CURRENT MISSIONS: Learn how to bake a cake; develop better navigational skills

Moved to Montreal 3 years ago, which is by far the best city in Canada (just in case you aren't from here and are wondering). I now live in Rosemont area bordering the Plateau and Mile End. I have one of those IKEA foldout couches that all the kids are talking about in the hip hop songs. I like to travel and live out of a suitcase, something I couldn't do when I was a younger, and now I just can't stop. I'm going to Europe on Sept 9, and can you believe it, it'll be my first time! I just got back from Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island on the East Coast of Canada where they have the best clam chowder (pronounced, How's your chowda dar, eh?) a place rumoured to have the same soil of Africa, but those rumours may just be for citidiots like me who get lost in the mountains because there's no GPS signal in those East Coast Highlands and so the locals just keep spinning me a yarn until I am fully stupefied. I've been a host, but never a guest, so this trip to Europe will be my first. Usually when I travel I actually pay to stay places, can you believe what I fool I am?

I recently had my "face read" on the beech in Halifax by a woman who apparently had a talent for that, which is impressive because there are no words on my face. She said I had the type of personality that shifted from creative to analytical like the tides and that wasn't the only sort of changes I was capable of and she listed various "contradictions" features of my personality (passion vs cold contemplation, joking a lot as a shield, but demonstrating surprising sincerity at unexpected moments, etc); she said I was generous, but also driven and capable of putting myself first; she said I was confident in my opinions, although skepticism was a powerful force I adhered to, always questioning my own assumptions. This was sort of spooky because that is how a less modest version of myself would describe myself. Oh, and by the way, I'm pretty much the best at modesty. Like totally better than anyone else at it.

Good conversation is in short supply, I treasure it when I find it and make life long friends that way.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting

Going to events

Wearing a lampshade on my head

See the world, baby!

Buying you decadent Quebecois food

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Excellent

Interests

Books, book stores, book shelves, philosophy, poker, literature, laughing, hiking, swimming, cycling, single entendres.

• books
• literature
• music
• coffeeshops

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Siri Hustvedt, Chris Kraus, Lydia Davis, Dostoevsky, Saul Bellow, Lynne Trusse, Dorothy Parker, Kafka, de Beauvoir, Paul Auster (three of these writers are related, but not by blood, and I'll buy you a pastry if you can tell me who and what the relation is, but I'm not sending you the pastry on Amazon, this is an in-person offer).

Music: most

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Given my poker winnings to the homeless

Teach, Learn, Share

Funny, Charming, Witty

What I Can Share with Hosts

Laughter, anecdotes that produce laughter, an ear (medium sized) for listening.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada