Ahoj / Hi there!

****Please excuse my profile being in English. I’m learning VERY basic Czech, though I'm not very far along.****

I hail from the San Francisco bay area in California, though I’m currently based in Berlin. I'm a easygoing, clean, considerate, respectful, low-maintenance guest. Although I don’t have much experience with the Couchsurfing site itself, I’m not new to being a guest in other people's homes.

After finishing up university at UC Santa Cruz, California, I worked for a couple years in a startup which develops software for builders to use in designing solar panel installations on homes (http://get.solardesigntool.com/), and pursued music on the side with my former band, Ostrich Unbreakable (https://youtu.be/pNar2XJA7b8, in case you’re intrigued by the name).

For roughly the past year I’ve been going after music more full time, mostly focusing on bouncy, melodic solo stuff and one-off collaborations with other artists (for example - https://soundcloud.com/ethan-miska/push-it-to-the).

I’m traveling to Prague and am looking forward to connecting with more friendly folks along the way, including but not limited to those who would be so kind as to host a dude from California for a night.

Oh, and I’m also really into castles. And really old stuff in general.

Thanks for reading!

Ethan

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I enjoy meeting folks in all corners of the world. I'm also just happy to have a couch to crash on for the night.

Interests

Bass guitar, electronic music, social experiments, history, travel, attempting to learn languages, conversations with strangers, running, urban exploration, croissants, food in general

• homebrewing
• music
• hiking
• volleyball
• history
• languages
• bicycling
• maps
• hammocks
• philosophizing
• german language
• swimming,
• old stuff
• medieval architecture
• globes
• really long walks
• overdoing it

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Red hot chili peppers, Ratatat, Pretty Lights, The Beatles, Sam Cooke, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Tube & Berger, Dirty Doering, Daft Punk, Deadmau5, Justice, Hans Zimmer, Ennio Morricone

Books: Calvin & Hobbes, the Golden Compass / His Dark Materials, The Lord of the Rings, the Count of Monte Cristo, Holes, Game of Thrones, biographies

Movies: Pan's Labyrinth, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, LOTR, Road to El Dorado, Death at a Funeral

Series: Monty Python's Flying Circus

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rolled 120 burritos in one go (see last profile picture for idea of what 1/3 of this looks like).

Teach, Learn, Share

Music, solar photovoltaics, random historical trivia, life hacks

What I Can Share with Hosts

Cooking, helping with chores, tidying, dry humor, live musical performance, balancing objects on chin

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Peru, Poland, Spain, Togo, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Ghana, United States