Hey ho!
I'm a just a little uncrafty jack,
life likes to give me the occasional smack
so looking around for that one day
That'll finally have something to say

From branch I wander, onto the next
trying to capture life in a text
written the pages of countless books
fallen in love, not just for the looks

on paths I travel - winding and queer
from peaceful harbors where skies are all clear
through unknown lands where mind turns to steel
unto that place where dies all the fear

far is this place - of my final rest
further yet still - my home - my nest

Where am I going?
I don't quite know
down to the river where the ravers grow?
onto the net where the scripters code
anywhere anywhere I don't know...

If I were a bird, in the clouds up high
I would look up and see you in the sky
up over there, in your sea of green
flying in circles - as long as a dream

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Looking to meet and help along lovely, interesting people from all corners of the globe and all walks of life.

Currently trying to start a New Life - in Germany.

Surfed many a couch and given mine too so I'm no stranger to being new - and being there for someone who's new.

I've had a BIG hand when I moved to Italy and then UK and believe I should return the favor!

Always looking for new friends! :)

Interests

"The sign of Sentience is the abiliity to recognize the value of knowledge" - the universe is filled with possible avenues of inquest and I have just ONE life to learn it all in! That's just not fair... The knowledge of humanity is at my disposal and there never seems to be enough time to get to it all and the list just keeps getting longer! Oh and woe - all the things that can only be learned by doing! :O

How can one choose from it all?

And then there's the parties :) oh dear the parties. Heaven help the Heathen that comes to London and won't experience the bewildering space of a squat party - which, naturally brings along it's own brand of experience...

• poetry
• diy
• video games
• history
• languages
• philosophy
• psychology
• dance
• science fiction
• techno
• boardgames
• pop culture
• dnb
• fantasy books

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything with a soul really - and it's not as broad as it sounds! Edith Piaf next to Prodigy - Brian Eno next to D.A.V.E. the Drummer - Bob Marley next Die Antwoord -> the spectrum of music is there to be savored : in a car, on the dancefloor, in the kitchen, by the homework... why should one limit himself to one?

As for movies? Documentaries!! One's about space! ...or comedies. British ones! Or films with Humphrey Bogart - that guy was so bad he was good.

I've read the entire A Song of Ice and Fire (5 books so far, hurry up you fat "(&%! ) - one could argue this was a poor choice since if I would read that many pages of say, philosophy books, I could have read the entire works of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Camus, Kant and Bacon but f%"@ it man, it was worth being able to spoil Game of Thrones for my sister... so yeah, BIG about Fantasy

If that's no good, Sci-fi always helps! But where would we be without obscure writings of my own? Ask me and I'll just might let you read some.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Wrote a novel, didn't get it published (not that amazing then)
Went to Italy with a backpack and 1000 words in Italian for a year (survived)
Cured an ageing alcoholic of his addiction (...to alcohol)
Repaired and entire house after 2 generations of negligence
Got hired as a chef in a michelin starred restaurant -> quit

But to name one thing?

When I lived in Canada, I took my bike on the Metro to go downtown from where I lived (Saint- Laurent) I had a blast with a bunch of buddies and guys from work.
After it died down I took myself home with a detour round an abandoned building I wanted to visit (and visit I did)
However, the metro shut down.
Oh well...won't wait around till the cows come home! So I got on my bike and started pedalling home. Too bad the people who made Montréal didn't think people could bike that far. So they built a highway - no bikes allowed.

Vik didn't have a map nor a smartphone, sho he cycled along the highway, through winding streets and dirtroads, never getting any closer to where he (thought) he should be going. The steering rod fell off! He tried tightening it with this fingers, but ultimately, he steered with nothing. The outlook was grim. The chances sleek...
when suddenly - there shined the workmen crews...almoust at the outskirts of the city, a new Highway was being built! He seized his chance and made a run for it across the still hot asphalt. There he found himself in a strange place - railway tracks but no trains - trees and yet no birds...

He wandered around in that strange place until a private security officer came upon him
"Alors? D'oú es tu?" (Where are you from then?)
"Slovaquie!" (Slovakia! :)
"Ah non! Comment es-tu arrivé là?!? (No! I mean, how did you get here?!)

Turns out, I was not that far off - the nice man showed me my direction, and - after a tunnel, a golf course, a construction site and endless suburbia - I was where I started....home

6 hours - 87 kilometres - no map - no steering rod...And a sunrise I won't easily forget...

To top it off, my Uncle, having a morning coffee when I stumbled inside, asked me if I was up all night having sex somewhere?
"...Sure....you can call it that"
"Well, sit down! Tell me all about it! "
"Can't ... my ass is still too sore" (old one, but genuine!!)

Teach, Learn, Share

Can teach: JavaScript, Italian, English, Meditation, how to roll a fattie, how to cook Hollandaise Sauce, how to cook a basket egg, how to fix leaky plumbing, how to change an electric socket/plug, how to fix a cracked pc/laptop screen, dance to Drum N Bass like a pro, bake a Millionaire Shortbread

Ich möchte Deutsch lernen!

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can tell REALLY bad jokes : like - why was it hard for Mozart to find his teacher? Cos he was Haydn. No really, they are THIS bad.

I can bake cakes that make you remember your grandma and cook meals that make your momma run red with shame.

I have quantums of useless facts you will never ever need to use, unless on a quiz show. (All the coffee in South America may be traced to a single tree, given by the Dutch to the French king Luis XV - the Dutch themselves stole a sapling that was the mother of that one tree from Mocha (a city in the Arabian peninsula) - then the only place you could get coffee from.)

I can share a load of stories I managed to collect along my way to the point I've met you, my dear host.

I can help with any house fixing related problem - man, it's always handy to have a handy man! I'm also fairly good with troubleshooting broken electronics (won't be carrying my tools around tho)

I'm very good at translating and can help with studying (many a trick I have ;)

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, United Kingdom