I’m an easy going person, lively but sad sometimes and I embraced it. I am searching to live a meaningful and simple life in this consuming and chaotic world. I wanna be a writer when I grow up. :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet new people and practice French and Spanish (maybe some Catalan?) and improve my English (my life long learning project is to learn well these languages and maybe others). Maybe going to Italy 🇮🇹 to learn Italian and order my own pizza and gelato in Italian.

Interests

I love eating new food! I fell in love with paella and sangria, vermouth por favor, gracias, o último país que morei, 🇪🇸 Eapaña, t’estimo.

I cook (not very well) but love the time in the kitchen with jazz, a glass of wine and burned food (mine hehehe).

I have always had my apartment by the beach in Brazil 🇧🇷 on the air bnb, why? Money ? As well but also because I love meeting new people that are eager to see another world and not just their own world.

• coffee
• music
• traveling and meeting new people
• books,

Music, Movies, and Books

Films: Belle and Sebastian (Any Nicolas vanier film) , before the sunset trilogy, About love, begin again, Once, Her, a beautiful mind, forest gump, MatriX, Marvil films, The pianist, The notebook, The count of monte Cristo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, tree of life, Amelie, interstellar (or any other film of Nolan brothers and the list goes on. I love lists.
Also I love Indian, Turkish , Spanish films, Almodóvar, count me in. I love international films, including the USA hehehe 🇺🇸✨❤️

Books: cem anos de solidão, Guimarães Rosa, this kind of literature. I still read in the metro. Although I read intr stinks best sellers abs countries authors I am still a John Grisham fan reader.

Music/
music from different countries, including mine.. I have a music symbol tattoo on my shoulder and I can play guitar and I learned by myself . I played on the streets while living in Spain and in a delusional moment I felt I was a singer. Music stirs my souls.

Drinks: coffee everyday, tea in a cold day, wine, beers (Guinness is my favorite) but coquetéis 🍸 have my attention. Have you tried Brazilian caipirinha?

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I’ from Brasil and I have lived (working ) in South Africa, England, France, Spain and Canada and Now I moved (after having my children gone to college I thought was a time for a fresh start (specially after two difficult pandemic years) and I chose the 🇺🇸. I arrived in NYC last march, 2022. I confess that has been the hardest place so far in my life to make new friends, so I am here to meet new people because I love knowing new life stories and discovering the city. I’m quite well by myself but sharing is amazing as well. I live in Astoria, Queens, but I get around NYC quite easily now.

Teach, Learn, Share

I graduated in literacy and teaching and I hold some titles on that but they don’t define me, I am still a farm girl from Brazil’s country side that loves homemade brea abs get excited when planning a trip.

I teach English in my country (Brasil) as a profession and now I have a digital school which allows me to be anywhere in the world as wherever I am I make it my classroom.
@susie.ingles

What I Can Share with Hosts

My time, good vibe, my silence sometimes, some laughs, great conversation and honest friendship . I teach Portuguese for foreigners (it’s also offered in my digital course) but I teach you for free through a friendship based conversation.