CURRENT MISSION

I still wanna see a lot of places in the world, but for the moment I'm mostly hosting,

ABOUT ME

FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO READ THE HOST'S PROFILE BEFORE SENDING A REQUEST. (Personally I won't host anyone who hasn't).

Hello, my name is Thomas and I'm 29 years old. I have lived in Stockholm, Sweden in all my life, or rather in Vällingby, a suburb to the city. I dedicate 2008 for traveling. First I went to the summer olympics in Beijing for tree weeks. After that I went on an eleven week long US Roadtrip from east to west. Best year of my life!
When I'm traveling I tend to like to visit high building and ancient buildings.
I guess i like both the city and country side. I love spending time at my family's summer house in the archipelago of Stockholm. It's simply paradise on Earth.
Since the fall of 2011 I'm a student at the University of Stockholm. I will dedicate three years of my life to study "Personnel, Work & Organisation" (Human Resources). I also work part time in a grocery store, so the time I can spend with you might be limited.

PHILOSOPHY

This a hard question. I try to live for the moment, but I don't know how good I really succeed. I also like to plan ahead. I wanna see the best in all people. I like to learn new things about everything and everyone. You could also say that I kind of live for Zlatan Ibrahimovic (famous Swedish soccer player); his games and success.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've been using couchsurfing for five years now. First for surfing during my travels in 2008. But then I started hosting in January 2009. When I'm not traveling, I'll for sure let other people surf my couch

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have surfed on a couch four times. The first time in Beijing and that was a perfect first experience. The second time was 3 nights in Boston at the beginning of my US roadtrip. I will definitely couchsurf again and, of course, let people surf my couch.I started to host travelers in January 2009 and so far I've hosted 66 surfers (48% boys & 52% girls):
1. Danilo from Brazil [2009]
2. Aurelie from Switzerland [2009]
3. Justin from Taiwan [2009]
4. Sylvie-Anne from Canada [2009]
5. Mandy from the U.S. (Kentucky) [2009]
6. Rahul from the U.S. (Ohio) [2009]
7. Alex from the U.S. (Illinois) [2009]
8. Liz from the U.S. (California) [2009]
9. Kordula from Austria [2009]
10. Andrea from Switzerland [2009]
11. Erik from the U.S. (Kentucky) [2009]
12. Ramune from Lithuania [2009]
13. Jeanette from the U.S. (Tennessee) [2009]
14. Dave from the U.S. (Michigan) [2009]
15. Sebastian from Colombia [2009]
16. Hugo from Portugal [2009]
17. Adam from Australia [2009]
18. Blake from the U.S. (Alaska) [2009]
19. Paul from Canada [2009]
20. Guillaume from France [2009]
21. Kristy from Australia [2010]
22. Nicola from New Zealand [2010]
23. Timur from Uzbekistan/Portugal [2010]
24. Jakob from Germany [2010]
25. Ewelina from Poland [2010]
26. Adrien from France [2010]
27. Andi from the U.S. (California) [2010]
28. Liz from the U.S. (Arizona) [2010]
29. Nic from Canada [2010]
30&31. Monika & Jana from Czech Republic [2010]
32. Phil (Haoyang) from China [2010]
33. Chrissy from New Zealand [2010]
34. Jason from Malaysia [2010]
35. Filipe from Brazil [2010]
36. Basak from Turkey [2010]
37. Marina from China [2010]
38. Mehmet from Turkey [2010]
39. Alec from the U.S. (Minnesota) [2010]
40. Edie from the U.S. (Texas) [2010]
41. Valerio from Italy [2010]
42. Eunhee from South Korea [2011]
43. Sara from Spain [2011]
44. Herre from the Netherlands [2011]
45&46. Ying & Ruby from Hong Kong [2011]
47. Yu from Japan [2011]
48. Ilya from Russia [2011]
49. Jason (Xuechen) from China [2011]
50. Cindy from France [2011]
51. Kenji from Japan [2011]
52. Soyoung from South Korea [2011]
53. Yingruo from China [2012]
54. Sara from Sweden/Portugal [2012]
55. Mami from Japan [2012]
56. Damon from Hong Kong [2013]
57. Johnson from Taiwan [2013]
58. Paveen from Kenya [2013]
59. Elaine from China [2013]
60. Valla from Russia/Israel [2013]
61. Raquel from Brazil [2013]
62. Franciszek from Poland [2013]
63. Rob from the U.S. (California) [2013]
64. Tram from the Netherlands [2013]
65&66. Julia from Vietnam & Chris from Wales [2014]
67. Valerio from Italy [2017]

And I've surfed the couches of:
1. Grant (American) in Beijing; with my sister Josefine [2008]
2. Alan in Boston; with my new friends Anton & Linn [2008]
3. Adrien in Paris (or rather at his parents house); with my sister Josefine [2011] and again with my cousin Mikael [2013]
4. Paul (Canadian) in Toronto [2011] and again in Seul, South Korea [2015]
5. Valerio (Italian) in Madison, Wisconsin [2011] and again in Singapore [2015]
6. Sean in Washington D.C. [2013]
7. Ben (and Joe) in Minneapolis [2013]

They are all very nice and interesting people and I'm happy to be able to vouched for all of them! And some has become good friends.

Interests

¤Travelling
¤Writing song lyrics: www.kosackimusic.com
¤Playing badminton
¤Skyscrapers
¤Watching sport
¤Watching movies
¤American TV-series
¤Zlatan Ibrahimovic
¤Monopoly
¤Country music
¤Taylor Swift
¤Internet
¤History
¤Sugar & coffee (addicted)
¤spending time at my family's summer house in the archipelago of Stockholm

• singing
• concerts
• festivals
• coffee
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• music
• country music
• sports
• soccer
• olympics
• tennis
• badminton
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Some of my favorite movies are: EuroTrip, Leon, Ivanhoe, Selena, True Lies, American Pie 1-3, Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3, The Godfather 1-3, The Shawshank Redemption, Y tu mamá también, The Blue Lagoon, 8 Mile, Narnia, A Walk to Remember, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Casualties of War, Braveheart, Troy, Entrapment, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Traffic, Crash, Zorro, Jurrasic Park 1-3, City of God, Flying Daggers, The Bucket List, 3 Idiots, The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (both the Swedish and American version).

Music: Country music (Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, Kellie Pickler, Lady Antebellum, Toby Keith, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Blake Shelton, Billy Currington, Alan Jackson...)and the newest pop music the radio like Kelly Clarkson, Eminem, Nickelback and Miley Cyrus.

Overall I guess prefer American/Hollywood culture.I really don't like Swedish movies. They are mostly pretty bad.

Books: "Tomorrow when the war began"-series by John Marsden.Recenlty I have also come to love to read autobiographies from many, very different, famous people like; Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Shania Twain, Miley Cyrus, Roger Moore and Simon Cowell.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

*Walked 10 km on the Great Wall of China (Jinshaling-Simatai). = The absolutely most amazing thing I done in my life so far!*Having done an 11 week long Roadtrip throughtout the US together with two Swedish strangers that I found on the Internet and only met once before the big trip. = The craziest thing I've ever done in my life.Some other amazing things:*Being in Beijing during the Olympic Games 2008.*To see Usain Bolt beat the 200m world record live at the Birdnest (beaten again in the World Championships 2009).*To see Jamaica beat the world record in the 4x100m relay (beaten again in the World Championships 2011).*To see Jelena Isinbajeva beat her own world record in women's pole vault (beaten again in the the World Championships 2009).*To see the World record in women's 3000 m steeplechase (Current).*Slept one night on the 71th floor of the highest hotel in the world, Grand Hyatt Shanghai (August 2008).*Snokeling the coral reef in Key West.*Seen Barack Obama & Bill Clinton at an early vote-rally in Kissimmee. Standing less than 50 feet/15 meters from them.*Big Bend National Park, Texas!*Grand Canyon!*The Niagara Falls!*I've been to 29 U.S. states.*Grand Ole Opry-show at Rymans, Nashville (country music).*Been in the audience of both Jay Leno & Conan O'Brien.*Been in the audience for the recording of an episode of the sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine" starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Wanda Sykes.*Watched the amazing views from; Burj Khalifa (Dubai), CN Tower (Toronto), Jin Mao Tower (Shanghai), Willis/Sears Towerx2 & John Hancock Center (Chicago), Empire State Buildingx2 (New York), the Effiel Tower (Paris) and Washington Monument (Washington D.C.).*Been riding 2 of the 3 fastest roller coasters in the world; "Formula Rossa"(1) at Ferrari World, Dubai & "Top Thrill Dragster"(3) at Cedar Point, Ohio, USA.*Walked inside the Great Pyramide of Giza, Egypt.*Been to two Alan Jackson conserts in Sweden (a big American country music star).*Been standing in the front row twice at Toby Keith concerts in Stockholm.*Been sitting in the front row of a Kevin Costner & Modern West concert in Stockholm.*Been to Taylor Swift's first big concert in Europe, at Wembley Arena in London.*Been standing close to the stage at an amazing Taylor Swift concert in Paris.*Been standing close to the stage at a crazy good Brad Paisley (with Darius Rucker) concert in Stockholm.*Been to tennis matches including some of the world's best players of all time; Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal & John McEnroe.*Where at the national stadium when Sweden unexpectedly beat Neatherlands and qualified for the Euro 2012 (football/soccer).*Visited the CMA Festival in Nashville 2010 ans 2011 (got to see all the big country music stars sing).*Visited "Islands of Adventure" (Universial Resort), Orlando, on the OPENING DAY of the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" (June 18, 2010).*Visited Petra, Jordan.*Visited Dubai Mall (3rd biggest in the world).*Visited Angkor Wat.*Halong Bay!*Phong Nha-Ke Bang national park!

Teach, Learn, Share

I could show you around in Stockholm and my little town Vällingby. Tell you about the history and the places to go. I could introduce you to the greatest religion of them all: "Zlatanism" (the worship of the Swedish soccer/football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic).

Two of my favourite things that I use to recommend people to see in Stockholm would be the Vasa museum and the City Hall (especially the tower during the summer months).

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, Scotland, Singapore, South Korea, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden

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