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Overview

  • 5 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning Welsh
  • 56, Male
  • Member since 2013
  • TESOL teacher
  • Badly at first, better later, finally at degree level at ...
  • From Builth Wells
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Doing an MA Ed with the OU. Very enjoyable. Very thought provoking. Want to move to the Czech R to live in the future.

ABOUT ME

Eearly success professionally, decided to move on and do something else. Chose family over career and married a nice lady. Had kids together, got divorced. Meanwhile still studying. Pass degree with a 2.1 at age 40. Couple of years later and some hard times, going back to university to do a post-graduate degree.

PHILOSOPHY

love - a passionate affirmation of an 'object;...an active striving and inner relatedness, the aim of which is the happiness, growth, and freedom of its object.
Erich Fromm

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have rented out my spare rooms to young people from the Czech Republic who are studying in Switzerland till now. Very nice experience. Would like to offer the living room bed-sofa to anyone who wants to come.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None

Interests

Music, theatre, rugby, cooking, films, cultural studies among other things.

  • dining
  • cooking
  • movies
  • magic
  • music
  • rugby
  • cultural studies

Music, Movies, and Books

Anythign and everything

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Been homeless.

Teach, Learn, Share

Conscienzitazion. Critical consciousness.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Love, food, dialogue, stories, laughter and magic.

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