I don't want to be an ant... You know?

"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body."
- Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass" preface

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have hosted in Ontario (Canada), Adelaide (Australia), and Kyiv and Kharkiv (Ukraine).

I backpacked throughout Canada, Europe, India, and North Africa, where I got to meet all sorts of cool people through this.

Interests

Rooftops, doodles, roadbiking, spicy vegetarian food, physics, live music, sailing, shinny hockey, roadtrips, Ladas, music, the Montreal Canadiens, Buckminster Fuller, "cradle to cradle"

• animals
• arts
• books
• singing
• dining
• beer
• vegetarian
• pub crawls
• reading
• drawing
• music
• live music
• drums
• backpacking
• sailing
• hockey
• mathematics
• neuroscience
• physics
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Electric Koolaid Acid Test, On the Road, Gravity's Rainbow, La Nausée, Shantaram, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Master and Margarita, The Glass Bead Game, the Phantom Tollbooth, le Petit Prince, and all the adventures of Tintin which probably inspired my wanderlust from childhood (this is actually one of the ways I learn foreign languages, as I know the dialogue by heart)
Writers: Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S Thompson, Charles Bukowski, Chuck Klosterman, Bob Dylan, Hermann Hesse, JP Sartre, Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche, HERGé.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love studying languages and linguistics. Would love to pick up and share whatever I can.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Malaysia, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Ukraine

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