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Overview

  • 2 references 2 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Hungarian
  • Unspecified age, Male
  • Member since 2005
  • PhD student
  • University
  • From Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To stay in one place for 3 years

ABOUT ME

I'm easygoing (personality travels more like a train than a rollercoaster) but ambitious. I love to travel but tend to move places and explore. I'm not sure what I want out of life but feel that I'm going in the right direction anyways.

PHILOSOPHY

You're not lost if you don't care where you are.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Informally, lots. Through CS I've hosted Liina and her friend Ele while I was living in Hungary and I've stayed with Rowan when I was up in Sheffield. When I was moving to Cardiff I got loads of great advice through CS from people who knew the city.

Interests

Travelling, reading, (ice) hockey, camping, guitar, snowboarding....

  • reading
  • traveling
  • guitar
  • camping
  • snorkeling
  • snowboarding
  • hockey

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: A Sunday at the pool in Kigali (Gil Courtemanche), Fierce invalids home from hot climates (Tom Robbins), A prayer for Owen Meany (John Irvine), Snowcrash (Neil Stephenson), Scrubs on Skates (Scott Young).
Movies: Black cat White cat, 5th Element, Youngblood, Strange Brew, Wilbur wants to kill himself, Slapshot, Being John Malkovich...
Music: Great Big Sea, the Coral, Dead Kennedys, Dan Bern, The hip, Franz Ferdinand, Hot Jazz Band, 2pac, Kings of Leon, RHCP....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Watched storms roll in from a lighthouse on Lake Erie, camping trips where I didn't see other people for days, grape harvest in Hungary, Hogmanay in Edinburgh, Canada Day in Geneva, bartending on matthew st. in Liverpool, getting lost in a blizzard on a lake in N. Canada, snorkeling off the coast of mexico....

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Netherlands, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom

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