"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain

I'm a 31-year old teacher (special education ad primary school) from Finland, the land of Santa Claus, northern lights and saunas. Did you know what in Finland (where the population is 5,6 million) there are around two million saunas? :D That's totally crazy, but saunas are something special here!

I love traveling, meeting new people and having deep conversations! I've played a lot of piano, made some electronic music and I'm also writing a blog:
https://soundcloud.com/ollilukkari
https://gravitygoals.wordpress.com/

Other hobbies I have are reading (favorite authors at the moment: Brené Brown, Paulo Coelho, Taylor Stevens...), writing poems and rap-lyrics, performing (freestyle-)rap, watching movies and doing parkour/boxing/lifting weights and learning languages (currently learning more Spanish, would love to dabble with Brazilian Portuguese and Japanese in the future)... Also trying to meditate every now and then with varying levels of success!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting new people, getting experiences!

Interests

Playing piano, making rap music and composing film music & electronic music

Sports (parkour, bodyweight skills)

Friends (always meeting new friends somewhere be it in a bus or a train or parties or on the street talking at random people),

Reading (I read dozens of book a year)

Movies (Ghibli movies, psychological thrillers, epic dramas, animation & short films)

Volunteering (I've volunteered on youth camps, lived for three weeks in Siberia, voluntereed in movie and music festivals)

• writing
• books
• music festivals
• festivals
• beer
• coffee
• walking
• partying
• technology
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• electronic music
• piano
• sailing
• sports
• animation
• business
• entrepreneurship
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Paulo Coelho, Herman Hesse, Thomas Harris (Hannibal Lecter), Great Teacher Onizuka

Movies: V for Vendetta, Cloud Atlas, Watchmen, Saw films, Grave of the Fireflies, Miayzaki's movies, Waltz With Bashir, Titanic...

Music: post rock, Enigma, j-rock...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking 160-180km in five days with a friend of mine.
Moved to Uruguay to work as an intern in Spanish-speaking school with only the basic knowledge of the language

Teach, Learn, Share

Interesting, spontanius, fun people. People who are revolutionaries, not going with the flow, being truly themselves.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Amazing stories and nice conversations
Tips on music and blogging
Cup of coffee/beer/wine

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, Germany, Russian Federation, Spain, Taiwan, Uruguay

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