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Overview

  • 18 references 10 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Indonesian, Russian
  • 43, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Environmental Scientist
  • BEnvSc, Murdoch University
  • From Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To wander the earth

ABOUT ME

I am a 32 year old from Australia who loves the beach, food, languages and cultures and travel in random countries. I have been travelling and working through europe and asia for 4 years, and have settled in Melbourne where I have built a permaculture garden at my house with chickens and many fruit trees.

PHILOSOPHY

To be kind and helpful to fellow humans, animals and the earth.
To have fun!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

opening the couch for others to share in respect for the people who opened their couch for me.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Couchsurfing in poland, slovakia, UK, russia, kyrgyzstan, kazakhstan and tasmania. Being a host in Perth, Australia.

Interests

The earth and its people.
Conserving the environment.
Traditional ways of life
permaculture
ethnology
languages

  • animals
  • chickens
  • environment
  • dining
  • gardening
  • traveling
  • languages
  • beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

books - a fortunate life, city of joy, freedom at midnight, kite runner, three cups of tea, eugene onegin, amritsar to lahore, the gilgit game, oxford english dictionary, war and peace, the cancer ward, the one straw revolution, bill mollison's permaculture design manual, guns germs and steel

movies - Clockwork orange, forest gump, trainspotting, two hands, stand by me;

any music;

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Bought my plane ticket out of Australia, learning local languages, discovering couchsurfing

Teach, Learn, Share

To grow good vegetables!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belize, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Estonia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, North Korea, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, United Kingdom

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