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Isabelle

deixa a vida te levar!!

About Me

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”-Elbert Hubbard

My Interests

travel, family, friends, music, film, food, sweets, international development, waterfalls, dance, soccer, the struggles of people across the world (esp. women and children), EQUALITY, drums (dancing to them,around them and playing them!!) guitars, BIG street parties, languages, culture, making up words, giving people nicknames, laughing hysterically, meeting interesting people, a ice cold pint of Leffe beer or glass of red wine and dancing until I sweat! ..

I'd like to meet:

Nelson Mandela & Las Mariposas because they are/were great and George 'Doubaya' Bush so I could slap the s*** out of him. I know all the other great people in the world!!

Music:

music my favorite subject... Amadou & Miriam, Oumou Sangare, Zap Mama, Revelacao, Jill Scott, Outkast, Cheb Mami, Khaled, Ara Ketu, Ivete Sangalo, Erykah Badu, Gipsy Kings, Les Nubians, Musiq Soulchild, Paul Simon, Goodie Mob, Kassav, Zouk Machine, Bob Marley (always n forever!!), India Arie, A Tribe Called Quest, old skool Nas, 2PAC, Caetano Veloso, Al Green, Aretha Franklin, Bill Withers, Marisa Monte, Dave Matthews Band, Stevie Wonder, Hed Kandi, Mary J., Juan Luis Guerra (440), Daniella Mercury, Jack Johnson, Res, Sade, Sting, Bebel Gilberto, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix, Patricia Faria, Seu Jorge, tribal, funky and soulful house, old skool MIA booty music oh and so much more...

Movies:

amores perros, moolaade, amelie, iraq in fragments, the shape of things, the barbarian invasions, paradise now, the blossoming of maximo oliveros, tstosi, together, leila says, talk to her, meet the parents, ghost, sarafina, legends of the falls, the goonies, city of god, dirty dancing, favela rising, shawshank redemption, rabbit proof fence, the agronomist, all about my mother, respiro, central station, my josephine, untold scandal

Television:

prison break

Books:

in the time of the butterflies, the farming of bones, veronika decides to die, the four agreements, long walk to freedom- autobiography of Nelson Mandela, the kite runner, their eyes were watching god, sister of my heart, a sunday at the pool in kigali, wide sargasso sea, love in the time of cholera, the alchemist, the god of small things, a million little pieces, memoirs of a geisha, the mastery of love, desert flower.

Heroes:

my mommy of course & anyone who ever stood up for anything important in this world!!