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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Enjoy life
ABOUT ME
At the moment i think i do a lot of the following things: work, swim, dance, talk with people, i want to do more of this: travel, cook, dive, bike, hike, excersise (gym, swim, yoga), being in outdoors and more... i think people think im extrovert but looks serious (i think my glasses and work clothes help this point)....i like to have interesting conversations with people.
PHILOSOPHY
Be happy and when its possible make others happy. FUN FUN FUN
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
hosting, gatherings, free hugs, parties, giving info about merida and yucatan peninsula, even a conference and some polls about CS
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
SURFED
1cs Jean-Pierre&family:Dadizele
2cs Lieke, Peter and kids :Dendermonde
3cs Dirk :Dendermonde
Brussels--Sanja
Prague--Jeff
and many more...
HOST
from 2008-2011 about one a week (quite a lot)
from 2011-2015 about 4 a year :( (work doesn´t help with this )
MEETINGS/GATHERINGS
i´ve been in some CS meetings, some of them really nice, others not that much but always happy to meet ppl from the "community"... i want to attend more often to the local weekly meeting.
INTERESTING PARTICIPATION
Once i´ve been invited to participate in a panel to talk about my couchsurfing personal experience in an important antropology conference hahahaha
Interests
im interested in travel, sightseeing, play sports, watch movies, eat good food (when its possible :( ), learn more about México, about foreing people (different cultures and traditions)sciences, photography, cinema, languages, chistes, indigenas, natural products,......etc
- photography
- diy
- dancing
- dining
- cooking
- yoga
- partying
- electronics
- clothing
- movies
- traveling
- guitar
- outdoor activities
- cycling
- hiking
- backpacking
- scuba diving
- sports
- swimming
- dialects
- languages
- sightseeing
Music, Movies, and Books
many different kind of movies (hitchkook (psycho) , (La Vita e Belle), THE GODFATHER, THA SILENCE OF THE LAMB, HANNIBAL, RED DRAGON, LORD OF THE RINGS, CITY OF GOD, LA HERMANDAD DE LA GUERRA, LA LEY DE HERODES, MATANDO CABOS, ICE AGE, VECINOS INVASORES, THE OTHERS, LA LENGUA DE LA MARIPOSA, L´AUBERGE SPAGNOLE, ÁMELIE, REQUIEM, THE SHINING, CLOCKWORK ORANGE, NOS MIRAN, THE ELEPHANT MAN, SCARFACE, TRANSFORMERS, X-MEN, SILENT HILL, 007, SCARY MOVIE, FRAILTY..and some very interesting documentary...... all kinds of music(tengo un oido promiscuo jajajja)....
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Backpacking in Holbox island, Europe and the middle east.
Teach, Learn, Share
i can teach some things about Yucatan peninsula from my perspective (a proud but not in extreme Yucateco)...show you some beautiful natural/mayan places, tropical/local fruits (maybe exotic for you) As i love Spanish and its dialects i can teach you some and help you to understand some of the differences, and if you are a spanish speaker i would love to learn about the way you sepeak in your country/state.
I have a list of things i want to improve or learn, some are languages, scuba-diving, free-diving, dancing, playin guitar, mayan stuff, food, amateur electronics, growing food, organic products, DIY stuff, woodcarving, building cabanas etc etc
What I Can Share with Hosts
If we have time we can do a lot of things, share food sometimes, share experiences always
Countries I’ve Visited
Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I’ve Lived In
France, Mexico