CURRENT MISSION

See the atmosphere in Scotland on 300th anniversary of the Act of Union, Choose Leith, Choose Edinburgh, Choose Green and White, Choose Hibs, Choose the capital, Choose East Midlands, Choose Nottingham, Choose Leicester, Chosse Walk About Aussie pub"

ABOUT ME

Historically minded person, eager to get acquainted with foreign countries and people, knowledgeable with an interest in foreign languages and all of the social sciences. I have ongoing commitment to learning and education all like to hear peoples' views on political and societal issues etc. Particularly happy to learn about everything interlinked with Scotland and Republic of Ireland and love kiwi and aussie people as well

PHILOSOPHY

Put 'em under pressure!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

No particular orientation

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

No formal couchsurfing experience but I have travelled pretty much and was accommodated informally, never through couchsurfing though

Interests

Classical Social Theory, Knowledge Economy, Anthropology, Literacy and Numeracy Studies, Educational Sciences, Contemporary Sociological Theory, History of Europe after the French Revolution, History of the Wars of the Roses, East Midlands History, Spanish, German, English, Anthropology

• education
• beer
• pub crawls
• swimming
• anthropology
• teaching
• history
• languages
• social science
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Durkheim's Division of Labour in Society, Knowledge for Development, Weber's Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, Mauss' Sociology and Anthropology, Hobsbawm's The Age of Extremes, Painter History of Medieval Period, Beck's Risk Society, Mills' Sociologiacl Imagination, Walter Scott's Waverley, DH Lawrence etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Monuments commemorating Wars of the Roses in Leicester,
beer in a Guinness brewery in Dublin, beers in Johnny Foxe's in Dublin, swimming in the Irish Sea, Shelbourne vs Drogheda at Tolka, Nottingahm Forest against Hartlepool in the City Ground etc

Teach, Learn, Share

All areas of Sociology and History (particularly history from 1789)
Educational Sciences
Knowledge Economy
Anthropology
English, Spanish, German

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Serbia, United Kingdom