HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Kaya, moorditj maam, moorditj yorga, wandju wandju. (Noongar for : hello good man, good woman, welcome together). I am 64 and have a lot of life experience so far. I run 3 different non-profit organisations from my house : 1. Sustainable Urban Nutrition (SUN) www.sunoz.org.au : an urban food project I prefer that people staying at the house are at least interested in this sort of thing and ideally prepared to participate by helping out (not compulsory). 2. ANTaR WA - we work for 'justice rights and respect for Aboriginal people 3. Secretary of the Australian City Farm and Community Garden Network This keeps me quite busy so whether I can spend time with CSers depends on what I have on and whether they get involved in what I am doing at the time. The house is a shared house with most people being younger than me so there is usually someone else here who can help host you as well. I host people for 3 days which gives them time to get to know Perth and get things like bank accounts, tax file numbers etc organised - after that they can either help around the property or on my projects for an hour a day and/or pay rent. There is often an empty van available and we have some camping gear as well. You can check me out on FB (https://www.facebook.com/john.mcbain1 ) and my YouTube site (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMvLJXrYCONFnQnXz823Ggw?view_as=public) and you can check out SUN at www.sunoz.org.au Some of the latest SUN media (updated June 2017) : 1. Ale from Argentina, SUN/FUN! https://youtu.be/Y1fJ_GpIcFE 2. How SUN works. https://youtu.be/sqvH6JgP-Uc 3. SUN for Aboriginal communities. https://youtu.be/tsxFTNyeW-A My address is 188 Canning Highway in South Perth and there are 910 bus route stops at my front gate (stop number 10336 from Fremantle & 10233 from Perth). For much of the year we have SUN busy bees and bbq on Sundays, starting about 2pm and bbq about SUNset - https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/sun-busy-bee-and-bbq-south-perth COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE I have never been a CS guest. I have slept on a few couches in my time, and in places where a worn out flea ridden couch seemed like upper class living. Now I sleep in a bed and accommodate others. Have surfed in a yacht thru bass strait in a force 11 storm tho.

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