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Overview

  • 5 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Spanish
  • 74, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • EFL Teacher in High School
  • Retired Civil Engineer
  • From Oaxaca City, Oaxaca, Mexico
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Live in perennial awe

ABOUT ME

Married to a French woman, with three children, two in university and one in Elemmentary School. We lived in an isolated mountain farm in Southern Mexico growing coffee there for many years. We came back to the city to educate our children and our dream is to go back to live there. I love reading, painting, cooking and meeting people from diverse origins and orientations. I think you can always find something in common. Human beings are for me awesome creatures! But at times they do not know it!

PHILOSOPHY

I think that living is a magnificent enterprise. Sharing this time with somebody is so wonderful. Good relationships are the reward to being open and honest and to respect our mates points of view. Being able to go deep into someone without hurting him/her is mind blowing for me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Offering help wherever I can

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

When I was 21 I travelled all over Europe and the Middle East without any money and I always got a place to stay from many great people. I was once in jail in Dubrovnick for sleeping in a city park but a policeman took me to his house and he gave me shelter and food. Everywhere I was at home and I really want to offer the same to any adventourous soul!

Interests

Reading, languages, making ceramics, watercolour paintings, revolution, socialism, teaching and learning, drawing, lovemaking, cooking, rising children, planting, ecology, alternative living styles, experimenting, aboriginal history, pre Spanish American archeology and philosophy, American Languages, Zen meditation, nude Yoga

  • books
  • dining
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • coffee
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • reading
  • socializing
  • pottery
  • painting
  • drawing
  • archeology
  • ecology
  • history
  • languages
  • medicine
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Omeros by Dereck Walcott (book) , To Kill a Mockinbird (movie), Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Helping poor farmer girls give birth in the Mexican mountains helped by the book "Where There is no Doctor". Every time a miracle!

Teach, Learn, Share

My language, some favorite recipes, some time.

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