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Overview

  • 53 references 26 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Italian; learning French, Polish, Spanish, Ukrainian
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2009
  • I work in finance field. I used to own a bar, I used to o...
  • Bachelor degree in law - Tesol certified English teacher
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Traveling, discovering, enjoying.

ABOUT ME

Well.. What can I say..
I'm Emilio. Born and raised in a quite small city in a pretty small island in Italy. Take a map of Italy. Check on the left, there are two islands. The one up is Corse (France), the one down, bigger, is Sardinia, where I was born.
Lots of people are confused between the two Italian islands, Sardinia (or Sardegna) and Sicily. We stay on the left, they stay on the right. Sicily is a bit bigger and there are a lot more people than here!
I also spent six months living in Denver, Colorado. A city with crazy weather and crazy people (crazy means very cool). In my life I had the chance to travel a lot and to visit other places and to meet lots of people coming from everywhere. I'm still waiting to have a big culture shock.
I lived in Warsaw for 8 and half years, now Im back in Cagliari and next who knows.. :)

PHILOSOPHY

Never stop discovering!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I sometimes can host people at my place. But I do host only when I know I have time to share with my guests.
I help people who need information about my city.
Just write me, I will do all my best to answer!
In every city I visit I try to meet locals.
They know the city a lot better than the guide-books (or usually it does seem like this)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Pretty cool so far. Hosted many great folks at my place and met lots of others in my city and while traveling. Couchsurfing is an incredible opportunity to discover new places, new people and new cultures..
But it's like this when it is used in a proper way.
(If you ask me to be hosted, it is good to show up. It happened a couple of times that people asked to be hosted, I accepted, I changed my plans and then they didn't show up. It's not nice)
(If people accept to host I think they have to try to be the nicer they can)
(Considering Couchsurfing as a dating site is quite pathetic. If you think so it means you didn't get anything about this project)
(couchsurfing is not a way to get a free hostel. It works out only if you try to interact with the people who are hosting you)

Interests

Traveling - Modern and contemporary history - Meeting new people - Having fun - Learning - Discovering - United States - Belgium - Music - Movies - Wine - Beer (especially Belgian) - Cultural events - Arts - Different opinions - Ethnic food - Veganism - Politics - Europe -

Music, Movies, and Books

The diving bell and the butterfly - Lost In Translation - Let the right one in - Todo sobre mi madre - The children of men - Il divo - Elizabethtown - 3 Iron - Sympathy for mr. vengeance - The eternal sunshine of a spotless mind - The Truman show - Some like it hot - Sunset boulevard - Back to the future - Memento - Hannah and her sisters - Reservoir dogs - Shame
(and a lot more...)
sigur ros - crystal castles - hot chip - interpol - arctic monkeys - battles - adele - the beatles - the chemical brothers - nirvana - tegan and sara - the used - verdena - edith piaf - arcade fire - air - moby - kanye west - the cure - the strokes - vampire weekend - the vaccines - mgmt - the naked and famous - frank turner - prodigy - radiohead - the rapture - incubus - m.i.a. - jay-z - the beastie boys - first aid kit
(and a lot more...)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Let me think..

In Tallinn I saw the Baltic sea totally iced.. One of the whitest and most silent scenario you can find..
In Madrid once there were more than 50° C. under the sun..
I made it to get lost without a map in Brussels, in New York City, Seattle and many other places..

Teach, Learn, Share

I'm ready to learn.. Maybe..

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Poland, United States

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