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Overview

  • 12 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Finnish; learning Spanish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Photographer
  • Graduated from Turku university of applied sciences as en...
  • From Salo, Finland Proper, Finland
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About Me

A nature and animal loving guy here. Others told me, that I am genuine. I am someone who really cares about the world and is trying to find steps to take towards changing it to better somehow. Even if I am now unemployed, I dream of helping the nature and the animals in some way.

The world is full of things that interest me. Books and literature, poetry, going to good concerts and gigs, drawing or photography, spending time outside / in a nearby forest, watching the stars or the birds beyond the my front window in the rowan tree, volunteering for an environmental organization, going to a course in the city, meeting some people, or something completely different.

I eat mostly vegetarian / plant based food. I do have some skills in cooking and baking, and it would be great to do that together with other people. I try to follow a healthy lifestyle, though it's very easy for me to drink too much caffeine (which is why I now have mostly stopped drinking coffee and black tea). I am up for drinking wine or so together, even if I generally am mostly alcohol-free in my life.

I like doing yoga, yet after having done ashtanga for 2-3 years I yearn something with more variety in the asanas. (Hatha brings good feeling, kundalini yoga I have tried few times.) I did a course on contact improvisation and intend to continue doing it and getting more experience. I have been going to a course on acrobatics and damn, I like that. Handstands and other things.

I also follow my spiritual path, wherever it may lead me. I have probably benefitted from it somehow after all the years, perhaps so that my worldview is like it is. I never went the reiki path, but experienced with the energies on my own.

If you come here during the summer (or maybe autumn or spring), lets go running barefoot to the forests that grow close here! I love being barefoot in the nature, on the moss, rocks, whatever. And I am fond of ice hole swimming too.

I am conscious about always respecting other living beings (humans and all the others), their boundaries and taking others into account.

I believe that everything is possible, and that I don't really know anything. That the change is constant. These words somehow feel good to me. I respect life and like to wonder about the endless amount of ways the world comes visible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I will travel to Venice, Italy on 22th of july and look for a place to stay 1-2 nights in either Venice or Trieste.

I would like to meet kind and amazing people while travelling, which is why I am using this website.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have been inactive in Couchsurfing for many years prior to now. In 2018 I travelled in England and had several different hosts. In the past I have hosted few times in Finland as well as couchsurfed in Netherlands in 2009.

Interests

Nature, stars, games, sports, activities, parties, books, art (music, poetry, drawing for example), other people, getting friends, cooking.

  • animals
  • arts
  • books
  • poetry
  • cooking
  • yoga
  • meditation
  • partying
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • sports
  • languages
  • spirituality
  • reading books
  • cuddling
  • acrobatics
  • spiritual growth

Music, Movies, and Books

Alltime musical artist for me is Delerium. My musical taste is quite wide and broad.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen the tracks of wolves and heard them howl far in the distance, during a winter evening in Finland.

Teach, Learn, Share

I am a skilled photographer, a poet. I can teach people to play guitar. I can maybe teach meditation and about my world view, which has to do with the spirituality of the nature, that everything is possible.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Conversations about a great range of topics, as I am very interested in an endless amount of things, and as I am with an open mind ready to learn from others, or teach something to others.

Company for cooking good food! Or doing something else, such as playing (games, jamming with musical instruments, singing...), going to the nearby nature, whatever comes to the mind.

My own genuine self.

Countries I’ve Visited

Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, Sweden, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Spain

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