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Valeska

Age:

Gender:

Female

If you must know:

I'm happily married

Travel status:

Coming home

Hometown:

New York

Currently in:

New York

Traveling Next:

Adirondacks, NY

Favorite places I've been:

Madrid, Barcelona, Vinas del Mar and Valparaiso in Chile, all of Puerto Rico and anywhere in Costa Rica.

Places I want to go to:

More of Europe, New Zealand, Australia and Africa are my dream places.

About me:

My goal is to be a citizen of the world, learning and enjoying different cultures as well as their languages. I am a fiction writer in New York with an M.A. in Media, currently working on my first novel. I lust after travel, am inspired by world literature and live for creating fiction, not necessarily in that order.

Profile URL:

http://matadortravel.com/travel-community/valeska

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I'm fired up on:

I have three main passions in life, writing fiction, traveling and education for girls around the world.

Tunes I rock out to:

Anything that'll get me going or inspire me to write and dance!

Travel style:

The ultimate freedom is to just pick up and go. That's my style. I tend to plan trips on a whim, love to meet and hang out with locals and really getting to know a culture, not just the beauty of their countries.

Quote:

"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference." ~Robert Frost

Sports I do:

Hiking, biking, running

Favorite artist(s):

Stevie Nicks, Antoni Gaudi, Salvador Dali

Favorite books:

The Alchemist

Who I'd like to meet on my travels:

Isabel Allende, Paulo Coehlo, Pico Iyer

I want to make a difference by:

I am passionate about empowering girls and women of all ages through education and creating opportunities and would love for my nieces to someday grow up reading about Female Genital Mutilation in the HISTORY books. I am also proud to constantly meet women who make it their purpose every day to create awareness of women's issues through media, a goal that I myself hope to accomplish.

Languages spoken, other than English:

Spanish

I felt the most immersed in a foreign culture when:

I moved to Puerto Rico as an adolescent. My teachers told me I had to learn to read, write and speak spanish fluently in three months or I owuld be left back a couple of grades. Needless to say, I learned pretty quickly.

Why I travel:

I think it's a path towards world unity and respect. When you meet people in their own environment, it's hard to be judegmental and that is the state I want to remain in. I'd love to be a citizen of the world and incorporate my experiences in my writing. I travel because it's when i feel the most alive to express myself and because I think it's the true path towards wisdom and self fulfillment.
But ultimately, I travel because life's too short to be taken so seriously.

Ideal place to watch the sunrise:

In between two mountains In Puerto Rico from the balcony of a house in the rain forest.

Ideal place to watch the sunset:

From a port in Barcelona, with a glass of red in your hands and the rest of the night ahead of you.

Before I die I'd like to:

Leave my mark as a writer and world traveler.