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  • 63 references 48 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish; learning Portuguese
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • working / living / doing nothing
  • Biomedical Engineering / Economics
  • From Milano, Lombardia, Italy
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About Me

PLEASE ONLY LAST MINUTE REQUESTS...
I travel a lot and can't plan my life more than 3/4 days in advance

CURRENT MISSION

to grow old without ever becoming an adult

ABOUT ME

I will need lots of talent to grow old without ever becoming an adult... and that's my aim...
So much yet so little to say about myself... just ask...
I'm a third culture kid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_culture_kid

PHILOSOPHY

-The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer

-I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual development, to leave off the eating of animals (Henry Thoreau)

-To call women the weaker sex is a libel; it is men's injustice to women. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? (Gandhi)

- All authority should be questioned

- Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something (Thoreau)

- Careers are demeaning twentieth century inventions, more a liability than an asset

- Men have become the tools of their tools (Thoreau)

- I'm not a nonconformist as nonconformists are conformists too, they just follow a different standard to set themselves apart from conformists (Mine, in the kitchen with dav and ely)

- No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive (Hank Williams Sr.)

- Some folks might say that I'm no good
That I wouldn't settle down if I could
But when that open road starts to callin' me
There's somethin' o'er the hill that I gotta see
Sometimes it's hard but you gotta understand
When the Lord made me, He made a Ramblin' Man (Hank Williams Sr.)

- It's a sad reflection on our society that something as basic as drinking water is now a bottled, branded consumer product

- If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian (Paul McCartney)

-The philosophy and poetry and religion of most mankind are not worth the dust of a puffball

-We quarter our gross bodies on our poor souls till the former eat up all the latter's substance

-I'd rather do nothing and be happy than do something I don't love just to impress others or because I'm told to

-As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I unfortunately am only traveling for work lately so, sent by my company to places chosen by them thus, no possibility to surf couches... only did it once and was a great experience... So, for the moment, only hosting...

Hosted:

- Laura and Monica from Canada
- Rafal and Dorota from Poland
- Disha and Nobi from Germany/India
- Thomas from France
- Alexander from Hong Kong
- Luca and Yannick from Germany
- Milda and Ramune from Lithuania
- Helene and François from France
- Bridgette from Australia
- Sara and Luca from Poland/Italy
- Sandrine and Clément from France
- Julia from Switzerland
- Carrie from the United States
- Annika from Germany
- Kristjan, Justin and Ewelina from Poland
- Ira from Russia
- Timo from Germany
- Päivi from Estonia
- Ien from USA / Korea
- Vincent from Netherland / Czech Republic
- Beatriz from Brazil
- Lindsay, Laura and Caroline from USA/Canada
- Amy from USA / China
- Roxana from Mexico
- Federico from Argentina
- Emin from Azerbaijan
- Ismael from Mexico
- Mo and Faryd from Hungary / Iran
- Michal and Silvia from Slovakia
- Özlem and Tuğçe from Turkey
- Ania and Aga from Poland
- Wehbe and Melissa from the Netherlands
- Magda and Suza from Poland
- Brenna from Brasil
- Gleb and Anastasia from Russia
- Nadia from Brasil
- Atefe from Iran
- Daniel and Justine from Nicaragua/France
- Geuk Chul from South Korea
- Belinda from Australia
- Mari and Ione from Spain
- Aga, Ania and Katya from Poland
- Nicole from Chile
- Olya and Dasha from USA/Ukraine
- Cansu and Cem from Turkey
- Yissel and Eugenia from USA/Dom, Republic/Mexico
- Henry from Germany
- Eçe, Anel and Alma from Turkey and Kazakhstan
- Mouna from Morocco
- Zuzana and Xavier from Slovakia and India
- Rossano from Italy
- Aika and Ana from Krgyzstan and Macedonia
- Julieth from Peru
- Natalia from Colombia
- Meadhbh from Ireland
- Gwang-il Won from Korea
- Jessica and Margareth from the USA
- Helene and Charline from France
- Christian from Argentina
- Rhet from the United States
- Pawel from Poland
- Sanaz from Iran
- Laetitia from France
- Ewelina and Jakub from Poland
- Lucie from Czech Republic

Interests

Daydreaming
Civil Disobedience (Thoreau is a genius)
Traveling
ARGENTINA
LISBON
Learning new Languages and discovering new cultures
History, Politics, Economics, Philosophy
Reading, Music and going to Concerts
Meeting and having a laugh with total strangers and random travellers
and random travelers
Hiking (Nature, hitch, whatever...)

  • animals
  • dogs
  • culture
  • poetry
  • concerts
  • vegetarian
  • drinking
  • politics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • economics
  • history
  • languages
  • law
  • religion

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Civil Disobedience, Life without Principle, Walden, Into the Wild, 1984, Animal Farm, Il Gioco Estremo, The Art of War, The Chamber, Beautiful Losers...

Music:
Hank Williams Sr, Leonard Cohen, Oasis, Aerosmith, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Gotan Project, Louise Attaque, Nick Cave, John Coltrane, Roy Harper, Bruce Springsteen, Jacques Brel, Buddy Guy, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Janis Joplin

Movies:
Into the wild, The Hangover, Wedding Crashers, Grown Ups, I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry, Anger Management, Taking Woodstock, Erin Brockovich, The Longest Yard, Moulin Rouge!, My Fair Lady, Love in the Afternoon...

TV Shows
Friends, How I Met your Mother, Will and Grace, South Park...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

-Slept in the park in Lucca after Leonard Cohen's amazing concert

-Sneaked into Tannourine Cedars Reserve with my friends by night in closing hours and had a great time there

-Escaped from my family in the algerian desert

-Saw a leopard in Tanzania

-Stayed awake for three consecutive days driving and fooling around Lebanon with italian friends

Many other things we can talk about when we meet

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Chad, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Martinique, Monaco, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, South Sudan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Lebanon

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