CURRENT MISSION

Improve my Mandarin, and see and discover China

ABOUT ME

Tourist guide and translator.
Former excellent chess player; singer (rock'n'roll and church); sax player (mediocre). Speaks four plus languages.
Reliable, friendly, hospitable, sincere, honest, cultured, fit, faithful to friends and wife, inquisitive, knowledge-lover.

PHILOSOPHY

Try to be yourself as often as possible.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None until now, just through my children!

Interests

Language learning, humanities, poetry, music (jazz, rock, Indian, world, and of course Greek), movies, chess, singing, art (loving, not practicing), bicycle riding, walking, hiking. For quite a few years I've been learning Mandarin and some Chinese culture and literature. I would like to learn both better.

• dogs
• arts
• culture
• humanities
• literature
• poetry
• singing
• walking
• movies
• chess
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• languages
• tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Jazz; Rock; Classical Western; Classical Indian; Classical Chinese; Folk Chinese; 崔健，谢天笑，低苦艾！

Seppuku (Kobayashi), Ikiru (Kurosawa); Farewell my Concubine (Chen Kaige); Les Liaisons Dangeureuses (Stephen Frears); Solaris (Andrej Tarkovski).

Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, among thousands of others.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Looked at nice sunrises and sunsets, at dusk in the city; listened to dogs barking in the distance at night and watched the starry sky. I've nothing "amazing" to brag about, or if I have, I won't disclose it just like that.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: My native language (Greek) and all the other languages and things that I know. (see Interests)

Learn: more Mandarin and Chinese culture.

Countries I’ve Visited

Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Romania, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Greece