CURRENT MISSION

dasein

ABOUT ME

When asked about the greatest day of his life, the flying man said 1) the day his feet first left the earth and 2) every day since

PHILOSOPHY

Eu não tenho filosofia: tenho sentidos
—Alberto Caeiro

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

CS has also led me to amazing travel experiences, roommates, a language tandem, helpful advice, and hitchhiking companions

I wouldn't trade this experience for any other: hosting and being hosted, I've met some of the most fascinating people in the world

Interests

• poetry
• cooking
• yoga
• hiking
• trees
• capoeira angola

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
El Lado Oscuro del Corazón, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Charlie Chaplin, Der Himmel über Berlin, The Man with the Movie Camera, Absolute Giganten, O Auto da Compadecida, Abril Despedaçado

Music:
Cartola, Os Novos Baianos, Chico Buarque, Clara Nunes, The Mountain Goats

Books:
Search Sweet Country, Italo Calvino, Catch-22, Moby Dick, Jazz (Toni Morrison), Hermann Hesse, Middlesex, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, On Photography, Louise Erdrich, War and Peace, Los detectives salvajes, Education Sentimentale, The Phantom Tollbooth

Poetry:
Rilke, Szymborska, Manoel de Barros, Spoon River Anthology , Leaves of Grass, Dante Alighieri, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Octavio Paz, Derek Walcott, Kenneth Rexroth, Maya Angelou, César Vallejo

Short story:
Jeanette Winterson, Flannery O'Connor, Machado de Assis, Mark Twain, Karen Russell, Yiyun Li, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Boccaccio

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking in the Chapada Diamantina with my son

Teach, Learn, Share

Yes!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Georgia, Germany, Italy, United States

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