i m from Nepal named tulsi prasad acharya,newbaneswor kathmandu.i am a business man .

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

meet awesome people from different countries

Interests

travelling,makenewfrns,banjijump,paragliding and cycling

• culture
• writing
• books
• dining
• cooking
• running
• gardening
• shopping
• technology
• traveling
• billiards
• cycling
• camping
• paragliding
• swimming
• business

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS MUSIC

Yours, Dreamily
Arcs
Hemming
Hemming
I'll Be Me
Glen Campbell
Skills in Pills
Lindemann
Sylva
Snarky Puppy and Metropole Orkest
Ashes & Dust
Warren Haynes featuring Railroad Earth
Bonxie
Stornoway
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
Wild Nights
PINS
Demi
Demi Lovato
Let The Road
Rixton
Pitch Perfect 2

The Girl at the Center of the World

Mechanic

Model Misfit

Pretending to Be Erica

A School for Brides

Outrage

Rebel Mechanics

The Heart of Betrayal

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

when i read at 9 clsss i topper my class then i m amazing

Teach, Learn, Share

when i learn then i tech other people

What I Can Share with Hosts

Whenever people come to my events or read books, they ask me, "How do you manage to get invited to so many people's homes when you travel?"

First, I am super social when I travel. I talk with whomever I'm sitting next to on the bus. I chat with vendors. I banter with people while waiting for a train. I ask for directions even when I'm pretty sure I know where I'm going. The more people you talk to, the more people learn about your journey, the more likely that someone will say, "Hey, if you don't have a place to stay, why don't you stay at my home?"

Second, I meet potential hosts on Couchsurfing.org (see my couchsurfing profile). I adore couchsurfing because it gives me insight into a culture that would be hard to get when you're staying at a hotel or hostel. Such insight was essential for writing my latest book, The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us.

It's important that people don't think of couchsurfing as a free roof. Technically, it is; however, the reality is that a guest should always give back economically to the host. If he doesn't, then he's just a leech/freeloader, which is totally uncool. Therefore, it's important that you learn....

The worst couchsurfing guest is extremely selfish. The best ones are super generous. Here are several ways you can give back economically to your host:

Buy food for you AND your host
Cook for your host and clean up afterwards
Treat them to a movie and entertainment
Fill up their car with gasoline
Bring a useful, practical gift: food is best, but once I brought 20 rolls of toilet paper for my host! They loved it, saying, "Finally a gift I can use!")
Clean their house, bathroom, car and/or yard*
Help them repair their house, garden, run errands, babysit*
*These are ways to give economically without spending money.

If you're unwilling to do things like that, then you probably shouldn't couchsurf. I don't know of any culture in the world that doesn't encourage guests to bring a gift for their host, so follow the worldwide practice.

If you're so cheap that you can't treat your host, then stay home or camp.

A couchsurfing story in Atlanta

Benno hosted me in Atlanta for several days. He's an idiosyncratic polyglot. Here's a real life example. Last month I was couchsurfing in Atlanta for a couple of days. I was staying with a nice host (see pic on the right), who was hosting three random couchsurfers: a Texan, a German, and me. Besides, giving each of us a separate bedroom, he got us into a community swimming pool for free. It was a 20 minute drive. When he filled up the gas tank, nobody offered to contribute to the gas. So when we went shopping for food together, I secretly told the other two guests, "Let's split the food bill between the three of us so that the host doesn't pay anything."

The German was cool with the idea, but the Texan was reluctant because he had already gifted the host two tiny plants and some homemade sweets. He felt he had done his good deed and didn't need to do more. "Besides," he said, "When I host, I'm pretty generous myself."

The food bill was $46. It contained all the ingredients to make pizza plus various other items that the host needed. I put it all on my credit card. The German, who was a 19-year-old student, contributed $20. The 32-year-old Texan gave $6 "because that's what I would pay for a pizza."

The host made pizza for all of us. I was basically the only one who helped the host cook and clean up. The other guests just waited in the dining room to be served.

The Texan would stay for two nights. Is two nights in a house with your own bedroom, warm showers, and wifi connection worth a bit more than two tiny plants and sweets? Like most couchsurfers, the Texan was tight on cash, yet he did have a Macbook Air computer, so he wasn't utterly destitute. This raises the question

Countries I’ve Visited

Belarus, British Indian Ocean Territory, India, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ukraine