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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
To live observing nature underneath the built world and its relationship to the human experience.
ABOUT ME
I'm a freelance journalist specialized in sustainable design, green lifestyle and culture. I write for different outlets and projects. One of my latest is a fanzine series about the seasons and how we relate to weather/climate. I'm also a ballet and contemporary dance apprentice.
Things I enjoy: biking, cultural and music events, farms, animals, amazing vegetarian food, trying to make sense of life in conversations with strangers.
PHILOSOPHY
Choose who you want to be everyday and act accordingly.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Never hosted people but have had coffee and drinks with many surfers and have had the best time.
Interests
Sustainable design, green lifestyle, bicycles and biking, recycling, vegetarianism and vegan life, art, travel, nature, animals, books, writing. I've taken Contemporary Dance lessons for three years and Ballet for 1,5 years and have developed a deep love for these art forms.
- animals
- arts
- culture
- writing
- books
- design
- dining
- coffee
- vegetarian
- vegan
- boating
- traveling
- cycling
- freelancing
- journalism
- ballet
- contemporary dance
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Office Space, Sabado, High Fidelity, Before Sunset, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind, Being John Malcovich, Reality Bites, Toy Story, Up in the Air.
Music: I like folk rhythmic music like Iron & wine, Calexico, Talking Heads/David Byrne, and also really like hip hop, and have fun with commercial pop music.
Books: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace, Cheryl Strayed, George Saunders, Alice Munro, Nora Ephron, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Italo Calvino, Dostoyevsky, and many more.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Sailed to Easter Island with 13 strangers on a boat studying plastic pollution in the South Pacific. Spent two weeks with a broken bone in my hand after a bad movement on the boat.
Traveled from Paraguay to Venezuela by land for six months, including three days by boat to Bahía Negra in the frontier between Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia.
Took care of pumas and jaguars in Bolivia.
Spent new year's eve in Rio de Janeiro.
Teach, Learn, Share
I can teach both Spanish and English. Some concepts of writing and editing. I know a lot about sustainability. I'm pretty good at building websites with Wordpress.
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela
Countries I’ve Lived In
Argentina
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