel garcia marquez
• kierkegaard
• tibis
• tibicos

Music, Movies, and Books

Crime and Punishmnet, Brothers Karamozov, Demons (1872), The Magic Mountain, Life of Pi, The Road, Anna Karenina, El Olvido que seremos, La Oculta, Cien Años de Soledad, El Amor en los Tiempos del Colera, Crónica de una Muerte Anunciada, El coronel no tiene quién le Escriba, Del amor y otros Demonios, Historia Secreta de Costaguana, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat (1951), A Tale Tell Heart. You are welcome to look at my profile in Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/50419931-mateo-castro).
Close-Up, Braveheart, The Embrace of the Serpent, Birds of Passage, The Apartment, Fight Club, Babel (2006), The Revenant, Birdman, The Mission, Hunger, American Beauty, Short Term 12, Room, The Social Network, Steve Jobs, Moonrise Kingdom, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, The Sacrifice, Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life, The Squid and the Whale, Roma (2018), A Short Film about Love, Wild Strawberries, Winter Light, The Terminal, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Coraline, Up, The Road, Catch me if you can, Captain Philips, Monsters Inc, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke. Check out my profile in Letterboxd (https://letterboxd.com/maroca/).
Facundo Cabral, Silvio Rodriguez, Shakira (her old songs), Juanes (his old songs), Santana, Aterciopelados, Queen, Regina Spector, Cat Stevens.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have been a volunteer farmer in the States.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook (because I have done so and avoided restaurants in my two years and a half of studies), do bike maintenance, help you start a compost, share my tibis which I always carry with me and help in any particular need of yours.

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Colombia, Germany, Poland, United States