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Overview

  • 9 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Indonesian; learning Arabic (Morocco), Serbian
  • 52, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Teacher
  • university, BA, MA (Psychology).
  • From Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Living in Surabaya, Indonesia.

ABOUT ME

Hi there. I was born a long way away on the planet of Pluto, many years ago. Yes it is a planet, though nothing of the likes of earth. Being from so far away amongst the outer reaches of nowhere, by the time I got to earth I felt like I was in heaven. I mean there's no ice cream on Pluto and you can't surf. Also the mountains have no trees. I´m a fairly easy going guy... I've been through a whole solar system just to get here.

Seriously though, I enjoy meeting new people, swapping stories and the like. I don't really like pop music, sorry, though I do have a reasonable music collection. I´ve traveled my own country fairly extensively.

Lastly, if I'm not so sure what I want to say, I just like to muck around and pretend I'm writing a science fiction or fantasy novel though I'm the main character (it may in fact be a more interesting book without me in it though).

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Conversation, cooking for hosts, enlargening the network of hosts and travelers. Swapping music, movies, stories. Hopefully some occasional couch surfing and the chance to host people at some point :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm just a beginner, have mercy on me.

Interests

Bushwalking
Reading
Writing
Music
Coffee
New Languages
photography
space travel (science fiction - magic realism)

  • animals
  • birds
  • writing
  • books
  • photography
  • cooking
  • coffee
  • walking
  • gardening
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • magic
  • music
  • surfing
  • languages
  • science
  • lakes
  • rivers
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Difficult question. One of each for the moment will have to do.

Movie - Wings of desire
Music - Anouar Brahem
Book - A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Walking 7 weeks through the Himalayas in Zanskar / Ladakh.

Living and working for years in the middle of nowhere; some small Aboriginal communities west of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia.

Crossing the road in downtown Teheran and survived.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can strike a match in any wind...

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Indonesia, Montenegro

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