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Overview

  • 29 references 22 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in Chinese, English, Persian (Farsi); learning French, German, Spanish, Yue (Cantonese)
  • 41, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Doctor - fix broken people
  • University
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To meet every person in the world

ABOUT ME

I'm a doctor but in my spare time I travel around the world. Training to become an anaesthetist and eventually I plan to work in third world countries and do a lot of volunteer work - but first I have to finish my training! In the mean time I am trying to learn every language and trying not to take myself too seriously!

PHILOSOPHY

Nothing is more important than people spending time together to broaden their minds, promote harmony, peace and fellowship, and dedicating themselves to serving humanity in the most effective way possible. If we all dedicated our lives to improving ourselves and also the lives of others, the world undergo an incredible transformation overnight.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Now that I have a house, I am happy to host some couch surfers whenever we can. We have a spare room with two single bed and we can can accomodate 2 couch surfers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I had an amazing time in small German towns when I first began couch surfing. Couchsurfers are cool and it brings warmth to my heart that people are so generous. I've also couch-surfed in South America - amazing, amazing people and friends. More recently I couch surfed with Jessi in San Francisco. Have hosted a few lovely people so far in Australia. Since then we moved to a beautiful apartment in Brisbane and we are ready to host.

Interests

Going to the beach, reading, travel, intensive care, anaesthetics, bike riding, running, going to the gym, cooking, learning languages, watching movies, listening to music, talking, dancing, swimming, walking, hiking, backpacking, couch surfing!

  • dancing
  • cooking
  • running
  • walking
  • movies
  • reading
  • traveling
  • volunteer work
  • music
  • cycling
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • surfing
  • swimming
  • languages
  • medicine
  • volunteering
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite movies: Jurassic park, Terminator 2 (director's cut), Amelie
Favourite music: The Beatles, Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens
Favourite books: The English Patient, The Great Gatsby

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Travelled to: Argentina, Chile, Brasil, U.S.A. (Oregon and Hawaii), England, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Turkey, Israel, Iran, Greece, U.A.E., Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, Fiji :) There will be more.

To be completely honest, travel is about the most amazing and satisfying thing I have ever done.

Teach, Learn, Share

Well, I can teach you my philosophy about how to be happy all the time (it's pretty easy!) and I guess I could teach you some English, Persian or Chinese. I could also probably teach you first aid!

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