📍Nicaragua
Lived in: 🇯🇵 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇻🇳 🇲🇨
Speak: 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇯🇵🇫🇷
Learning: 🇨🇳

🐧Early Bird
💡Productivity & Self-help Guru
📈Investing in ETFs, Stocks & P2P & most importantly in myself!

🌈Host & Producer:
Flying Colours, a Liveshow and podcast that looks behind the curtains of success

👉 flyingcolours.buzzsprout.com

🥢Co-Host & Producer
Bento Bureau, a podcast about 🇯🇵 from an international perspective

👉 bentobureau.podbean.com/

🚀Digital Policy Advisor in real life, interested in cybersecurity & AI

👨‍🎓Chairperson of the Tokyo International University’s Alumni Association / 東京国際大学EーTrack同窓会会長

Love for speciality ☕️

📖 reading a lot about spacetime, quantum mechanics, personal development & finances

👔Love connecting on LinkedIn, so hit me up @bastianharth

Hobbies & interests:

🤿⛳️🧘‍♂️🛫🪐🏃🎧⛩& more

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am on Couchsurfing because I am looking for a place to stay in New York. I love meeting new people, exchanging food/cultures/languages, and mutually sharing interests and knowledge with others. I also think that CS is the best way to learn about a country/city directly from a local host!

Interests

• theater
• photography
• meditation
• politics
• reading
• music
• guitar
• piano
• languages
• political science
• public policy
• learning new things
• japan
• international politics
• specialty coffee
• going to concerts
• model united nations

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Jazz: Miles Davis, Blues: BB King, Rock & Roll: Elvis Presley, Rock/Metal/Alternative: Native Construct, Led Zepplin, Hip Hop: Kendrick Lamar, Classical: Beethoven/Chopin/Vivaldi, Japanese: Ryuichi Sakamoto/Matsuko Uchida, literally every genre! Techno Hardstyle? Sure: Showtek. When it comes to music, I am not this kinda guy who just says that he listens to everything. I mean it. My father was a music teacher so I've got a lot of influence from him.

Movies:

Schindler's List, 2001 Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, the Grave of Fireflies, Pulp Fiction, the Dark Knight, the Silence of the Lambs, and the list goes on and on...

Books:

Animal Farm, the Lord of the Rings, Hobbit, Book Thief, Norwegian Wood, Tuesday's with Morris, Mastermind: How to think like Sherlock Holmes, The Clash of Civilizations,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I treasure so many moments in life, but if I would pick an overall experience, then I would pick my time in Vietnam; where I volunteered. I taught English and built up a project for rural communities in Sapa. The children who experienced tremendous hardship in life were inspiring. They went to school, came back for chores, took additionally English classes, prepared food, and did other additional work. Though, despite their hardships, they understood their privilege compared to other children in the area. They understood that most of the children cannot go to school and therefore, remained happy, thankful, and persevered.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Not really sure but: languages, organising, meditation, coffee-making.

Learn about: languages, cultures, food, people, coffee shops.

Share: Stories, languages, skills, time, and empathy.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can help with learning languages, chores, cooking, doing groceries, organising, washing, taking care of pets. I'll try whatever I can do for you! I have lived alone for several years, and therefore, I would call myself a well-organised and most importantly, clean person!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Indonesia, Japan, United Kingdom, Viet Nam