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Overview

  • 26 references 19 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Swedish; learning French, Turkish
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Grid analyst
  • Too much
  • From Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION
Meeting people, eating lasagna, learn to play more instruments.

ABOUT ME
Only ask for coach no more than 2 weeks into the future! Otherwise its hard for me to know if i can host you.

Finished my masters degree in energy engineering (in Uppsala). Did my thesis on cold climate wind turbines for a company in Stockholm.

WORK
Working with software development. Worked summers at camp for kids with mental disabilities. Ive also worked a lot as teacher of theatre/drama and various instruments, mainly guitar.

EDUCATION
Music gymnasium, in university: theatre, computer science, pedagogy, french, natural science and two years of theatre teacher. Now also a masters of energy engineering. That's another 5 years... TOO MUCH!

FREE TIME
Create and play games, meet friends, dance, watch a lot of film, play and compose music.

I cook (a lot of) lasagna and pie. I dont eat much meat but sometimes. Was vegetarian before.

Interests

Theatre, music (playing and composing), science n computers, film, politics, meeting people, languages and history. I also enjoy the occational beer or club.

These are my instruments at the moment
Electric Piano
Electric guitar
Acustic guitar
Russian mandolin
european mandolin
Full size jembe
small jembe
Keyboard
Harmonica
Jew's harp
Recorder
Small pan flute
Rababa
Tambourine
Organ
Saz (turkish lute)
(im ok with most of them but some needs a lot more practice:)

  • education
  • cooking
  • beer
  • vegetarian
  • coach
  • clubbing
  • politics
  • socializing
  • music
  • guitar
  • piano
  • camping
  • jewish
  • computer science
  • teaching
  • engineering
  • history
  • languages
  • science

Music, Movies, and Books

My favourite is a book about a chieftain in a isolated island who complain about the European way of life (written in eary 20th century). Check it out, called "Papalagi, the white man".

I watch a lot of movies. Nice films include: la cite des enfants perdus, welcome to pleasantville, Cidade de Deus, the hours, all lotr-movies, crash, crouching tiger, finding neverland, apocalypse now, shawshank redemtion. And the Simpsons of course.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once wrote a music piece while dreaming, it was a pretty kick-ass song. But once awaken, i only remembered how the bass should play. I miss that song sometimes, but i have no idea what it sounded like...

Countries I’ve Visited

Croatia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Russian Federation, Sweden

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