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Overview

  • 7 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Danish, English; learning Arabic, French, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • PhD student at Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Stu...
  • BA in Philosophy and Islam & Politics, MA in Middle E...
  • From Copenhagen
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Exploration

ABOUT ME

Easy-going and interested! I really share the intuitions underlying Couchsurfing.com.

PHILOSOPHY

In general, I seek for meaning: what is all this about? I just don't know, but I love to think about it. My personal philosophy, my fundamental outlook, my existential compass - they've changed so much. So I guess I've started to embrace that fluidity. I've come to terms with the fact that I wont find anything like my path, so instead I try to be as true as possible to what I believe in here and now. I've been a ski instructor, I've been a sailor, I've been an academic, then journalist, now academic again, but currently I'm thinking of making a living out what I love: yoga and writing. We'll see. In the meanwhile: cheers!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As a couchsurfer, I'm still kind of rookie - mostly because I havn't had the occasion to surf as much I wanted due to living in tiny rooms and pre-arranged dormitories abroad.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Malmö. Istanbul. Vienna. Dubai.

Interests

My holy trinity is: yoga, novels and travelling. If these are secured, I'm good. The rest is sugarcoating. But other than that, I cherish a prober party with a bunch of talkative people.

  • writing
  • yoga
  • instructor
  • partying
  • traveling
  • skiing
  • journalism

Music, Movies, and Books

Movie: just about everything by Lars Von Trier

Music: Kashmir

Book: A Death in the Family (Knausgård). In Search of TImes Lost.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Petra in Jordan. Carnival in Santiago de Cuba. Yemen.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Denmark, France, Yemen

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