CURRENT MISSION

Live life to its fullest (or at least get a good night's sleep)

ABOUT ME

I love traveling and I love meeting other travelers from all over the world. I'm a happy person looking to know the world, its sights, its people and its languages! Life and the world has been good to me all over and I am happy to pay it forward! :)

PHILOSOPHY

Life is short - experience as much of it as you can, have fun and help others have fun too! I have had a lot of good karma in my life and many kind strangers along the way who've helped. I would be honored to be able to pay it forward.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love meeting and hosting people from around the world. I am very interested in various cultures, customs and languages, as well as the backpacking/tourist experience (especially in my home country of Israel). I am especially interested in learning how CSers view Israel, and helping them get to learn the Israeli culture, history, politics and local issues, as well as explaining our local intricacies.

You get bonus points if you are (a) super-nice, (b) can tell/teach me something about your language or culture. :)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have hosted in my apartment in each of Israel's 3 largest cities (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa), and have surfed in Russia & Costa Rica. Everyone I've met has been super-nice, interesting, and kind. It's an amazing experience to meet your fellow travelers from around the world.

Interests

- Other cultures and people!
- Psychology, Computer Science
- Languages (will be happy to practice/learn Spanish, Russian, or German)
- Politics and Religion (quite secular and liberal, myself, but still interested)
- Backpacking

• culture
• boating
• politics
• traveling
• juggling
• coding
• backpacking
• bungee jumping
• rock climbing
• computer science
• history
• languages
• psychology
• religion
• science
• sign language
• beaches
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

(This is kind of random, why would other CSers care about this? oh well)
Movies:
- Pay it Forward, American Beauty, Little Miss Sunshine, Borat, The Godfather
Music:
Brit-Pop (Oasis), Israeli Rock ("Church of the Mind")

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have hitchhiked through Tierra del Fuego, paraglided over Lima, ice-climbed to 6,000 meters in Bolivia (hardest thing I've ever done), rode on the roof of a jeep driven by buddhist monks up to remote monasteries in the Himalayan Spiti Valley, swam through underwater caves near Semuc Champey, Guatemala, ziplined hundreds of meters above the ground through the canopy forest tree-tops in Costa Rica, drove by car from San Francisco to NYC through 19 states, biked through North-Western Ireland, eventually flipping, crashing, and dislocating my shoulder, and hiked through icy-water chest-deep rivers to the southern-most point of the South-American continent.

During Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, I samba'ed with 50,000 people at the Sambadrome. I attended a Dalai Lama teaching on compassion at Dharamshala, taught Tibetan refugees English, and am part of the Guinness world-record-holding group of 'most people with a monkey-tail beard'. I drove in 60's convertibles in Havana, Cuba, celebrated a makeshift Passover in a village of 3k people in Sweden, and organized a fully traditional (kosher!) one in La Paz, Bolivia. I had altitude-sickness sleeping with pigs near Todos Santos, GT, before climbing Central America's 2nd-highest non-volcanic peak, a week after roasting marshmellows over volacnic lava rocks.

I have slept at the only nudist beach in Uruguay, crawled through the silver mine tunnels, in the "world's worst place to work" in Potosí, and waited for a boat for four days in Paraguay (it never came). I practiced Vipassana, Ashtanga Vinyasa, and got dreadlocks in India. In South Africa I drove by lions mating and elephants bathing at Kruger Park, and watched my kid brother bungee jump off a 216m-high bridge. I have acted as an extra on an episode of "E.R.", and participated in the Israeli evacuation of the Gaza strip in 2005.

I have visited over 30 countries, am fluent in 3 languages (English, Hebrew, Spanish), mediocre at 3 others (German, Russian, literary Arabic) and have studied some French, Hindi, and American Sign Language.

The longest stretch of continuous traveling I have practiced was 9 months, when I was 23, and it has changed my life forever.

Teach, Learn, Share

I would be happy to teach people anything about the languages I speak (Hebrew, English, Spanish are good enough to teach non-speakers), coding, or juggling. :)

Would be happy to learn any new languages, especially practice German or Russian!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, India, Ireland, Italy, Paraguay, Peru, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Israel, United States

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