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Overview

  • 14 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Czech, English, French, German
  • 47, Other
  • Member since 2009
  • Martina - Teacher and Martin - Radio journalist
  • University of Southern Bohemia
  • From Ceske Budejovice (Budweis)
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Together we would like to write a radio play for BBC

ABOUT ME

I guess my tolerance and flexibility/ opportunism would be mentioned by most my friends. (The latter I hope only by myself.) I have lots of energy and very varied interests. I am a jack of all trades and master of none. There is a change in our lives in that we no longer live together, but continue to share this profile and our surfers (sometimes). We live in Ceske Budejovice and have hosted quite a lot of people from all over the planet. I am addicted to my window to the world from my place of work, an international school and hosting couchsurfers.

PHILOSOPHY

I can help you now and some other time maybe I need somebody´s help in return.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Martin has been couchsurfing in Vienna in 2009, in 2011 we both surfed in London for a couple of days. Otherwise we have hosted, the last three visitors were from Hong Kong, where I am on holiday at the moment, also meeting up with the people we met at home.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

3 nights in Vienna. Two nights in London. Great experience.

Interests

Martina....I like literature while I am skating and going to see plays while I am dancing, taking photos while I am eating with friends or family,learning languages while I am swimming and generally being quite an intelligent person as you can gather from the above.

  • books
  • literature
  • dancing
  • beer
  • partying
  • news
  • music
  • swimming
  • history
  • languages
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Different genres. A lot of different stuf.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Martin....The Alps. Especially Dolomites in the Norht of Italy. When I saw a ladder over a deep gash I couldn´t imagine the force which could make me to climb it. It was only 20 meters long. Under my feet only rocks. A single wrong movement could have killed me. It was high up in the mountains (2500 meters over the sea level). And after I had managed to climb this ladder I learned, that I can trust myself more than ever (Martin) I have no problem with heights but I also wasn´t there.
(Martina) The icesurface of a frozen river and the noise the ice makes. Amazing nature underwater, mainly on television. Skies everywhere and beautiful.Snowstorms, our little old house lit up coming round a corner...

Teach, Learn, Share

We are looking forward to see, how it works. What can we teach or tell you?
9 most useful swear-words in czech (only 10 milions people all over the world would share it with you)
7 wonders of Southern Bohemia
5 brands of the best czech beer (Martin likes the taste of beer, but we both hate purely alcolic parties) And only some people know, the the real Budweiser comes from our hometown and tastes great.
3 most interesting towns in Czech republic - with some historical background of czech history and some important points of European history on general.
1 story of my life

What do We want to learn about your region?
The history of the place.
The taste of local beer.
How do people dress like.
How do people live their every day lives.
Local radio and News paper.
Interesting books.
Local music.
Your story of life.

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