ABOUT ME ***Maybe I will answer you from a shared profile with my gf since I cannot always access to mine My name is Manuel (Manu) and I am from the north of Spain but living in Madrid with my gf and 3 more flatmates. After studying Chemistry and working on research in different countries, I had a big change in my life when I was 27 and I went to Chile where I spent more than 2 years collaborating in a humble school in Patagonia. I felt so satisfied with my life that I was thinking to stay there for ever but finally I came back and I taught in Spain and England till 2014 -Trying to teach not just the subjects but also important things for life, like the ones I learnt in South America...- We even founded a Charity: www.university4all.org But due to different reasons, things changed again and now I don't teach full time, but I run a serviced accommodation business in Birmingham (UK), and traveling as much as I can. I am doing the following blog: www.travel.gago.info where I want to give useful information about CouchSurfing and HitchHiking around the world. BTW, I´m 1,95 metres tall (6.5 ft) but I fit in any bed or maybe floor :) PHILOSOPHY - Many small people doing many small things in many small places can change the world - You must be the change You wish to see in the world (Gandhi)
Interested in Dancing
Fluent in English
Pioneer Badge
57 Vouches
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
As I said, I enjoy hosting, surfing, traveling, and participating in the local communities
Music, Movies, and Books
I'm just going to talk about the music I play with the guitar: Spanish and Latin american songs, and a bit of International hits
One Amazing Thing I've Done
As you know, the most exciting (In my humble opinion) thing I"ve ever done was those 2 years in a little island´s school in the south of Chile. At the University I was involved in so many organisations that once I had to be in 7 places at the same time :) I´m the honor president and founder of the Spanish National Society of Chemistry Students. I also had a European post at www.best.eu.org. I was democratically elected representative of the 35.000 students of my University in 2 European congresses and I founded a charity in Madrid with the help of other couchsurfers
Teach, Learn, Share
I can teach to play guitar, webdesign, computing, etc. One important thing I like to learn is about University scholarships around the world for our NGO scholarships database: u4all.org I like to talk about the sense of life, justice, etc.
What I Can Share With Hosts
Cooking, hanging out together, a meal in a restaurant, sharing experiences about hitch hiking and couchsurfing around the world, playing guitar, teaching basic salsa or kizomba steps...
My Interests
NGO´s, Education, Hitchhiking, Guitar, Dancing (I'm learning salsa, bachata, kizomba, merengue, tango...), Music, Web design, Cultural Exchanges, Justice, Ecology...
