I was not born with the silver spoon in my mouth.
I respect other people's culture, I am a cultural relativist.
I am vegetarian.
I am an aid worker and a teacher.
I believe in the art of getting by.
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Interests

• literature
• music
• anthropology
• geography
• geopolitics
• languages
• volunteering
• biking
• activism
• gym
• maps
• zoology

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Alt-J, Active Child, Bjork, Caribou, David Bowie, Depeche Mode, Goldfrapp, GusGus, Grimes, Interpol, Liniker e os Caramelows, M.I.A., Major Lazer, Metronomy, Mashrou' Leila, Massive Attack, New Order, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, Simian Mobile Disco, She Wants Revenge, TALA, The Knife, Kali Uchis, The Killers, The Smiths, Trust, PNL, Washed Out, Vitalic, Y.A.S, Zaed Naes, Saint Levant, Rosalia, TUL8TE, Shygirl, Juan Gabriel, Ghali, Kendrik Lamar…

Movies: Waltz With Bashir, The Time That Remains, Precious, American Beauty, Lost in Translation, Machete, This is England, Léon, V for Vendetta, Mermaids, Amore Perros, Paradise Now, Darjeeling Limited, Lebanon, Much Loved, The Match Factory Girl, Pink Flamingos, The Girl With The Pistol, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Grbavica, Black Cat White Cat, Parenti Serpenti...

Books: Ghassan Kanafani, Rumi, Yukio Mishima, Tiziano Terzani, Anna Politkovskaja, Fabrizio Gatti, Ryszard Kapuściński, Paolo Rumiz, Susan Abulhawa, Robert Frisk, Cesare Pavese, Fabio Gedda, Nagib Mahfuz, Ahmed Nagi, Shahd Abusalama, Joze Pirjevec, Hakan Gunday, Noam Chomsky, Edward W. Said, Luis Sepúlveda, Manuel Puig, Jeorge Amado, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Banana Yoshimoto, Anton Checov, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Mann...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Taking a bath with an elephant in the Nepalese jungle, kayaking alone in the breathtaking beauty of Halong Bay, hitch-hiking across the Turkish Kurdistan, detonate a dynamite in the Bolivian Cerro Rico of Potosí, feeding a hyena in Ethiopia, searching for peyote on horseback in the Mexican desert...

Teach, Learn, Share

Languages!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Oman, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, Egypt, Finland, Italy, Lebanon, Nepal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey