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  • 5 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Arabic, English; learning French, Spanish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Program Manager - IT & Organization Development
  • MSc Information Systems Management & Innovation - War...
  • From Damascus, Damascus Governorate, Syrian Arab Republic
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Impossible is what you make it. Impossible is just a matter of personal opinion. The sky is NOT the limit! And the galaxy is my basic measurement unit!

ABOUT ME

Adventure is what makes life so delicious! A touch bookwormish :) I love exploration and feeding my sense of wonder. Routine-breaking is one of my favorite hobbies. And language learning is a passionate obsession I can't get rid of (Thank God!). Currently around Level 5 of Spanish and level 2 of French.

PHILOSOPHY

"A Day Without Laughter is a Day Wasted."
~Charlie Chaplin

You can't love someone too much, you can't be kind too much, and you can't be joyful and overflowing too much. Over-seriousness and "playless" living is the biggest devouring monster that sucks the life out of life's most extraordinary moments!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At the moment, I am offering to help familiarize anyone visiting the country I live in to experience it in its fullness by taking them around and showing them the most popular landmarks and historic places. Would love to also have a cultural exchange with someone over dinner (weekends are the best time) which helps my mission in promoting a sense of understanding and tolerance in myself in particular and in the community in general.

I hope to be able to offer my couch pretty soon. That will be subject to agreement with the people I live with at the moment.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just took my first baby steps by joining. Aspiring to learn to "run" and participate in the local community pretty soon :)

Interests

* Skydiving
* Geography
* Travels
* Nature Walks
* Meditation
* Language Learning
* Psychology
* Brain Resarch
* History
* Philosophy
* Architecture
* Teaching Arabic
* Ping Pong
* Books
* Writing (prose mostly)
* Dreaming
* Public Speaking
* Running
* Software Development
* Web Applications

  • writing
  • books
  • architecture
  • running
  • meditation
  • scuba diving
  • skydiving
  • sports
  • table tennis
  • geography
  • history
  • psychology
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

Lots of books to name, but here's a sampling of both favorite books and movies:
* Avatar
* Inception
* A Beautiful Mind
* If Only
* A Short History of Nearly Everything [Bill Bryson]
* Brain Rules [John Medina]
* The Tipping Point [Malcolm Gladwell]
* Eat Pray Love [Elizabeth Gilbert]
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy [Adam Douglas]
* The Five Love Languages
* Music by Loreena Mckennit
* Fairouz
* Marcel Khalifeh
* Classical music
* Rascal Flatts
* Daughtry
* Nickelback

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

* Jumping off an airplane in Virginia, USA.
* Indoors Sky-diving in Mirdif City Center, Dubai.
* Student Exchange program in Washington DC.

Teach, Learn, Share

You can learn basic Arabic from me throughout our talks if you're interested and I can most definitely offer a ping pong challenge (just for fun or if you'd like some tips) to those who enjoy this awesome kind of sport that boosts great body-mind coordination.

Would love to be able to practice conversational Spanish with a native/expert speaker in order to reach a good level of fluency. I'm getting pretty good at it pretty fast.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Kuwait, Syrian Arab Republic, United States

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