My instagram is @jandaumin where I share my improvement with the juggling tricks as well as some travel stories.

Welcome to my profile

I am a German show artist and I like my everyday life. Travelling is not the core of my life, but as soon as I have some money left over, I normally spend it on travels. I like to experience the culture and the people. Travelling helps us all to connect and diminish cultural barriers and prejudices. I have czech and french citizenship.

Before I was studying at Erlangen-Nürnberg University, but I finished studying this year in April. Now I am working as a show artist and we are teaching juggling to the children. We travel to different places in Germany, mainly in the south with our colleagues where everyone has his own speciality (aerials, breakdance, etc.) and I have juggling.

Apart from work I really like to listen to music and also hang out with friends. One of my hobbies is also doing sports where I like soccer and swimming best. Before it used to be easier to find people from university to play soccer, but now since everyone has either moved away or is busy with other things it is a bit difficult to get enough people together to play unfortunately.

Before one of my hobbies was also playing video games but I stopped because I didn't want to put so much time in it. Right now I am looking for a new skill I can get better in apart from juggling because I also want to do something new. It doesn't get boring, but it's always nice to have some new challenges.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couchsurfing gives us the opportunity to meet people. I have met lots of lovely people and had a very good time travelling so far. CS is a strong resource for getting in touch with the local culture. It also helps because you can arrange a contact beforehand for sensible areas where you are better off not being alone. I also like CS because it gives you a profound understanding of reality. The world is not always as you see it, and the more you travel and hang out with people from another cultural background you learn that your way of doing things is not the only way to handle something. 5+3 is 8, but so does 6+2.

really, Couchsurfing is nice! I never really had bad experiences with CS, worst thing to happen so far is that I'd need to cancel my requests because my flights were cancelled :/

Interests

• board games
• chess
• juggling
• music
• sports
• badminton
• travelling
• football
• english language
• spanish language
• german language
• japanese language
• latin culture
• french language
• travelling and meeting new people

Music, Movies, and Books

Raggaeton. just kidding XD
listen mainly to pop music, rock music, hip hop, classical music metal, and raggaeton. I also like Ballermann Schlager hahaha.

I don't really watch lots of movies, but I like watching videos from Anthony Gatto and other sportsmen.
He is good, he is strong, he'd be my fav athlete of all time! Overall strong physique, technical skill is astonishing. Would give him 12/10, more if I could.

Books change, right now it'll be How to win Friends and Influence People and The Richest Man in Babylon.
Richest Man in Babylon is a cool one, you should give it a try! It's also not as thick as those books which they make you read for uni or school, so it's a good read for sitting around waiting for your 2h Ryanair delay.
just kidding FR we love you ;)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- being smuggeled into a japanese university dorm. Pretending I'd be an American exchange student. Guard didn't get that something was odd.
- Arriving in Dominica Melville Hall without any plan where to go, randomly walking along the street into the forest, ending up sleeping 3 days in the jungle with an indigenous tribe family.
- meeting lots of cool friends and still being in contact up to this day!
- sneaking into Iran without getting stamped and getting to Tabriz in the very last minute before corona shutdown. Then, on the way back, getting denied entry in Georgia and escaping the immigration policies and actual lockdown last minute via the secret escape route Nakhchivan, Baku, Domodedovo and Tegel.
- having a collaboration with the wonderful La Suite Villa in Martinique. You got 2 check this place out *-*
- spending plenty of time with wonderful people! you make my experiences that awesome!
- experiencing major electricity shutdown on the first day when arriving in South America. Having a breakdown with a car and wandering throughout a city in complete darkness, hoping no one in Caracas would get that there is a confused gringo with some $$$ on him wandering around the city in the middle of the night.
- having only 12 hours to get from Nador to Tanger. Bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Extreme rush in shared taxi.
- Arriving in an remote Nicaraguan village in the north of the country. Everyone in Managua said it'd be safe there, turns out it was massive gangland with two famous digits sprayed on every street corner.
- meeting plenty of awesome friends all around the globe
- eating in Fonda Lo Que Hay. This is the best restaurant in the galaxy, maybe in the universe.
- Arriving on the Maldives with barely any money at all, trying to snap some luxurious holiday lifestyle vibes like the 1 % always do it . Ending up sleeping on a fruit ferry.
-Finding out how many people can be stuffed into one bus. And again. And again. Mainly busses in central America, but Japan and the Netherlands had their moments . Once we were literally piled on top of some other people, opening a second layer. Really don't know what was going on that day. This would never be possible in Germany as police would interfere.
-travelling with Luca, telling the other one only while going to gate where we'd go next. Doing this again 6 times, chasing the other one from continent to continent.
-doing this infamous St Maarten fence.
-transiting in Xiamen before it was cool. It was not cool then.
- meeting a friend who just had his card fixed by the car repair man. His story was that he got attacked by police officers in the middle of the night who fired shots at his car as he didn't pay. This was not in Europe.
-plenty of other things...I don't remember it. I am bad at thinking about the past, seems like we'll need to start our own crazy story lol XD

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll teach you my language. I could teach you juggling, but since it's my job there are better things to do when I am abroad. So when I host you, I teach you juggling and my language. When I am a guest, I'll teach you my language only! I probably have some strengths, but I can't think of anything in particular right now. Maybe I could teach you some basic French, English or Spanish.

Things we can share: Food.
What not: Room as you get your own one when I host you lol.

What I Can Share with Hosts

some good days and nice vibes! ~ Let's explore the world together ^_^

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Austria, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Dominica, El Salvador, England, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Maldives, Malta, Martinique, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Martin (French part), Seychelles, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany