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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
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ABOUT ME
Somewhat enigmatic.
PHILOSOPHY
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Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
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COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
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Interests
Listening to and making Music (orchestral and electronic), Snowboarding (when I have some money), Travel (obviously), Photography, Architecture (mainly complaining about it), watching good Films (probably not Hollywood), enjoying a good bottle of wine or beer on a summer evening... I'm doing a PhD on the social impacts of economic relations between different ethnic groups in cities, with fieldwork in Krasnodar, Russia and Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
- architecture
- photography
- wine
- beer
- movies
- traveling
- music
- snowboarding
Music, Movies, and Books
I like watching: Time of the Wolf, The Untouchables, The Fool of the World & The Flying Ship, North by Northwest, and a few others. I like listening to a lot of stuff, but especially Legowelt, The KLF, 1980s stuff like Alphaville Big in Japan - I'm a percussionist so has to be rhythmic.. Often I get bored by fiction and stop reading books before I get to the end, but recently I've liked reading Haruki Murakami 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' and Herman Hesse 'Steppenwolf'.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
I travelled around the world for thirteen months when I was 18 years old. That was probably more naive than amazing.. I've worked for the UN and the World Bank-- that has been fascinating. Have been to some unusual countries and quasi-states with names people think are fabricated.
Teach, Learn, Share
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Countries I’ve Visited
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Croatia, Egypt, Fiji, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Moldova, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Palestine, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Countries I’ve Lived In
Colombia, France, United Kingdom, United States
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