CURRENT MISSION

Back in Umeå, unsuccessfully avoiding boredom.

ABOUT ME

I am extremely restless. Whenever I'm on the road I feel right at home and there's nothing I love more than discovering new places and the people in them. I am stubborn, ambitious, open-minded and caring. I'm selfconcious enough to think that it's embarrasing having to describe myself for other people to read. I love coffee and cigarettes and books by Haruki Murakami. I'm the happiest on a bus going to some foreign place with nothing but my backpack and a book.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surfed some couches in Melbourne, Australia, and met truly awesome people. It surprised me to discover how easy it is to feel at home in a strangers house and how hospitable most people are. I stayed with people I met other places than this site and loved how openminded and generous they were. Cant wait to host myself!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've passed out on peoples couches before (for various reasons) and surfed about 5 couches Down Under. I love the idea of the world becoming a smaller place where my home is everyones home.

Interests

*Travelling
*Art
*Scuba-diving.
*Coffee and cigarettes.
*Music
*Biology
*Reading and writing
*History
*Photograhpy

• arts
• writing
• books
• coffee
• working out
• flying
• reading
• traveling
• pottery
• music
• backpacking
• scuba diving
• snowboarding
• swimming
• biology
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Amelie de Montmarte, High Fidelity, Fight Club, Rabbitproof fence, Flight of the Conchords, Seinfeld and anything by Wes Andersen.

Music: The Cure, Dave Matthews band, Datarock, James Yuill, Manu Chao, Passion Pit, Led Zeppelin, Frank Zappa, Van Morrison, Lemon Jelly, Sting and the Police, Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Black kids, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Familjen, Jethro Tull, Bjork, FM Belfast, El Ten Eleven, LCD Soundsystem, La roux, Hakan Hellstrom and the Shout out Louds.

Books: Anything and everything by John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Par Nilsson, Roald Dahl, Sophie Dahl, Nicole Krauss, Haruki Murakami, Jack Kerouac, Tove Jansson, Jonathan Safran Foer, Michael Ende and many many many more! I also love everything written by the lovely Sandra Beijer.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Diving between the European and American continentalplates in Iceland. The water was three degrees and the visability was 100 meters - Amazing! It felt as though I was flying.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have a lot to learn, less to teach. I can obviously teach you Swedish (although I tried to teach an aussie Swedish for a whole year and I didn't quite work out). I can teach you how to swim, if you don't know how to do that yet, and how to carry 12 wineglasses in one hand. What else? Scuba-diving and embarrassingly enough I also know a fair bit of pottery. Snowboarding and smoking through your nostrils, if you for some strange reasons think that's an attractive skill to possess. That's about it!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bahrain, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Italy, Laos, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Norway, Sweden