CURRENT MISSION

Enriching myself and the world (I don't mean financially! Not that that does any harm either)

ABOUT ME

I'm a 25 year old guy and I'd describe myself as laid back and accepting. My "mission" was a surprisingly easy question to answer for me, as I have been very much focussed for the last few years on self development and 'improvement', which takes a variety of forms, from learning new things, to learning to like new foods, to insisting on trying new things, avoiding regrets and improving my healt hand self esteem.

I'm educated and friendly, prefer smaller parties to huge ones but still know how to have a good time, I like bushwalking and sitting around chatting with friends.

I live on the outer northside of Brisbane, but bizarrely have a weekend job which I love in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast.

PHILOSOPHY

I put a bit of this in "all about me" but some key words are: accepting difference and others, care and empathy, openmindedness, thinking outside the routine, challenging myself to grow, being supportive.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

At this time I am just meeting new and interesting people, and in time I hope to be able to give a fuller answer to this question.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My couchsurfing experience lies principally in having spent nearly every Saturday night of 2009 sleeping in my mate's bed or couch in Labrador (depending on whether he had a girlfriend over that night or not). Now that he's moved to Brisbane and I'm still working weekends on the Gold Coast, my couchsurfing experience is probably about to become a whole lot less predictable.

Interests

Philosophy, the mind, bush walking, ethics, laughter filled occasions, food and cooking, dreams and dreaming - both the awake and especially the asleep varieties.

• ethics
• dining
• cooking
• walking
• partying
• mathematics
• psychology
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Fight Club, American Psycho, Stanley Kubrik films, French New Wave cinema (e.g. 400 Blows, Le Weekend), Sci-Fi.

Varied tastes in music, from psych-trance to Broadway musicals to Radiohead.

The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle and other Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Raymond E Fiest's fantasy universe, essays of Gore Vidal, The Velvet Rage, Lost Boys, Plato, especially The Symposium and The Phaedrus, the Hanibal Lecter books, Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, Nineteen Eighty-Four... this could go on and on. Better to ask.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Let me reflect on this before coming back to answer.

Teach, Learn, Share

I studied science and mathematics for a year.

Psychology for two years.

Philosophy for four years including postgrad.

This Couchsurfing University could be very interesting.

Countries I’ve Visited

Italy, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France

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