CURRENT MISSION

To learn Portuguese, travel the world, meet new people, and to have as much fun as possible throughout.

ABOUT ME

Writing about myself only shows half of the picture, so I might as well paint it nice. :) So, my name's Michael, I'm from Slovakia, I lived 4 years in Thailand when I was a kid, I spent a year as an Erasmus in Coimbra, Portugal (where I returned later for one more semester cause I loved it) and I lived in San Diego for a year (worked in an Indian restaurant in downtown).

About my personality, I'm simply awesome, very down to earth, and funny, also quite easy to talk to and approach. (hahaha let's wait for the testimonials and comments to set this straight ;) I guess I'm quite passionate about sports (mainly football), politics, movies, the world in general and how it has been and IS run.

Seriously though, it's best to just see for yourself or ask a particular question.

PHILOSOPHY

Don't really have one...I think life's too complicated and throws too many things at you to be summarized by a sentence or to be satisfactorily covered by a single philosophy...although I have to admit that some of the ones I found here on Couchsurfing sound awesome. :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm pretty new here, but I already volunteered to translate this portal into Slovak, to leave my mark in Couchsurfing history...no reply yet so we'll see how it works out. :D

Interests

Traveling of course and all the things related (meeting new people, seeing new things, new realities - except maybe for the 'traveling' part itself - probably cause I travel by RyanAir and other low costs so often :D)

Reading (lately mainly school related - philosophy, history, development, sexuality, politics), and especially my book that tries its best to teach me Portuguese, although I'm making it difficult :D

Watching movies/series/listening to music

Sports - both actively and passively (Gym, Muay Thai, Football, Swimming, ...)

And of course partying when the right place, people and atmosphere meet - which was way too often lately :)

• writing
• books
• running
• partying
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• painting
• music
• sports
• soccer
• swimming
• history
• study abroad

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Electronic, House, Trance - too many to list really, also depends on the mood...

Movies: Donnie Darko, 12 Monkeys, Les Invasions Barbares, The Prestige, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Waiting..., Wag The Dog, Shadow Company, Requiem For A Dream, Fight Club, American History X, V For Vendetta, Children Of Men, Cidade De Deus, La Haine, Full Metal Jacket, El Orfanato, Great Expectations, Lethal Weapon 4, Thank You For Smoking, Trainspotting, The War Within, Terminator, Terminator 2, Apocalypse Now, War At Home, Bulworth, Atonement, Session 9, Office Space, The Dark Knight, Pelíšky, Idiocracy, El Laberinto Del Fauno - many more of course...

Series: The Office, Arrested Development, Rome, Dexter, Generation Kill, Band of Brothers, Red Dwarf - this pretty much sums it up...

Books:Joseph Heller - Catch 22, Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet On The Western Front, George Orwell - 1984, Stephen King - It, Dean Koontz - Phantoms, Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States, Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried - also school related literature since I really like what I study...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

There probably were a bunch of amazing things I'd done and witnessed, but I'm a picky guy when it comes to 'amazing things', so I'll wait for something really incredible to write here. :D

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, United States, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Portugal, Slovakia, Thailand, United States

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