CURRENT MISSION

to meet new people, gain experiences, share thoughts and see as much of the USA as I can in three months!

ABOUT ME

I follow the world closely, but sometimes I just delve in my thoughts and everything slips by...

Getting to know new people has always felt easy for me, I guess I tend to ask a lot about different things (so I've been told) but not in that awkward manner, don't be afraid. All in all, I'm a nice dude with some nice dreams.

PHILOSOPHY

“I am willing to serve my country, but my worship I reserve for Right which is far greater than my country. To worship my country as a god is to bring a curse upon it.”
― Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World

Otherwise, I guess I'm a typical educated young adult with thoughts leaning towards existentialism and liberalism.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

When I get back from my travels I want to pay back the favors and spread the hospitality!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted only friends and friends of friends in the past, so nothing exotic on that side of CouchSurfing.

When travelling I've mostly just stuck to hostels, as my surfing requests have not been answered, sadly. In London I spent one night at a friend who I met while travelling in Poland, so that should count as surfing, right? He wasn't a new acquaintance though, so those are something I'm definitely looking forward to!

Interests

Music, movies, arts, culture, cooking, politics, economics, sports...

I'm a predator when it comes to popular culture, all things new pick up my interest. So that's pretty contradictory when looking at my studies - I've been studying history for three years now. But that's what they say, you can't understand the present without knowing the past. It's good knowing how things ended up this way.

I also play football (soccer) and ice hockey with my friends, and watch sports on TV.

I guess I'm a pretty good cook too, so if you're willing to try some Finnish dishes, I could make you some. Vegetarian dishes are in my repertoire too.

• arts
• culture
• cooking
• vegetarian
• politics
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• watching sports
• music
• surfing
• sports
• soccer
• hockey
• economics
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake), Boards of Canada, Sufjan Stevens, Modest Mouse, Burial, Flying Lotus, Miles Davis, Belle & Sebastian, Animal Collective, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Arthur Russell, Sonic Youth. I'm an active searcher of new music.

Movies: Das Leben der Anderen; Das Weisse Band; There Will Be Blood; Synecdoche, New York; Enter the Void; Mulholland Drive; Seven Samurai; Repulsion; The Raging Bull; Taxi Driver; L'Atalante; Rumble; 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days

Books: Lev Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Frank Miller, Charles Bukowski, Alan Moore

Countries I’ve Visited

Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Iceland, Mexico, Poland, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland