Hi, my name is Petr and I am 24 years old and I am from Czech Republic. In 2015, when I had finished my studies, I decided to leave my home and I spent 10 months in London, working in luxury Indian restaurant. After this experience, I had to visit India to get to know more about their culture. That was my second travel experience in summer 2016. After that I have visited some other interesting countries in Europe and East Asia. In my home country, me and my colleague organize summer camps for kids with English lessons, where the teachers are native English speakers from US, UK, Canada, etc. We do around 20 summer camps every year for more than 1200 kids. Besides, we also do the educational seminars for high school and secondary school teachers (further education, lifelong learning), we do around 300 seminars every year. The main benefit of this job is that the only thing I need is my laptop, so I can basically work anywhere in the world and travel around the world, as my colleague is based in Czech Republic, so we complement and support each other. Currently, I have been living in New Zealand since March 2018. I got the working visa for one year. I spent 7 months in Motueka, working in the apple and kiwi orchards. Now, I just want to travel around north and south island and see the lovely nature.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

When I started travelling, I realized that the meeting local people and getting to know their culture and their habits is the best thing on travelling...and this app is basically the best way how to experience local culture.

I haven't had a lot of experience surfing people's couches, as I mostly stay at hostels or backpacker spots, but I would love to try CS.

Interests

Let's talk about that over a beer!

• education
• beer
• hiking
• economics
• solo travel
• street food
• mountain climbing
• sunsets

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Cure, The Smiths, David Bowie
Movies - Marvels, Tarantino, Coen brothers
Books - I prefer listening podcasts about travelling, news, science, economy, politics

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Me and my friend, we established educational agency and we have organised hundreds of summer camps with English lessons for young kids and thousands of courses for school teachers in Czech Republic.
- Lived in London for 10 months
- Lived alone in New Zealand for 12 months

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share my travel experience from the countries I have visited and also my origin country, the Czech Republic

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Fiji, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Jordan, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, New Zealand, United Kingdom