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Overview

  • 11 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Finnish, Italian; learning Chinese, German, Persian (Farsi), Spanish
  • 33, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Learning & development consultant
  • University of Helsinki, Asian studies
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Curious, destructed, unconventional, polyglot, non-judgmental, passionate, looking for development, active, goal minded, energetic, resilient, logical, selfless, willing to help, and kind – or at least, I try to be ;)

'To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.'

Oscar Wilde

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meeting friends and practicing languages

Interests

I spend all my free time dancing: lindy hop, blues, hip hop, house, popping, tapping, locking, tango, bachata, Kizomba, salsa

  • dancing
  • tango
  • dining
  • cooking
  • cheese
  • running
  • clubbing
  • chess
  • painting
  • drawing
  • hinduism
  • sports
  • soccer
  • computer science
  • entrepreneurship
  • languages
  • science
  • language exchange
  • learning languages
  • vegetarian cooking
  • swing dance

Music, Movies, and Books

Films, at least: Pulp Fiction, La meglio gioventù, La finestra di fronte, Goodbye Lenin, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, Black Swan, Das Leben der Anderen.

Music, at least: Fabrizio De André, Astor Piazzolla, Chopin, Nujabes, Nina Simone, Buena Vista Social Club, Mumford&Sons, Asef Avidan.

Books, at least: Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere's Fan, Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince.

Painters, at least: Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've been swimming in a frozen lake a couple of times in Finland.

I've spent the whole night in Tienanmen square in Beijing, to see the flag-rising on October 1 at 6 am.

I've spent 4 months in a Hindu monastery teaching English for free to children in one of the poorest parts of India.

Teach, Learn, Share

Dance, sports and languages

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook Italian food :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

China, Finland, India, Iran, Italy

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