Hi I'm Jared Russell Wood

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To meet interesting people and learn so much more about the places I stay directly from locals.

Interests

My interests are who I am. I love talking about any mutual interests I have with anyone I meet.

• coffee
• gardening
• board games
• reading
• music
• classical music
• surfing
• trail running
• rugby
• astronomy
• biology
• philosophy
• long-term travel
• linguistics
• tea
• countryside
• learning languages
• gym
• learning
• south africa
• family
• meeting new people
• game of thrones
• quora
• computer games
• meeting interesting people
• playing football
• computer programming
• drinking tea
• going to the beach
• playing the piano
• drinking wine
• dogs and cats
• eggs

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
Mumford and sons, of Monsters and Men,Imagine Dragons, Edward Sharpe, Milky Chance,The Kongos, Matthew Mole,Majozi,Empire of the Sun,The Beatles,Shortstraw,The Head and the Heart,Modest Mouse,Matthew and the Atlas,Bon Iver, Iron and Wine, Rodriguez, Parlotones, the Lumineers,Queen,Bob Dylan,Noah and the whale, Band of Horses, Phillip Phillips, Fleet Foxes ...
Movies: Inception, Call of the wild, The Giver, Pirates of the Carribean,Arrival, Everything by Terence Malick,Saving Private Ryan,The Lego movie, Harry Potter (ofcourse)…
Books: Everything by Nietzsche, Plato,Tolstoi, Dostoesvky, Albert Camus and JP Sartre, Harry Potter, Don Quixote,Emily Dickinson, Leaves of Grass, Dante, Shakespeare.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swam in the Indian and Atlantic ocean at the same time!
Saw Donald Trump in New York get into a limo.
Survived for 19 years.
Spent 10 minutes as a baby in a pool underwater(drowning) and survived!
First person in my mom's family to go to university.
My dad met Mandela, (I'm so proud).

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share my experiences and talk until the sun comes up.
I love to teach people about my country and about the Afrikaans language and people.
I love to exercise with other people and encourage them to break their limits in physical endurance.
I can teach people and cook traditional South African food.
I love to teach people about philosophy of they don't know anything about it and have philosophical discussions if they are so inclined to long discourses;).

What I Can Share with Hosts

Umm food, accomodation and talk if anyone decides to ever visit Benoni,South Africa.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Switzerland, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa