CURRENT MISSION

Go back to school

ABOUT ME

We are Danish-Peruvian a family of four living in Aalborg.
I'm 28 years old and live in Aalborg (about 5 kilmetres from the city centre) in the northern part of Denmark with my wife Nora, our 5-year-old daughter Astrid and 1-year-old Sebastian.

I am a student of Politics & Administration at Aalborg University, which lies very close to our
home.

When I'm not studying I spend most of my time with my little family and being active in a left-wing party called Enhedslisten (The Red-Green Alliance), in my trade-union, in different solidarity organisations (I usually translate, whenever activists from Latin America visit Aalborg), in the anti-EU Movement, and grass-roots initiatives against racism, helping out asylum-seekers etc.

PHILOSOPHY

Forever delayed.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Try to help people out with what we can.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had a lot of people sleeping over through the years, but I'm new on CS.
In June 2008 I surfed a couch in Fürth, Germany. It was a great experience.

Interests

Reading, politics, activism, music, travelling, family, cooking, friends.

• cooking
• partying
• politics
• reading
• traveling
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Manic Street Preachers, Chumbawamba, Ska-P, Manu Chao, Rage against the machine, John Lennon, The Beatles and many others.
Books:
I like reading books about political issues - both contemporary and historical. For the moment I'm reading a book on the new Latin-American Left by Swedish journalist Magnus Linton.
Movies:
I generally like European and Mexican films.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Having my kids and watching them grow older every day has been the most fascinating experience of my life. Seeing how they see things with new eyes, and how they explore and question everything is just great. I could go on for hours about them, and I probably will if you come visit us.

The most beautiful trip, I've ever travelled, was on horse-back with my wife in the northern Peruvian Andes in 2003.
We went on narrow paths about 3000 meters above sea level next to steep mountain sides near Uchucmarca - the village where my wife grew up.
The path and the whole terrain was completely unknown to me, but the horse knew where to step, so I had to confide completely that the horse knew where to step.
That was quite challenging to me because I had never before riden a horse - and now I had to trust my life to a horse!

Another cool experience in Peru was being an observer in the 2001 presidential elections - the first free elections after the end of the semi-dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori during the 1990s.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, Peru