CURRENT MISSION

Barefootedness rocks, getting to know interesting people even more.

ABOUT ME

Easy-going guy from northern Europe, like to spend time in social environments, talkative, almost gotten over my childhood shyness ;) Mental and physical challenges are welcome, and conversely I enjoy reading a lot and occasionally drawing as well.

I'll add more stuff, the thing is that me and my friend, we are leaving to USA for 2 months roadtrip in 4 days [that is 23rd of May, '09], and I have to start looking for possible places to couchsurf :)

Addendum: we've now been on our way for almost a month, and CS friggin rocks. We've loved all the places, Chicago, Toronto, Buffalo, Boston, NYC, Miami, now in Key West! Coming up: Orlando, New Orleans, Austin, and so forth! Await CS requests from me :)

Addendum 2: 7 or so weeks behind, after Austin we visited Dallas, Lubbock, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, San Diego, and now in Santa Monica. Heading up to San Francisco, our last stop before Finland :(

PHILOSOPHY

Absolutes are not realistic.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hopefully by traveling a lot, and hosting people after I again get an apartment after summer ;)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We have this Europe-spanning university-student organization called "AEGEE", where every country's antenna organization (bout 50 of them) holds a week or two of "Summer University" (SU). SU is basically a gathering of like-minded individuals having a blast learning about other cultures, each other and, occasionally, night life .) Participants are usually accommodated at people's homes, and personally I've been both a participant and an organizer.

I tell this so that you can see that even though I'm new to this site, I am not new to the concept of CouchSurfing.

Interests

Many.

• sauna
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• hiking
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: anything, except for hard metal.
Movies: gaah, plenty.
Books: bukowski, dick, card, hemingway, waltari, eiji yoshikawa, moorcock, banks, etc.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Viewpoints differ. Hiking for a week through a cold barren wasteland of northern Finland/Norway without seeing another soul is cool for someone ( i like ), while felling trees before heating up the sauna and mentally preparing for swimming in a cold ocean afterwards might be amazing to someone ( i like ), and again drinking a bucket of rhum and coke with straws and with strangers in a weird bungalove in the stiffling heat of thailand might do it for someone ( i like ), or talking with someone new during the middle of a night riding an old decrepit train through the mostly untouched nature of Croatia, windows open to let the air soothe you, might be something good too ( i like ). Fact is, it often is amazing or cool depending on the people, not the place.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Finland, France

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