I don't think I can identify a single moment or experience that changed my life enough to convince me to become a host. I would rather say that it was a journey.

I was lucky enough to travel a lot, first with my parents then with friends or alone. Traveling over the years, I have developed the conviction that in travelling, in encountering the "other", the "different" from oneself, one can find the way to overcome racism, the way to empathize with other peoples and cultures, accept them as similar and live with them.

We live in an increasingly polarized society, welcoming those who travel, making them feel at home even if they are far from home, making them feel safe and trying to show them a glimmer of my world, I think is a good way to learn to live with "others" " that is, with the myriad of individualities that form this large and colorful mosaic that we call humanity.