CURRENT MISSION

To tour Europe while I'm still young

ABOUT ME

I enjoy a diverse choice of activities. I also run my own company and am living now in Europe. I am in hopes to travel Europe and see the continent. My frist time in Europe was a term abroad in Prague. I loved the time there so much, I moved back for graduate school - and now work as a proper expat in Prague. I'm always looking for new things to experience and to enjoy life with, so Europe - Here I Come!

PHILOSOPHY

Before Prague, I was interested in my future and planning everything out... Now I see the beauty in spontaneity and I want to enjoy it for the few years I have left before the world of 9-5 with climbing debt...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Sadly, my town gets a grand total of 5 or 6 tourists a year who end up in my town by getting lost on their way to the local fishing hot-spots, so what I can offer to CS is amazingly limited. However, I have stayed with a few people over the past year - and have enjoyed every minute. I am presently trying to update my profile to Prague, and will be willing/able to host on a weekend basis this summer.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have couch surfed in: Dresden, Germany - Budapest, Hungary - Prague, Czech Republic - Munich, Germany - Vienna, Austria - and Washington D.C., USA so far, and plans for more soon!

Interests

I spend way too much time on the computer, either with business or a video game, but I am trying to change it. I also spend way too much time watching TV, but living ina country which I hardly understand broadcast TV certainly helps curb that addiction. Now I am starting to read much more often (although mostly Czech writers), and am listening to more music. I don't go anywhere without my iPod which is loaded up with like 13,000 songs.... So I really honestly do listen to everything from Miles Davis to Slip Knot... Although a very diverse music collection, I really do enjoy 90% of the music on it!

• beauty
• education
• running
• tv
• traveling
• music
• cycling
• fishing
• rock climbing
• business
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Alkaline Trio, Alvik, A Perfect Circle, Anberlin, The Beatles, Delerium, The Dresden Dolls, Fall Out Boy, Franz Ferdinand, Gorillaz, Green Day, Groove Armada, Hooverphonic, Jirí Pavlica, Khoiba, Laika, Metallica, The Misfits, Modest Mouse, Mum, Pixies, Raduza, Seatbelts, Sigur Ros, Soil, Sublime, Tool, Vopli Vidopliassova, Zuzana Navarova

Movies: Vanilla Sky, Butterfly Effect, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine on the Spottless Mind, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Airplane, Phantom of the Opera, I Served the King of England, aka, Obsluhoval Jsem Anglickeho Krale, Beautiful Mind

Books: Anyhting not bought at the college bookstore, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera, Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, Too Loud a Solitude, Bohumil Hrabal, A Clockwork Orange, The Economist magazine

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I had hopes to bike from Prague to Paris and back this fall, but in the effort to get more people interested it fell apart into a 10 day trip around Holland.... But hey, that's still a lot of kilometers, and it was one hell of a ride!

Teach, Learn, Share

Not really sure what thoughts this is intended to provoke. I work in the education industry trying to help students interested in studying in London get accepted to programmes - if that is worth anything!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, Slovakia, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, United States