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Overview

  • 5 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Chinese, French
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • Director, Elevate Shanghai
  • MA Arts and Cultural Management
  • From Frome, UK
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About Me

ABOUT ME

Originally from the UK, but now live in Shanghai running an arts company. I put on exhibitions, events, and help artists sell their work.

Love meeting new people and hearing their stories, learning about what they do and who they are. I'm an extremely open-minded person, and I genuinely want to hear what people think.

Laughing always comes first. Dancing second.

I wanna know and feel everything there is to know and feel. Apart from maybe civil engineering. Sorry civil engineers, but fuck, designing waste systems? Gotta be kidding me. I'd rather sit on a hedgehog.

Adventures!

PHILOSOPHY

I feel like people would be better off if they looked for the comedy, the beauty, and the ridiculousness in everything.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm in Shanghai now and can't host for the moment, but I'd love to meet up and explore or grab a drink.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've surfed and hosted a number of times, throughout Europe and the UK. I've also gone to some CS meetups.

Interests

Music, books, film, art, food, politics, all the good stuff.

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • documentaries
  • beauty
  • dancing
  • dining
  • drinking
  • politics
  • movies
  • music
  • engineering
  • hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

My tastes are broad, but I know what I like, and I know what I don't like; in music from classical to jazz to techno to reggae; in books from Hunter S. Thompson to Murakami to Kerouac; in films from Drive to Ponyo to Pulp Fiction.

I love the Beat Generation big time. Everything they stood for strikes chords with me all over (well, apart from their suspect attitudes towards women).

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Meet me and I'll tell you plenty of things.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Netherlands

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