Silvano Vitar-Mexico

My name is Silvano Vitar and I´m a mexican student of philosophy and a third year student of the Phoenix Institute Summer Program. My favorite books are Don Quijote, "The idiot", fear and trembling, critique of pure reason, dissemination, among others.As for my favorite hobby that shall be playing the guitar, mostly heavy metal and blues, speaking about music, my favorite composers and bands are: Albinoni, megadeth, Haendel, Pink Floyd, etc.

I shall recommend you to look in the internet for the painting of "the Christ" of Holbein; I guess i can tell more about myself with that painting and resume most of my thought with it.

Kacper Warykiewicz-Poland

My name is Kacper Warykiewicz, I was born in Poland in Cracow. I have two older sisters and younger brother. Now, I'm studying on Tischner European University - International Relations and on Jagielloński University - Law and Administration. My hobby is sports like alpin skiing, windsurfing, bike downhill etc. I have Alpin Skiing Instructor Certificate and Senior Motorboat Helmsman. In past I was training football in professional club and alpin skiing in Polish Ski Team. My favourite music is jazz and rock. I like to read book about buddish culture and buddish religion, but my favourite writer is William Wharton and J.D. Salinger. My date of birth: 18.03.1988

Sofía Rosas Michel-Mexico

Name: Sofía Rosas Michel
Age: 23
Country of birth: México
Family: father: constructor, mother: housewife and pianist, brother (19) studying architecture, and sister (17) in high school.
Studying: Law at the Universidad Panamericana campus Guadalajara.
Actual work: Lawyers´firm "Integroup S.C." in the Corporate and Insurance lawsuit area.
Interests: cultures, children, theatre, photography, philosophy and debates.
Sports: Wakebording and water skiing.

Paulo Roberto Tellechea Sanchotene-Brazil

My name is Paulo Roberto Tellechea Sanchotene, 29 years old, Brazilian (Rio Grande do Sul state). I'm lawyer, graduated in the Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS - 2004), and a Master degree student in Philosophy of Law at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS).
I'm the eldest son of three kids. I have a sister (27) and a brother (21). My parents are divorced. My father is also a lawyer and my mother is a entrepeneur.
I'm married to Alice, and we have a son, Henrique. They'll be all with me at Norte Dame this summer.
It's my second year in Phoenix Institute, and I'm very excited with this opportunity to meet some familiar faces and to know new people. I won't tell more about myself, because I wish people to ask personally.
P.S.: As you can assume by my photo, I'm a soccer-addict. And since it's a World Cup year, you have been warned! I just hope this "disease" won't cause much trouble, especially to me...

Arkadiusz Kudelski-Poland

Name: Arkadiusz Kudelski

Age: 23 years
Country of birth: Poland
Nationality: Polish
Academic Background: I finished bachelor in International Relations at Tischner European University year ago and now I’m doing my master program in philosophical faculty at Jagiellonian University.
Hobbies: Literature, politics, theatre, history of European and Western culture, esthetics, political economy, political philosophy, travelling, photography, PHILOSOPHY :)

Sports: basketball, running, swimming, tennis
Music: All against main stream.
Books: “Mater and Margarita” of Michail Bulhakov, All books of Viktor Pielewin, “Reader” of Bernhard Schlink, “alien” of Albert Camus
Organizations: political philosophy section at Jagiellonian University, Institute for Research on Civilizations

Mariana Arango-Colombia

My name is Mariana Arango, I am 19 years old and I am very please to be involved in the phoenix institude course. I live in Medellin, Colombia with my parents, two brothers and one sister. I graduated from Marymount School. Right know I am studying Business Manager at Universidad Eafit - Medellín-Colombia (Third semester). Expected June 2013 I am participant in “Vivienda Digna” a Social program which main purpose is to improve life quality by giving them a home.In my spare time, I enjoy playing squash, watching movies or reading a good book.

Barbara Barcik-Poland

My Name is Barbara Barcik, I'm almost 20 (born at 03.09.1990 - so I'm propably one of the youngest participants ^^). I'm from Poland. I live in small village located in the south of Poland - in Beskids. I've got two older brothers. We have a dog living with us - three months old Bernese Mountain Dog :) and she really enjoy eating my Mother's flowers ;p . As about my education, I've graduated High School of the Presentation Virgins in Kraków where i'm studying right now International Relations at Tischner European University. Kraków is not so far away from my homeplace, something about 100 km. I like reading books. Different kinds like romances, biographies, historical novel and sometimes some fantasy books. As about my other hobbies sometimes I like to embroider or try to make something else by my hands :) It is hard to define my taste of music becouse I like a lot of bands and singers like The Beatles, Queen, Roxette, Cranberries some songs of Aerosmith or The Rolling Stones, Sting, Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen. But also our polish artists :) Mostly I like music from the decades of 60's - 90's.

Mateusz Kędzierski-Poland

Mateusz Kędzierski. Age: 26. Country of birth: Poland nationality: Polishbasic family data: well, I have brother who lives in Cambridge (UK) and really great parents, here in Poland - this is the most important in my life, not only family lifeacademic background:

February – July 2009: Faculty of Literature and Philosophy, University in Genova, Italy (Università degli Studi di Genova – Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia): Erasmus scholarship, subject: Philosophy, History, History of art

2006 – 2010: Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Department of Philosophy - subject: Philosophy

2006 – 2007: Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Department of Philosophy - subject: Sociology - scholarship as part of “The Bridge” (MOST) Students Exchange Programme

2005 – 2006: Warsaw University, Department of Law and Administration - subject: Law

2003 – 2008: Warsaw University, Departament of Philosophy and Sociology – subject: Sociology. Subject of M.A. thesis: Alexis de Tocqueville’s concept of the democratic man

Hobbies: music (I play on bass), art, reading sports: fencing, skiing !!! joggingmusical preferences: classical music!!!!, rock (60' and 70'), blues, folk music, jazzfavorite books: I really like Stendhal, H. de Balzac, Josif Brodski, T.Mann and classical ancient literature.

Fernando Buchanan-Mexico

My name is Fernando Buchanan Arellano, i´m 19 years old, my birthday is on December the 18th and I was born in Aguascalientes, Ags. México. I live with my mom and two sisters, the older one is 15 and the small one is 8 years old, we´re a small but happy family. We´ve had some obstacles, but life has always teached us to stay together, appreciate everything (the little things and details are very important) and to love each other, even when you have household chores to do. Currently i´m at Law school, second semester, and im starting to feel really pasionate about it, Justice seems to be such a paradigma you just feel the urge to learn as much as you can so that one day (maybe today) you can make a change, help society, be an example for others; Sports...well.. I´m not an athlete, but Im good at skeet shoothing and colombaire shooting too, It´s been a tradition on my family since my great-grand father and I like it a lot, my favorite books are historic novels such as "Capitan Alatriste" "La catedral del Mar" "El Húsar", and my favorite author is Arturo Pérez Reverte. I really dont have a developed artistic talent, I´ve been on drums, piano, trumpet, guitar and many more... but I haven´t stayed longed enough to dominate one, I like to sing sometimes, as for my hobbies I enjoy going to the movies (a lot), go out with my friends, listen to jazz, Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, almost all the oldies, spend some time alone, dream while Im awake, watching everything that happens around me, and most of all I love to smile, laugh, and enjoy life.

Natalia Osorio-Colombia

My name is Natalia Osorio, I am 24 years old and I am from Colombia, the country where I still live. I am a very sportive person, I like to socialized but I also like privacity and to have my own space. I like to be in contact with nature, going to the movies, i enjoy to read, to study, to make new friends. I live with my parents and my older sister. I have already graduated from a bussiness university, here in Colombia.I love to dance tropical, american and modern music. I like to do too many things, different things. I love a book named "El profeta", from Kalil Gibran, the best book sold after the bible in the 20th century. I also like to read spiritual books. I am catholic, and I usually go to church every sunday morning. One day in the week I usually to go to painting clases, and I love to paint.