CURRENT MISSION

To do with deep feeling so as to do it right

ABOUT ME

There are five of us in the house, women and men. Often our couchsurfers simply walk in and meet everyone and all of a sudden there's a party. I come home from work to find them all laughing with each other. All my housemates are there, the couchsurfers are there, there is food, Balta the dog is being petted vigorously. Its that kind of thing. Very hands off. (not for Balta the dog). We live downtown. We have a mobile sauna that we take to the beach. When you come, do not arrive empty handed, cause we will certainly eat a big dinner together. Bring good food and wine, or delicious things for breakfast. Couchsurfing for me is about give and take.

I've hosted well over 500 people, often four or five at a time. I don't collect references. But I can tell you that after hosting this many travellers not everyone was kind and its not a pleasure to have someone jdge my life and write about it on the internet as though I'm running a public hotel. So please be kind when you come. Be patient. Have space and gentleness.

We have a moral duty to cause some trouble. If I see that you are too comfortable with yourself, I might do something to take you off balance.

I do couchsurfing for people who travel to be alive and to wake up even when it means being uncomfortable. Why wake up? Its the only way to have deep feeling and intelligence.

If you come here you have obligations - you should wake up in the morning when we wake up, share a cup of tea, get to know us, perhaps offer to cook dinner or something similar, and so on. In turn, we will include you in our lives. If you don't agree about this, stay away. Couchsurfing is not a vacation and this is not your all inclusive vacation resort. Also, we are morning people, and we usually get up with the sunshine.

PHILOSOPHY

Make trouble when you can cause even good things get old and tired and need to come crashing down.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I don't do anything different because you are here; I just include you in whatever is going on. Something is always going on. This is an ideal place to visit if you want to give something of yourself, and if you have a warm heart.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Ten percent really great, one percent was to expose my private life to the most vicious, humorless fools I've ever met who then write all about me on the Internet, and rest was just running some kind of free hostel in my living room.

Interests

SAUNA

http://youtu.be/EvWh6PMi9Ek

• dogs
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• wine
• running
• sauna
• partying
• clubbing
• traveling
• wrestling
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

El Beso de la Mujer Arana, The Miramachi Trilogy, This All Happened, Galapagos, Catch 22, La Soleil qui se Couche, Platforme, Les Contes du Chat Perche. I've read books in German, Spanish, French and English. I never really love where I am until I fall in love with its art.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Content censored at Frithjof's request.

Teach, Learn, Share

I will teach you:

How to Sauna

How to tell jokes

The difference between an open mind and a sloppy, lazy mind

Inuit leg wrestling

Carpentry

African dancing

How to have presence

Laughing club!

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