CURRENT MISSION

Go to the top of Mount Everest before I'm 58.

ABOUT ME

I love sports, mostly orienteering and rock climbing. I love forests, mountains and freedom. I want to travel all around the world.

After high school I graduated as a special needs assistant and few years later as a wilderness guide. Few years later I continued a bit more and I studied the bachelor of social services + kindergarten teacher from Diaconia University of Applied Sciences. I am interested in outdoor adventure education and special education.

I grew up in Oulu, Finland. I have lived few years in Helsinki, one year in a tiny village called Muonio in Finland's Lapland, two summers in Joensuu in Eastern Finland, a year in Australia and 3 months in Kathmandu, Nepal. I have traveled almost everywhere in Finland and Australia. At the moment I am travelling around New Zealand.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed a couch in Netherlands, Italy, Estonia, Australia and New Zealand and went to a cs meeting in Italy, Finland, Australia and Netherlands.

When I lived in Oulu in a sort of a hippie community, we hosted some nice Couchsurfing guests. I've also hosted in Townsville, Australia.

Once I experienced a nudist home where we and everyone else dressed according to the code. This was topped off with some rubber ducks. Pure awesomeness.

Another time I hosted an awesome dude in Townsville whom I of course later met in Darwin since he was around. I also once met a great man in Milan who taught me tango in a couchsurfing event and who a year later hosted me in Melbourne and taught me some more!

Interests

Sports; orienteering, hiking, snowboarding, skiing, rock climbing, bouldering, floorball, basketball, swamp football, surfing, ski-orienteering, roller skiing... and mountains, beer, coffee, psychology, politics, cheese, scouting, cameras, photographing, people, all the new things, world, music, words, travel, hitchhiking, life.

I love maps.

• education
• beer
• coffee
• politics
• traveling
• bouldering
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• surfing
• skiing
• snowboarding
• sports
• basketball
• rock climbing
• teaching
• psychology
• social work
• hitchhiking
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

I love music, movies and books. I can play a bit violin and piano and I singing but badly. I like horror movies and of course I love horrible Finnish movies. I read everything. Mostly maps.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Got lost in a glacier, went to the highest mountain of Nordic Countries. I have been on top of Finland's, Sweden's, Norway's, Spain's, Great Britain's and Australia's highest mountain.

Teach, Learn, Share

In Finland there is sometimes -40 degrees and I'm still alive. I can roll in the snow, naked, and I'm still alive. I can teach you how to drink beer like a real Finnish man. Santa is from Finland. I can teach you how to survive Finland's dark winter.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Finland, Nepal, New Zealand

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