CURRENT MISSION

to live the dream in Buenos Aires

ABOUT ME

My name is Per. I'm 22 years old, and have grown up in Sweden with a swedish mom and japanese dad. My main interests are:

writing - mainly short stories
music - playing, writing, listening
books - everything
society - studying it, trying to make it better

Since finishing college I've taken a few jobs (metal factory, retirement home, ukukele teacher) to earn money for traveling. The traveling took me too amongt others South America and Europe.

The last one and a half year I've been studying sociology in Sweden. My main interest has been the study of racism and ethnicity in modern Europe, especially Sweden.

This spring I'll be staying in Buenos Aires. I'm doing an online course in creative writing from Sweden. Writing has always been really important to me. My plan is to merge my two main interests - writing and society - and in a year try my luck with journalism. But right now I'll try my best to really enjoy Buenos Aires while writing short stories!

PHILOSOPHY

Some things are in our control and others are not.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Haven't tried it yet, looking forward to though!

Interests

Music, society, books, meeting new people and new places.

• writing
• books
• traveling
• music
• teaching
• journalism
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Everything by Wes Anderson. Aki Kaurismäki. Most by Akira Kurosawa. Harold and Maude. The graduate. Kikujiro's summer. Little miss sunshine. Charlie Chaplin. Kubrik. Amores perros. Y tu mama tambien. Star Wars trilogy.

Music: Lots of 60's pop (the Zombies, the Kinks, Mamas and the Papas, the Beatles, the Beach Boys). Os mutantes, Lalo Schifrin, Beethoven, Oscar Aleman.

Books: Douglas Coupland, Truman Capote, Haruki Murakami, Michel Faber (best short story writer), Richard Yates, Tove Jansson, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Gabriel García Marquez, Junot Diaz.

Countries I’ve Visited

Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

Sweden