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Overview

  • 8 references 4 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English; learning French, Korean, Spanish
  • 40, Other
  • Member since 2010
  • Transport Designer turned Teacher and Entrepreneur; Engli...
  • The University of Life
  • From Wellington, New Zealand; Chesterville, Canada
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Round the World and Location Independence

ABOUT ME

Hi all, we love travel and meeting new people. Edwin has a passion for learning languages, lifestyle design and currently does internet marketing and design in Toronto.Kristin is currently teaching English here in Toronto and has a passion for theatre.We have traveled extensively through Asia, around South and North America and hope to see more of Europe and Africa one day. We are both easy going people that love to travel and love experiencing new cultures. We also love drunken Karaoke nights and live music.

PHILOSOPHY

Life's too short to save it all for the end.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Couchsurfed in Brazil and have a couch available in Toronto, Canada

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Hosted people in Korea & Canada. Couchsurfed in Brazil. Crashed on a ton of couches throughout New Zealand and Canada.

Interests

Language Learning and Teaching
Meeting new people
Website and Tech Stuff
Entrepreneurship
Lifestyle Hacks/ Design
Partying
Experiencing new culture
Teaching English
Theatre and performing arts

  • arts
  • culture
  • performing arts
  • design
  • acting
  • partying
  • technology
  • traveling
  • music
  • live music
  • karaoke
  • camping
  • teaching
  • entrepreneurship
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Gomez
Tokyo Police Club
Girl Talk
Classic Rock, 80s, 90s dance music, Irish, Celtic punk,
Jason Mraz
The Tragically Hip
Business/ entrepreneur type Non-Fiction Books
4-Hour Workweek
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
Three Cups of Tea
Travel Memoirs
1984, Brave New World, and other Sci Fi

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swam with a whale-shark in the Philippines. Swam with Pink Dolphins in the Amazon.Visited Elephant Rescue camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Teach, Learn, Share

ESL teacher, so can teach English. Also an avid language enthusiast, so can help you on how to learn languages.

Also have design skills, so can photoshop anything and teach or design you any web stuff.

Created an English theatre company in Korea, so have experience in Production Managing, Stage Managing and Acting and would love to share about experiences in the theatre world!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Cuba, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, North Korea, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, South Korea

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