We are a Finnish couple studying in Tohoku and Kyushu universities in Japan. We're planning to travel around the country to get to know people and places. Our hope is to meet and hang out with locals or local expats. As we love cooking it would be nice to get together to share a dinner and discuss life, world or anything!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

We are looking to get to know local people and live a little moment normal life there. We don't like resorts and we feel like the best part of traveling is to meet people living there and understand better different ways of life. That is very enriching and so we hope to meet people through couchsurfing just living their lives, getting to visit for a little while and share stories.

Interests

We are very curious people so writing all our interests here would take a long time :D But we both love to sing Karaoke, listen amazing music while cooking tasty vegetarian food. Dancing is integral part of our lives as well as art, photography, music and videos. Mónica is interested in documentary film and Miika is a producer and modular syntheziser musician. We also really love to take long walks in nature and draw trees and straws. If you have crazy ideas of an activity we would be very happy to hear as we are very active people and love to try out new things.

• arts
• books
• photography
• cooking
• running
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• hiking
• economics
• nature
• vegetarian food
• videography
• diving
• flea markets
• japanese culture
• tea ceremony
• conversing

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Arrival, The Cloud Atlas, Pulp Fiction, One flew over the Cuckoos nest, Inception, The Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Alice in Wonderland, Nausica, Spirited Away

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I made friends with a fish while diving :D

Teach, Learn, Share

Mónica: We can have a drawing night together as I am very enthusiastic drawer and always love to find new ways to practice drawing. I have many fun exercises on my sleeve so you can be even a total beginner to enjoy these exercises!:)

What I Can Share with Hosts

We bring with us good vibes and creativity. Stories are what we live for so we are always happy to share and hear more stories. If you'd like to learn about drawing, photography or modular music, we'd be happy to teach 🌸

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Kenya, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Costa Rica, England, Finland, Japan