My name is Patrick and I’m from Ireland but have been living in China for the past 5 years teaching adventure sports and learning the language and learning as many skills as I can in the meantime. I am passionate about everything that I do and I love travelling and sharing my experiences, I have recently finished a camino walk, though I only went from Irun to Santander, I had an amazing time. I am in Barcelona now and hope to meet people who can tell me something about here or share time together exploring the place.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to meet people who are about sharing and hope that I can be as good at sharing what skills I may have.

Interests

Snowboarding ,skating,kung fu, tai chi,cooking,history, reading,movies,electronics, drones and FPV flying.

• exercise
• technology
• movies
• classical music
• electronic music
• rock music
• surfing
• snowboarding
• skateboarding
• tennis
• extreme sports
• engineering
• travel
• mountain biking
• reading books
• exploring
• nerdy stuff
• language learning
• game of thrones
• computer games
• games
• taiji
• talking with people
• fpv
• drone
• douglas adams
• trampolining

Music, Movies, and Books

I am into anything regarding music and can range from old rock to classical music to electric, recently I’ve just been exploring music and leaving YouTube find things for me and I have discovered the following

Andrew apple pie “Jimmi”
Broken bells “No matter what you’re told”
The dead south “In hell I’ll be in good company”
Vance joy “Riptide”
Kongos “Hey I don’t know”
Kongos “Come with me now”

Just to name a few anyway.

Books I love books, horror books “James Patterson” sci-fi or fiction such as Alien or Game Of Thrones, never read harry potter but I read similar things like Eragon and yeah I went through The Hobit and LOTR ;) and I love anything by Douglas Adams.

Movies would be tricky I’m ok with some marvel movies not I prefer movies that make you feel and think and even indie movies like “once and sing street”, there are others like gifted that I like and yeah some action movies are welcome too, but I’m nostalgic and like rewatching old 1980+ movies such as terminator and robotic or other cliche movies.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelled to China to learn kung fu for a few years and learn Chinese so that I could go back to Ireland and become a teacher.

Teach, Learn, Share

I love adventure sports and I skate, snowboard and mountain bike to good levels so I’m always up for teaching something physical, but I also know Chinese and have been to many places so I’m happy to tell stories as share experiences.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I teach fitness, tai chi and self defence, I can cook a variety of foods and I can speak Chinese if you are interested.

Countries I’ve Visited

China, England, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Finland, Ireland, Switzerland