Hello!! My name is Joshua, I'm an English teacher from the United kingdom 🇬🇧💂‍♀️ I am moving to East Asia this September and very much hoping to learn something about the languages and cultures before I arrive🇯🇵🇨🇳🇰🇷

Engineering graduate⚙️Cycling🚴Hiking🗻
Travelling✈️Boxing🥊Running🏃Reading📚Chess♟️Art🎨 Theatre🎭Classics🏛️ 🌍🚶🎒

Trying to read a national book of all the countries I have visited:
🇮🇪Ulysses
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Beowulf
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Auld Lang Syne
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿The Mabinogion
🇫🇷Les Misérables
🇩🇰The little mermaid
🇦🇹The World of Yesterday
🇩🇪Nibelungenlied
🇳🇱The Diary of a Young Girl
🇪🇸Don Quixote
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🇯🇵The Tale of Genji
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🇵🇹La Lusiade
🇮🇹Divine Comedy
🇨🇿The Metamorphosis
🇵🇱Heart of Darkness
🇭🇺Kaddish for an Unborn
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🇧🇦The bridge over Drina
🇻🇦The City of God
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🇺🇦Dead Souls
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🇹🇷The Museum of Innocence
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🇸🇮
🇸🇰
🇹🇭Ramakien
🇻🇳The Tale of Kiều
🇨🇳 Romance of the Three Kingdoms
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🇮🇩The rainbow troops
🇰🇷The Story of Hong Gildong

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To observe and participate in the true altruism that is couchsurfing. 🤗

Interests

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

If you know the book then I'm sure we can be friends.

• writing
• poetry
• photography
• fitness
• running
• politics
• reading
• hiking
• boxing
• history
• philosophy
• art
• film
• exploring
• museums
• debating
• hiking in the mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Too many. Far too many. 📖*🎥

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Competed for my country 🥊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Teach, Learn, Share

A wise man acknowledges that he knows nothing. ***

What I Can Share with Hosts

The art of conversation.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Laos, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

England