Freethinking yes-saying art-loving sushi-eating beer-drinking location independent carioca.

Not in Brazil right now!

You can call me Gabi :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The best part of my trips have always been with Couchsurfers -- the stories we share sitting at home with a glass of wine, the parties we go to and make instant new friends, the walks around the city where I can see it through their eyes. I've been met with nothing but kindness and I'm deeply grateful for this amazing community ❤

Interests

Getting lost, being outdoors, soaking up so much that you forget to take pictures, unique experiences.

• arts
• writing
• books
• beer
• movies
• drawing
• music
• anthropology
• entrepreneurship
• languages
• solo travel
• adventure travel
• nature
• series
• nonviolent communication
• creative writing

Music, Movies, and Books

Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Cure, Kings of Convenience, Alt-J, Chet Faker, José González, The XX, Mura Masa, CRO, Flume, Phantogram, Foster the People, Mø, Novos Baianos. For dancing, anything will do.

Life is Beautiful, Into the Wild, Fight Club, Dead Poets Society, Whiplash.

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Memories of my Melancholy Whores, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Wild.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once I crawled out of my mother's womb, I started getting amazed by pretty much anything.
Highlights would be:

// watching the sunrise from a balloon ride in Luxor;
// laying down at Salar de Uyuni staring at its infinite sky;
// paragliding over the turquoise waters of a Turkish beach;
// skydiving in São Paulo;
// playing with kids in the floating islands of Uros;
// dancing with strangers in the streets of Tokyo on NYE;
// scuba diving in Zanzibar;
// having a picnic on some ruins overlooking Sarajevo;
// making friends in a tomb cave in Iran;
// crossing the border between Kenya and Tanzania on a kayak (and then rowing back cause I'm not that rad)

...I could go on forever.

Teach, Learn, Share

I will love to hear every story you have to tell me. Let's share travel memories, talk about dear family members, weird friends or urgent world matters. I'm also a fan of random cultural knowledge. Hit me with some trivial facts, it'll make my day!

Can teach you how to:
- practice some drawing techniques (I'm not the most technical actually, but it's something I love doing)
- play the ukulele (as well as I do, so not very well)
- dance terrible samba (it's like twerking with your feet)
- cook a mean Brazilian brigadeiro (if we can find condensed milk)
- recite 28 different curse words in Portuguese (caralho: /kaˈɾaʎu/)

Would LOVE to learn more about farming, gardening, woodworking, construction, basically anything hands-on. Or any other cool skill that you might have, really haha

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, England, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Italy, Peru

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