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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
To meet some new people and have a good time.
ABOUT ME
Hey everybody! I just finished traveling through Brazil for the world cup, and now I'm off to my next adventure of living/working in Qatar at a special needs school. I've just started but so far Qatar has been a pretty fun little country. I'm a pretty easy going guy and I love to do sports - if you wanna know more feel free to check out my references to get a better idea of who I am :)
06/2019 Update: Just left Qatar after 5 amazing years working with special needs students; I am hoping to do some more shadowing of different education systems and special needs things (if you are an educator/sped person and I'm traveling through, lets chat!), and I'll be taking the year off to travel and try to learn French and Arabic :)
5/20/21 Update - living in NYC now - Williamsburg with 2 friends :)
Hopefully our paths can cross!
PHILOSOPHY
People are people, regardless of where you go. They may come from different areas or speak different languages and have different customs, but at the end of the day people want to make a bit of money, they want well for their families, and they want to enjoy life.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
I'm here for people to come stay with or if I'm busy to stop by the house if we're having a party or something. We can plug you into our networking and you can get a kind of authentic feel for this area, and when I go travel that's exactly what I like to do.
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Dennis - Amsterdam
Vitor - Berlin
Michael - Munich
Sunny - Budapest
Kiera - Tata
Luccka - Trnava
Isabella - Krakow
Hartwig - Vienna
Michael.S - Munich
Giuseppe - Rome
Federica - Pistoia
Clara - Genoa
Interests
I love all kinds of sports, and I really like to learn about culture first hand, as an insider looking out as opposed to an outsider looking in.
- culture
- partying
- traveling
- sports
- world cup
- languages
Music, Movies, and Books
Seven Pounds, Click, The Repairman Jack series, Entourage, The Rock, Gladiator, Tears of the Sun, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Walked from Switzerland to Germany, Germany to France, and France back to Switzerland, in one day :)
visited 26 states (11.5%)Create your own visited map of The World or another interesting project
Teach, Learn, Share
I'm learning Arabic (very slowly haha), but I might be able to shoot a bit of knowledge your way - also, life in Qatar is different in general from anywhere else I've lived before, so just culturally there's lots to learn. I'll teach you anything about the langauges I know happily, and if you need tips on places I've travelled I'd love to share that as well - as for learning; I'll pick up anything you're willing to put down :)
Countries I’ve Visited
Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Countries I’ve Lived In
Brazil, Qatar, United States