ABOUT ME

We are a couple from USA/Canada who met while living and studying in Switzerland. Joel graduated from a small liberal arts college in Michigan where he studied Art History, and Magda studied French in Canada. We are low maintenance and easy to please, and mostly enjoy hanging out with good people.

PHILOSOPHY

We have a huge barrel of wine, but no cups.
That's fine with us. Every morning
We glow and in the evening we glow again.

They say there's no future for us. They're right.
Which is fine with us.

-- Jalaluddin Rumi

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We hosted many times while we lived in Nice, but we finally got the chance to surf a little and it was a lot of fun. Though our town in Canada was small, we got to show a few people around there too. Now we are living in Michigan and hope to meet more people who are on the road.

Interests

Dancing, trivia night, traveling, music, movies, the arts, the outdoors, camping, skiing, hiking, tennis, soccer, friends, a good book, food and drink (eating and cooking), photography, poetry, perched villages, fermenting kimchi, perfectly poached eggs, and living a simple life.

• arts
• books
• poetry
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• drinking
• trivia
• movies
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• camping
• skiing
• soccer
• tennis
• art history
• history
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Lost in Translation, most things Woody Allen, Magnolia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, Five Easy Pieces, most things Wes Anderson, Man on Wire, High Fidelity.

MUSIC: Animal Collective, Amiina, Arvo Part, Bach, The Beatles, Bon Iver, Brian Eno, Bright Eyes, Burial, Corelli, The Field, Four Tet, Handel, Jens Lekman, Justin Timberlake, Over the Rhine, Mates of State, MIA, RJD2, Rufus Wainwright, Simon and Garfunkel, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, !!!, The Weeknd.

BOOKS: JD Salinger, Potok, Hemingway, Yann Martel, Rilke, Bukowski, Dostoevsky, Rumi, Lao Tzu, Milan Kundera, Hesse, Duncan, Li-Young Lee, Dickens, Kerouac, Murakami, Kim Sowol.

TV SERIES: Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks and Geeks, The Wire, Big Love, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Swam in the ocean surrounded by mountains in front of me on land and mountains behind me in the sea in Rio de Janeiro.

Teach, Learn, Share

Magda loves languages and can teach English OR French. Joel loves food and can teach you how to grow it AND cook it.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good food and conversation.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, France, South Korea, Switzerland, United States

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