The best way to learn about me is to check out my social media:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCvOjvgFPJ9upfUuCZ_la-vA
www.instagram.com/danielshields.io
www.facebook.com/danielshields.io

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I've met lots of great people and had lots of great experiences staying in hostels while traveling, but I find its often hard to meet locals because I spend so much time with the people I meet in the hostel.

I'm hoping that Couchsurfing will give me a different kind of experience that lets me form friendships and experience the culture of the places I travel to.

I also love learning new languages, and I would love opportunities to try speaking languages I've been studying and to teach you a language.

Interests

I'm an extremely curious person, so I have a lot of interests. The odds are good that I'm interested in what you're interested in.

A major focus for me recently is social media based entrepreneurship. I'm trying to figure out how to sustain my passions and skills by translating them into content that will be beneficial to other people.

On of my biggest interests is languages. I'm currently studying a large variety of languages, and plan to learn many more.

You probably won't be surprised to hear that I'm interested in travel. I'm hoping to spend most of my life traveling to different countries, learning their languages, experiencing their culture, and sharing that journey on social media.

I'm interested in dance, especially contemporary dance. Contact improvisation and Butoh are two of my biggest interests.

Contact improvisation is interesting because it is a very direct way of communicating without language and one of the most reliable ways to enter into a flow state.

Butoh is interesting because it provides tools for exploring and expressing the deeper, weirder currents in the psyche.

I enjoy Brazillian Jiujitsu, which I got a chance to study in Uruguay. I'm relatively inexperienced with it, but it is something I am going to be looking for opportunities to practice in the future.

I'm interested in health and fitness so that I can be physically prepared to dance and play and to look and feel good while doing it.

I am interested gymnastic strength training, strongman training, physical therapy, and nutrition.

I'm interested in books, movies, music, and art of all kinds. I'm also interested in seeing something new. I really like using art as a way of learning about other cultures and languages.

I'm interested in philosophy, design, science, and futurism. I enjoying thinking about the nature of reality in an abstract sense, what my vision of the good life is, and what trends I expect to play out in the future.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about how social media, cryptography, robotics, and other technologies are going to cause a transition towards decentralization.

I'm very interested in permaculture and sustainable architecture.

I've had some successful and gratifying experiences practicing small scale permaculture, and hope to visit farms and sustainable communities during my travels.

I have a long term dream of building my own house and designing a permaculture system, and producing a documentary about the experience.

• photography
• film making
• meditation
• language exchange
• learning languages
• permaculture
• contact improvisation
• contemporary dance
• vlogging
• butoh
• brazilian jiu jitsu

Music, Movies, and Books

Books:
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
El Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss
Naive. Super by Erlend Loe
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
I Remember You by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjon
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Waters
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

Music:
Venetian Snares
Shpongle
Sutrah
Ratatat
Dengue Dengue Dengue
Caravan Palace
Bela Bartok
David Hykes
Huun Huur Tu

Movies:
The Holy Mountain
Attack on Titan
The Wave (Die Welle)
Trollhunter
My Diner With Andre
The Sunset Limited
Samsara
Fantastic Planet
Synecdoche New York
Kirikou and the Sorceress
Liquid Sky
The Shutka Book of Records
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Ten Canoes
Dogville
Manufactured Landscapes
The Color of Pomegranates
Rivers and Tides

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I fasted for 5 days.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you how to learn a language quickly, how to get fit, and about my wide range of interests.

I would like to learn your language, your culture, and your interests.

We can share conversation, language exchange, meals, and experiences.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my stories, my languages, my skills, and my knowledge.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Romania, United States, Uruguay