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Overview

  • 14 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning German
  • 36, Male
  • Member since 2010
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Live life to its fullest!

ABOUT ME

I am very friendly, love to go out, have fun, travel to different countries and experience new cultures and ways of life. I am willing to try anything once and being English of course I have a huge sarcastic side to me and love sharing where I am from and about old English culture.

If you know me you'll know im a very easy person to speak to, and I love making people laugh and generally having a laugh.

I grew up in Germany as a kid and then finished my school in England and left on my 18th birthday. I have literally travelled my whole life and make it a goal to change the country I live in every 6 months. So far I've lived in 10 countries and loved every place I've been.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm in love with travelling, I love meeting travellers. there's nothing better than meeting people from all over the world and sharing crazy stories and getting ideas for the next crazy adventure. YOLO.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have only had positive experiences. I have stayed in touch with most of them and they are now some of my best friends. When living in colombia i started playing the friday football on couch surfing and we became a close group. Also i made some amazing friends around the world plus ive just started hosting and its great fun being on the other end

Interests

I love football, hiking, cycling, netball, flower arranging and languages but mostly i like doing extreme sports like snowboarding, skydiving and bungee jumping. give me a challenge and ill be sure to give it a go.

Music, Movies, and Books

I must say I do love going to house festivals. Also after spending a lot of time in Latin America I grew to love regeatton and ended up going to all of the concerts. I love harry potter books, travel books, self help books, language books, anything really

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Doing the nevis bungy in New zealand.
Cook marshmellows in flowing lava in Guatemala
Sledge down a volcano in Nicaragua
Skydive in oz
Trekking the lost city in Colombia
Becoming a divemaster in Thailand
Island hopping in Fiji plus
Sneaking into San Pedro prison in Bolivia
Iguazzu Falls
10 day silent meditation retreat in Thailand
Going to the Himalyas in India
Learning to free dive
Jumping off of the James Bond Bungee in Switzerland
Sending the Ski season in Austria

Teach, Learn, Share

Being an English teacher I can definitely help to English to people. I am going to relearn german again in hamburg so if anyone wants to help let's do it :)

Also I have written a book which is about my crazy life, which will be finished im hoping at some point next year. Editing is an absolute bitch haha. I can certainly share my stories with you. You might be listening for a while though haha

What I Can Share with Hosts

Languages, stories, fun

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Fiji, France, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Colombia, Cyprus, Germany, Malaysia, Panama, Thailand, United Kingdom

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