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Overview
About Me
CURRENT MISSION
Living in Prague for the summer!
ABOUT ME
I'm an adventurous and outgoing guy who grew up in Palo Alto, California, which is about a half hour south of San Francisco. I did Semester at Sea in 2010 and sailed around the world as a part of study-abroad program. I've been hooked on traveling ever since. I spent the 2011-2012 year teaching English at a public elementary school in Busan, South Korea, and then spent 4 months backpacking through SE Asia. After a year at home, I spent most of 2014 living in Melbourne, Australia and then took a couple months to travel around Oz and New Zealand.
In the beginning of 2015 I moved to Prague. For a while I worked as a tour guide for a project I started in partnership with UNICEF (Facebook.com/1EuroWalkingTourForUNICEF). I still give tours on occasion, but now I work full time with a tech startup (meetangee.com).
After a 3 month backpacking trip through Europe (November 2016 - February 2017) and some time at home to see family, I'm back in Prague for the summer to sync up with the team here and shoot new commercials!
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Host and surf :)
Interests
I love to laugh, so I love to joke around and to watch and write comedy. Currently writing a screenplay and recording a podcast about conspiracy theories.
I also really like sports -- my main sport is ice hockey but I'll play a pick-up game of just about anything. If the scenery is nice I enjoy hiking/trekking.
Musically I'm not very gifted, but I've been playing piano for a little over a year and I enjoy it very much despite being entirely mediocre.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
* Playing soccer in with kids in a small township in Tema, Ghana.
* Walking on the Great Wall of China entirely unable to comprehend how it was constructed in 200 BC.
* Riding and bathing elephants in a small sanctuary outside Luang Prabang, Laos.
* Witnessing 8-year-old Korean children somehow staying sane when their school day ends at 9pm and they still have to eat dinner and do homework.
* Swam with wild dolphins in Kaikoura, New Zealand.
* Raised over €1,000 for UNICEF through my tour guiding project in Prague
Teach, Learn, Share
I like all three
What I Can Share with Hosts
Funny stories, good company, and drinks!
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
Australia, Czech Republic, South Korea, United States