**UPDATE**
Living in a student's dorm in Leeds until September. Not sure if I can host someone here, but you can mail me if you need....
**old**
My place: an small but nice studio near the Rotterdam Central Station. walking distance from the city center and the parties!!!!
Since´I am fresh new in Rotterdam, We will probably have to discover the city together :-D
No pets, non smoker. But I really don’t care if you smoke in the balcony. (And I have my own shisha :-D )
I have only one bed, but two good mattresses. Normally I host a lot of people, but now I had to limit my CSer to only 2 per night.
I work all day long (but not much :-) ). I will be glad to show the city to anyone during the evenings or weekends or also join in a small trip to some city around.
Other details:
-really good public transportation 5min from my door.
-My best time to go to bed? early....something like 5 or 6am
-I can host weekdays or weekends
-I have blankets, sleeping bag and towels
-I do like surfers who:
Cook
Dance
Drink beer or wine
Bring stuff from their country
Can talk about their traditions
Carry lots of typical music from his place
If you dont have any of these characteristics, it doesn´t mean that you can´t stay here, but it might be slightly more difficult. The only thing that you MUST do is read this profile. I worked a lot on it and I will be pissed off if I find out that you just copy-pasted some request! And I don´t reply emails to Brazilians who send me request in English…for obvious reasons!
Luciano Scilletta 29, Male London, London England Friends since March 1997 "We're friends since high school. That's about ten years." Friendship Type: Best Friend 30+
Anu Lehepuu 26, Female Diemen, Noord-Holland Netherlands Friends since May 2009 "First person who contacted me through CS :D" Friendship Type: Close Friend
Marie-Eve Meunier 22, Female Montreal, Quebec Canada Friends since June 2008 "hosted me" Friendship Type: Close Friend 7
Patricia Marques 28, Female Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Friends since December 2007 "we've studied together at University and worked at the same place for years" Friendship Type: Close Friend
Neyton Prado 25, Male Guarulhos, Sao Paulo Brazil Friends since October 1983 "O cara é quase meu primo" Friendship Type: Close Friend 30+
Raquel Dantas Do Amaral 30, Female Fortaleza, Ceara Brazil Friends since April 2007 "he asked me to rescue him in berlin" Friendship Type: Good Friend 2
Saulo Ferraz Pereira 28, Male Campinas, Sao Paulo Brazil Friends since February 2001 "We studied and worked together in college" Friendship Type: Friend
BIBIRELLA 26, Female Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since September 2008 "he held the how-to-blow-rings-with-shisha-smoke-workshop" Friendship Type: Friend
Andressa Caldeira 25, Female Berlin, Berlin Germany Friends since September 2007 "he is my Superhero ;)" Friendship Type: Good Friend
**UPDATE** For a number of reasons I havent been very active in CS for the last 20months. But I guess that all the issues are sorted out, so now I am back.
**Original definition:**
Man, I love these CS friends: They have let so many good definitions about me that I don´t need to write another one. If you wanna know AllAboutMe, just have a look at my references.
Of course they tend to be too polite, so cut half the compliments and make twice of the criticisms. :-)
CouchSurfing Experience
The basics:
- A lot of Coffee or Drink meetings (more drinks than coffees :) )
- I had the honour and the pleasure of hosting 48 CS´er for a total of 105 nights.
- I had the honour and the pleasure of been hosted by 17 great couchsurfers for a total of 40 nights.
Philosophy
- Why to sleep now if one day you will sleep for all the eternity?
or Enjoy life till its maximum, die young and keep a pretty wrinkles-free face in paradise!
- Save a broccoli, eat a steak
or Save water, drink beer
- The liver is bad and must be punished! :-)
- É fazendo merda que se aduba a vida
- Homem covarde não beija mulher bonita
- Se a força não resolve, use mais força (sorry about the Portuguese, but they are less funny if translated...)
Music, Movies, Books
Movies: The Godfather, Star Wars (the old ones), City of God, In the Name of the Father, Shrek, Tarantino´s movies, gangsters movies, and a lot more, mainly old stuff that you probably don´t know....
Books: Lord of the Rings, Dracula, all from Machado de Assis (the best Brazilian author in my humble opinion), Le Carre, Michael Crichton...
Music: depends on the situation. Eletronic, Forró or Medieval stuff(Boombal) for partying and Rock, Classic or MPB (Brazilian popular music) for listening at home.
Types of People I enjoy
Open minded, willing to party hard during the night and wake up early to enjoy the new day. Funny, who likes sharing knowledge (mainly about culture/history of his country).
And you have a special bonus if you cook, dance or help with the dishes :-)
One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done
- Trekking around Ilha Grande (BR) sleeping on the
beaches without tend, under a canvas of uncountable stars
- 20 days driving an old car (max speed 85km/h) through south of Brasil, Uruguay and Argentina
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From Levente Kádár Targu Mures, Romania Nov 15, 2011
Positive
Fight for Love! Hey, hey, hey bro!
Fight for the good life!
Enjoyed chatting with him! He is a party-head, constantly in the mood for fun!
See you!
L
From Daniel Lundy Nottingham, England Aug 20, 2011
Positive
met anderson on a spontaneuos cs night out in leeds. genuine and very interesting guy. gave me some good advice for my future travels! gets my full approval
met at a cs meeting in leeds and met up a few times for beers, really cool guy who really knows what cs is about and is full of knowledge and info
From Natalie Held Heidelberg, Germany Aug 21, 2009
Positive
Anderson is a real brazilian gentleman!!! It was so good meeting him and made the end of my travel PERFECT! He cooked good brazilian food and I learned a everything about oil-plattforms :)
THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, ANDERSON!!!
(hope you found the envelope)
I met Andersson in the Berlin Beach Camp, and we had a funny evening together with great accordeon music. He's a really nice guy with alot stories to tell and looks funny with his cowboyhat ;). He was so nice to rent me his pullover as it was really cold :) Thank you!
Anderson, you are so great!
Thank you for your good company, for all interesting stories (and helpful advices) you have told me. I do respect you for realizing your cherished dream.
//When your life flashes before your eyes, make sure you've got plenty to watch. ;)
He is so funny and helpful! All Moscow saw us while we were watching fireworks standing on the barrier in the middle of the bridge! We had an amazing day in Moscow when he happened to meet our CS company just by chance!
During Karneval, Anderson likes to dress up as a brazilian (I wonder what he's really like when he takes that costume off?).
Whatever, he's definitely the man to party with and spend an amazing time! (if you can stand his cachaça "boazinha" during the whole time :).
All in all, this guy is just crazy, in a great way! And a good friend I'll keep!