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  • 12 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Portuguese; learning French, German, Spanish
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Freelancer
  • Social Communication at UFRJ
  • From Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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About Me

I work with Business Communication and as a freelancer writer and copiwriter. I am trying top do some literary translations. I really love travelling. All the expectation before a big trip and the feeling of come back home are priceless! I like live music, cinema and good books. I believe in God, each day more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I hosted a guy for 4 days. It was a positive experience. I met wonderful people in CS meetings in many countries.

Interests

I like to talk about music, books, movies, art, design and culture in general. I like to study languages, one of the most wonderful things in the world.

  • arts
  • culture
  • writing
  • books
  • design
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • live music
  • business
  • freelancing
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Books
Ian McEwan, Borges, Nikolai Leskov, Goethe, Julio Cortázar, Neil Gaiman, George Orwell, Amos Oz, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Philip Roth, Italo Calvino, William Faulkner, Leo Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Kafka, Dostoiévski

Music
Arcade Fire, Pulp, The Clash, Pixies, Phoenix, Strokes, Belle & Sebastian, The Velvet Underground, The Smiths, Buffalo Springfield, The Stone Roses, Los Hermanos, New Osion, Kaiser Chiefs, Kraftwerk, Cat Power, Feist, The Who, Joy Division, The Magic Numbers, The National, Oasis, Beirut,The Strokes, Nouvelle Vague, Little Joy, Frou Frou, Ratm, REM, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, The Ramones, Rancid, Portishead, The Police, Dead Kennedys, Björk, Tocotronic, John Lennon, The Beatles,Rammstein, Wir sind Helden, Chico Buarque, The Sex Pistols, Radiohead, Novos Baianos, Iron Maiden,

Films
Ingmar Bergman, Costa Gavras, Tony Gatlif, Felini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Cohen Brothers, David Fincher, David Lynch, Woody Allen, Sergei Eisenstein, Fassbinder, Orson Welles, Fatih Akin,Truffaut, Richard Linklater, Michel Gondry, Glauber Rocha, Vincent Paronnaud e Marjane Satrapi, Scorcese, Eran Riklis, Denys Arcand, Allan Resnais, Stanley Kubrick, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jim Jarmusch, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Francis Ford Coppola, Joel & Ethan CoenTerry Gillia, Tim Burton

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was kicked out of a boring job so I moved to London to live a different experience in its full in 2011. I had one of the best times in my life.

Teach, Learn, Share

As I like learning and teaching languages, I could teach my native language, Portuguese (Brazil). I would like to learn more English, French and German, my three favorite languages. And Spanish is a obligation!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Paraguay, United Kingdom, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, United Kingdom

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