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Rotterdam, South Holland, The Netherlands
@SMARTERA
Member since 2009
CURRENT MISSION Find a way to move to Scandinavia permanently ;) ABOUT ME To sum it up; I am a very curious person who loves to have fun, experiment with nature photography, see the world and observe people! Originally from Egypt, now living in the flat lands of Netherlands My biggest passion is mountain hiking & trekking, but I just got a skiing accident and tore my knee , so no hiking for 12 months!! (or may be we can start a movement of crutch hiking :P) I am in deep love with Scandinavia, especially Norway. I can't get enough from that place! Create your own visitor map PHILOSOPHY Never look back. Never regret a decision you made! Everything is doable :)
Interested in Art
Fluent in Arabic
Learning Dutch
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Did two couch surfing trips; Scandinavia & Eastern Europe. Surfed at and met a lot of super nice people. It was pretty amazing. Interesting people from all poles of thought :) Now, I am addicted :D
Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: Favorite is The Green Mile. I also adore Matrix , Lord of the Rings, The Illusionist, Beautiful Mind and Devil's advocate Books: Non-fiction books mainly (specially the ones of Malcolm Gladwell & anything Harvard).My favorite books are fictional though (Alchemist and Carrie). For music, mmm, mainly dubstep, rock, techno, tekno, trance, hardstyle, drum'n'bass, etc... ; also slower chill music. It depends on the mood!!
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Hiked in the Norwegian fjords. Quite a mind-freeing experience! Learning to ski in Alaska. Witnessed a flaming police chase in Moscow. Clubbing in Reykjavik (the whole town become a big club after 1 AM!!!) Wrote a few new forecasting algorithms (boring, I know :P)
Teach, Learn, Share
I can teach you Arabic, and how to design conjoint analysis studies or complexity theory, if you want to...
My Interests
Going out with friends, mountain hiking, thaiboxing, programming, partying, music, art, photography( http://smartera.smugmug.com)
