CURRENT MISSION

getting throught med school alive while getting to know as many places and people as i can

ABOUT ME

Aaaall about me: I like travelling, meeting people from other countries, love nature, music, partying, kinda like to study too, freedom. I enjoy eating and sleeping.
I'm studying medicine (6th year) and it's very hard sometimes, but I wouldn't see myself doing anything else. My university is in Porto, and this is where I live, but I grew up in a small village in the south of Portugal.
I'm usually the one who always wants to do things and invites people to go places. I don't see my self as the most adventurous person but people say I am (some even may say I'm insanely adventurous, but that's definitely not true).
I like going out, I do, but sometimes I'm just tired.
I love music festivals and the whole camping and music and dancing thing definitely gets my juices flowing.
People that are from a different country are automatically included in the I-want-to-meet category.
I think I'm a easy person to host: I can do almost anything without making any noise, I can cook (no one ever complaints) and I even enjoy cleaning places as long as its not my place :D
I like to believe I'm fun to be around, but then I guess everyone does, and I'm really honest.
I wonder how many people atually read this whole thing..

PHILOSOPHY

Not defined yet, in phrase form, come back in a few years (back to not being profound)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

The usual way, I guess, hosting and being hosted

I don't spend a lot of time in the area where I grew up (Alentejo) but I feel the need to let tourists know about these beautiful places cause they are not touristic at all and people that don't know Portugal will never go there.
Here's a promotional spot (I know it is kinda silly) that shows some of the cool places you can see in Alentejo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IyNsusb7Zo

If you have some flexible vacations and you are an adventurous soul (its not easy getting there, and if u need help u can ask me for it, of course) who's a little weary of city tourism, this would be my advise, no doubt.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

none yet through CS (24 feb 2011)
3 hosting experiences in the past two weeks (5 mar 2011)
not keeping count anymore (20 sept 2011)
surfed a couch for the 1st time in the end of august (17sept 2012)
CS is awesome! (17 oct 2013) :D

Interests

People, music, nature and places in particular, everything in general (yes, how profound of me)

• music festivals
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• partying
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• camping
• languages
• medicine
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

forrest gump, fabuleux destin d'amélie, inception, into the wild.. but always have a hard time remembering names of movies I like.
don't want to limit myself to one type of music: I don't like bad music.
fernando pessoa, saramago, eça de queiroz, julio dinis, sophia de mello breyner, steinbeck, gabriel garcia marquez, isabel allende, amin maalouf...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Azores, Azores was amazing!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach medicine (like the whole deal, no need for medical school after this), portuguese and how to use the public transportation of Porto. Oh and sarcasm, intensive course of sarcasm. Cause I get a lot of 'oh really!?' to which the answer is 'No!-_-'
Learn: everything
Share: experiences, languages (I really like german btw) and music

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Palestine, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, Poland, Portugal, Sweden

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