CURRENT MISSION

To see all inhabited continents - I know it's not particularly imaginative, but there it is :-)

ABOUT ME

Both a difficult and easy question to answer - To start with the practicalities; I was born in 1984 in little Denmark and have since gone through various schools untill I my current "status": A Bachelor in Environmental Chemistry, and a Masters in Biology.
Between 1995 and 1997 my family and I spend 2 years in Tanzania in Eastern Africa. This started my interest in the wide world and since I have spend time in New Zealand, All of Western Europe, Japan, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Turkey. Hopefully the list will soon get longer.
Currently I live in Aabenraa in Southern Denmark - only 30km from the Danish-German border so a good starting point for people on road-trips across the country.
Most of my travels these days is between Aabenraa and Copenhagen/Odense where many of my friends live. However I hope that soon the list of countries will get longer :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've only surfed and hosted a few times (twice the surfer, twice the host). But just like how it was in Turkey where couchsurfing is not so much a matter of logging on to the website as chatting up the first person you meet on the street - I've found out that this is not only a cheap way to travel, but more importantly the most interesting way of meeting new people. So far, travelling in Turkey has granted me new (self-developed) sayings and a new set of parents. In addition while surfing in New Zealand and hosting in Denmark I have had the chance to meet a Finnish-born Native American girl, a football (soccer to the Americans) crazy guy and one of the most delicious vegan meals I have yet to encounter.

Interests

There are two main interests:
The environment &
YFU - Youth For Understanding.
Ironically these are linked. Protecting the environment is probably the most important task humanity has in front of itself in the coming 100 years - and though I am no Al Gore I hope to contribute just a little bit. How is this linked to YFU? Well YFU - Youth For Understanding is an international organisation that for the last 50 years has worked with sending teenagers across the world with the purpose of increasing the understanding between cultures - and possibly improve the chances of world-wide peace. There in lies the link: Improving the environmental situation as it is, can only be achieved fully if the whole world work together - in peace. Otherwise the project will fail.

• books
• environment
• vegan
• traveling
• surfing
• soccer
• biology
• chemistry

Music, Movies, and Books

"The Lord of The Rings" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Deer Hunter"
"No Shitting in The Toilet" by Peter Moore
"The Zahir" by Paulo Coelho
"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Probably to live in Tanzania for 2 years. It wasn't actually my own choice but I grew and developed myself so much during those two years that it truly changed my life.

Teach, Learn, Share

For every traveller, surfer or whatever you would like to call yourself I can thouroughly recommend "No Shitting in The Toilet" by Australian Peter Moore. It is probably one of the funniest books I have ever read and for anyone with just a little bit of travel experience you will sit and nod your head of all of his stories that you can relate too.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Italy, Japan, Malawi, Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, New Zealand, Tanzania, Turkey

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