CURRENT MISSIONS

Current mission: Exploring the art scene in Berlin for 5 months, shooting three short films. Future missions: Spend three months in Tokyo shooting another short and finishing a documentary about the Golden Gai bar district. Exploring Antarctica by ship from Argentina. Recently completed missions: Went from Southampton to New York by ocean liner in November 2023, following the same route as Titanic (luckily not literally, hehe). Traveled from Stockholm to Tokyo by land and sea (including seven days on the Trans-Siberian Express!) in 2017, and in 2022 spent a month in Barcelona with my cat Kafka (he is joining me in Berlin as well!).

ABOUT ME

I'm a writer and adventurer, always looking for new inspiration. People sometimes say I should plan more ahead, but I believe life is best lived with a good book and flowing sake cup under a blossoming cherry tree... because you never know if you will be able to experience it again. Mono no aware, as they say in Japanese. And I like meeting new and interesting people that inspire me. For the past two years I've been working on and recently completed a mystery thriller short film, a dark love letter to 1920s Stockholm. I'm also writing a novel set in 1950s Buenos Aires.

Also, I'm a night owl and not an early riser, haha.

PHILOSOPHY

Mono no aware (see above).

Homepage: https://danasenlund.wordpress.com/

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Surfing and hosting (mostly hosting). Meeting new inspiring people from all corners of the world and walks of life.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted a full kaleidoscope of people from all over the world and enjoyed (almost) every minute of it. :)

Interests

Exploring shady back alleys in rural Kyushu.
Good coffee.
Good books.
Films and filmmaking.
Adventuring.
Beer and darts!
The 1920s.
日本文化
한국
복분자

• writing
• books
• film making
• beer
• coffee
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• darts
• soccer

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Lost in Translation, The Bird People in China, Pulse (回路), Mulholland Drive, etc. Directors: David Lynch, John Carpenter, Sofia Coppola, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinya Tsukamoto, etc.

Music: Weezer, Oasis, Brainpool, The Rentals, Simon and Garfunkel, Leonard Cohen, Au Revoir Simone, Slowdive, Pulp, Kent.

Books (authors): Haruki Murakami, Franz Kafka, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Yasunari Kawabata, Banana Yoshimoto, Jorge Luis Borges.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Been on various TV shows in Korea, Japan and Sweden. :)

Traveled by ship back and forth across the Atlantic and by train from Stockholm to the Far East, including the full length of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach Japanese, filmmaking and anything related to the 1920s. (I also have two massage diplomas, although mentioning that here might give the wrong idea, haha.)

What I Can Share with Hosts

Fun and crazy adventures, hopefully. :) (And tell stories of such.)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russian Federation, San Marino, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, South Korea, Sweden, United States