Hi guys, please take sometime read my profile.
Kindly request a week before, so I can prepare my schedule before.

CURRENT MISSION
Dear fellow couchsurfer, I am a lecture for Naresuan university International College. I am teaching Tourism Management. now, living in Phitsanulok.

PHILOSOPHY

It’s never easy to admit your flaws, let alone shine a light on them for the entire interwebs to see…. But I dare say that with each of these confessions, there would be at least one other person (presumably oodles of people) who can say the same or something similar for themselves.

Maybe not? Regardless, here goes nothing…

While I have previously written on how I self-fund my travel escapades, I know the importance of recognising not everyone can have such fortunate circumstances – but I strongly believe that our fate is not determined by our circumstances we inherit, but those which we create for ourselves.

There’s something about traveling and living abroad that has me coming back for more, year after year. It’s exciting. It’s addicting. It’s an adrenaline rush that never seems to be enough, at least not yet. Interestingly enough, what was once a “once in a lifetime trip” for me has somehow turned into a trip that has lasted a lifetime. Well, at least it feels that way.

Travel is life changing. It’s beautiful, mind-boggling, eye opening, raw, and even nerve wracking at times. Travel tests your judgment, patience and your tolerance levels incessantly.

I’ve been tested and challenged numerous times throughout my worldly travels, yet I’m a firm believer that everything I have experienced along this journey of mine has made me a better person in more ways than I could have ever imagined.

For some reason there’s a stigma against being happy with yourself. I’m not buying it. When you finally reach that point in life where you are happy with yourself, your outlook on life, your way of living, and the people you have around you, it’s as if no one can take it away from you. Sure, I still have days where I’m not as happy as others – that’s human – but generally speaking I’m happy with who I am, what I believe in, and how my life is running its course. Of course I don’t want to be single and a nomad forever, but for right now I’m heading in the right direction.

I find that when living back in a 9-5 world we tend to live in bubble-like existences. We have our home bubble, work bubble, family bubble and friends bubble. Now that is a lot of bubbles! But my point is we bounce from one to the next and rarely move outside of our comfort zone. We go from work to home and then we visit our group of friends and everything is extremely safe in those surroundings. When you travel you are forced to make new friends everyday and you have multiple new bubbles forming and popping all the time. You find new accommodation, new friends and new sights everyday day whilst you are on the road. This teaches you to adapt when you are travelling and you soon realise that there are many other people out in this world-well beyond your own.

Travel and communication with other people is the solution to the world’s problems provided you see each new person for who they really are.

How can you dislike a person who loves his family, values his community and reaches out to visitors?

The only way to do that is to fail to see the person in front of you as a new person and only see the shadow of a past enemy instead.

Travel and communication with live people, without prejudgement, and with understanding is the key to our survival as a human species.
That is a strong statement but it is true. The more people who travel and meet and talk to new people, the more peace we will have. It follows as naturally as the calm after the storm.

There are so many life lessons to be learned from travelling.

You can discover about me on my facebook profile:
https://www.facebook.com/andris.adhitra

Contribute to local economy as the price we paid for tourism.
I understand the achievement of spending nothing, during traveling, sounds like an award of saving so much and see much. Sounds like a greedy traveler for me.

I know that you are traveling on budget, I value your way of traveling saving every penny to be able to see more the world, as I did also, but it is nice also to contribute toward the destination we made impact to, as we are using resources of the destination, charging your phone water we use t take bath, you do not to paid me anything, but please try to contribute to local economy, spend your money at local store (try to avoid 7-11), use local bus sometime, (hitchhiking is fine though, but local bus need also income, buy some street food, or some craft from locals, I believe that what you had one good, will contribute good also to your life.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

One of my friend suggest me to join CouchSurfing, I met one of her surfer, and accompany him while he is around Jakarta.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My first couchsurfing experience that I host friends from England, Canada, and Malaysia, and stayed with friends in Hongkong and China, and after in USA, and Thailand.
The I start surfing in China and will never stop :)

Interests

If you’re traveling alone, you’ll be desperate for human interaction.

And guess what? Every other traveler is too! I’ve found it extremely rare to come across another traveler who isn’t eager to hear your story, where you’ve been, for how long, and your opinions and advice.

You can seriously build a global network even if you’re traveling for just a few days. It’s a beautiful thing to say that you’re friends with people around the planet, and you’re all bonded by one common trait: love for adventure and new experiences.

If you’re traveling alone, you’ll never really be alone, as there will always be someone wanting to tag along for an activity or just sitting next to other travelers on public trans. This is definitely my favorite part about traveling.

• culture
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• breakfast
• cocktails
• coffee
• running
• traveling
• eating out
• survival
• outdoor activities
• surfing
• business
• tourism
• hitchhiking
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

I love reading books about traveling, and some horror and thriller movie to spend the day off.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I had a very good experience with volunteering in India. To work with the children and the staff on the center for street children gave me a good opportunity to learn about the Indian culture. It was great to see smiles on the kids faces everyday when we arrived in the morning and did activities with them, especially because they already had/have such a troubled live. It gives hope they were in good hands in the center and that they can still enjoy small things and have opportunities for the future. The language barrier was a bit difficult in the beginning, but after some basic Hindi words and with mimics, this was also overcome. The most difficult thing was to having to say goodbye to this children and the wonderful people at the center and other people we met in India.

Teach, Learn, Share

It’s been called a passion. An obsession. A compulsion. It’s been applauded and criticized, held up as an enviable way of life and cautioned against as life threatening. The love of it is commonly compared to an insect bite.

So what is it about the idea of traveling, of seeing the world, that is as controversial as it is compelling? It seems like the most natural thing in the world (to me, anyway) to want to explore every corner of this planet. As a wise man once said, “It’s a big world, let’s go see some of it.”

Believe it or not, you can survive with very, very little and get by just fine. Most people around the world do. Traveling extensively forces you to pack so lightly that you’ll go home overwhelmed by how much you actually own. Not only that, but sleeping in rundown guesthouses, hostels with bed bugs, and tents pitched anywhere that you can find space really isn’t the end of the world, you just learn to live with it. Steering away from lavish meals on the town and fancy cocktails on outdoor patios is another experience you may have to sacrifice while traveling if you want to save enough to travel longer. As a result, you’ll come home and realize that you don’t need anything more than the essentials to survive.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Somehow I found that some surfers just look for free accommodation, sorry but it is not my idea of couchsurfing, if you just want to save some Baht for your alcohol intake, there are some guesthouse cheap enough to save your baht, that you do not need connection with the host.

After some not really nice experience, I need to explain something to you.

I value ideas, thinking, reason, motivation, I want to know more about you. So if your ideas of couchsurfing is free place, my place is not for you.

I have one private room with fan and kingsize bed (on the floor) for you.
We should share the bathroom, living room and kitchen.

The bathroom is equipped with warm shower.
I will provide you with clean towel, so yours still clean and dry. I know the burden of having wet towel all around.

I have a fridge that you can use to store your food. I normally share breakfast, usually easy toast, fruits and yogurt, tea and coffee.
I do not normally cook, as eating out is cheap.

Feel free to use anything, feel like home. I will lend you spare key, so feel free to come back anytime.

I am a student and not working now, I depending funding from University which is very tight, but it will never stop me to hosting you, so let's try to cooperate each other, help each other so the world will be better place for everyone.

There are some house rules that you might need to consider:

1. NO WIFI. It is my idea to let myself offline in my house. If you are heavily depending on Internet. I could not provide it. We better talk to each other.

2. There are two thing I hate. First is coriander leaf and washing the dish.
So if you can give some time to wash the dish you are using, that will be ease my burden :)

3. Please clean the bathroom, and bedroom for the courtesy for next couchsurfer.

4. I do not smoke, feel free to do so at the balcony or at any area, outside the house. I understand it is great to smoke while you are doing your toilet job. But it doesn't work for me.

5. My house is around the local area of local villagers, which mostly sleep early and get up early. So please reduce the noise after 9p.m.

6. After more then a year living in Thailand, my level of hygiene is improve, and as other most Thais do, I clean the house everyday, I will appreciate if you do help me for some of this work, for the sake of everyone.

7. To save the energy so please kindly use save the usage of electricity and water.

8. I do not have car, so if you want to go around, please use the public transport or rent a motorbike.
Sometime I will lend you my motorbike, feel free to use it. But refuel the gasoline after you use it, and please please take a good care of it.

9. You should never bring back strangers to the house without permission, nor disclose their address. Sleeping away is something disrespectful and not cool, couchsurfing is not a hotel where you can freely check in and check out.

http://thoughtcatalog.com/ahmed-amer/2014/08/couchsurfing-is-awesome/

10. If you want, you can join me teaching at the local school nearby. We will teaching English, and some of your story and culture.
The idea is to inspired student to travel and encourage them to speak English.

I am student, and received scholarship from the University, working some extra hours, so it is not an easy situation, I know and understand that you travel in budget, I do not ask you to pay anything, but let's use anything accordingly (water, electricity, gasoline), save the bill also the environment.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
I do not make the same mistake.

ABOUT ME

I am a wanderlust, believer, and a traveler. Indonesian, born and raise in southern tip of Sumatra Island, continue to University in Jakarta, work there for five years, having my own business, and now I am currently study for Master Study of Tourism Management in Mae Fah Luang University in Chiang Rai, Thailand.

So I am not Thai. I know only basic conversation of Thai, I can not read or write, a bit useless as a tour guide :) but I can help you out. There should be something we can do for you.

Mae Fah Luang University is 13 km north from the Chiang Rai toen, on the way to Mae Sai.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Morocco, Myanmar, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Indonesia, Thailand

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