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Overview

  • 20 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish; learning Chinese (Simplified), German
  • 40, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Architect
  • Master’s degree in Architecture
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

travel a lot and make friends everywhere

ABOUT ME

I like to make friends all over the place and experiment new things and new cultures.
I'm a bit shy but once I start knowing a person I start talking more :P
One of my passions is architecture for development and I co-founded www.awarecollective.org which focus on social projects.
I believe that the world should be based on kindness and Couchsurfing is a wonderful platform for that.

PHILOSOPHY

"A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles."
Tim Cahill

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

going to all the kind of CS meetings where I'm living!

Interests

architecture, design, photography, music, cinema, food, food design and cooking, TED Talks, making friends... and I could carry on with this list :P

  • architecture
  • design
  • photography
  • dining
  • cooking
  • running
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Darjeeling limited, The Royal Tenenbaums, Cidade de Deus, Home 2009, Into the wild, Mongol, Hero, Vitus, Alien... etc etc

Music: Cinematic Orchestra, dj krush, Erik Satie, feist, Felix laband, Justice, Gui Boratto, Salif Keita, Ravi Shankar, Seu Jorge, etc etc etc

Books: "O meu pé de laranja lima" and "Capitães da areia"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Running from a wild elephant in a natural park in India. (great adrenaline but lucky to still be alive)

Enjoying a ride on the top of a pickup in Mozambique while listening to the local radio and enjoying the amazing landscape.

watching the sunrise seated in a chimney at the rooftop in Vienna.

Countries I’ve Visited

Andorra, Austria, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Myanmar, Netherlands, Norway, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria, China, Germany, Mozambique, Portugal, Spain

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