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Overview

  • 86 references 69 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Finnish; learning Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Oxygen consumer, freelance sailor-boat-builder-naval-arch...
  • Professional boat-builder's diploma + BEng on Yacht &...
  • From Porvoo
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Being positive!

ABOUT ME

Very calm and friendly person, many people call me slow, but I don´t think I am! :) Traveller spirit, loving the sea and sailing, like building things from wood (especially boats). Also long-time skateboarder and graffiti writer. Playing flute and like gardening as well a lot. Now I want to learn surfing and be better on skiing...

I like seeing new place whether it´s in my hometown, Finland or anywhere in the world. I love riding with my bike an being outside. Nature is great inspiration too.

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PHILOSOPHY

Life is a gift so better live it like that! I am often quite worried about what´s happening in the world on these days and try to live as sustainably as possible and help somehow the people who have the worse situation than I. I like to wake up people and now I don't mean sleeping, but something more deeper. We have to be able to question our current norms and beliefs both on personal and on society levels. We have to open our eyes and really understand what is happening in this planet. Start to think with our own brain and let the spirit of love guide us. Otherwise the raping of our beautiful planet will continue until it's not anymore possible for us to live on it. Stop and think about this madness what you see everyday around you.
Change will start from inside. Ultimately, all is one.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Hosting people when I have a place suited for that and surfing when travelling. Spreading the word of this amazing site!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed on many couches in Poland, Turkey, England, Ukraine, Sweden, Finland, Romania, Russia, Portugal, Norway, Iran, India, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and USA. Also hosted whole bunch of people couple of years ago with my brother at our place in Turku, Finland, when living there.

Interests

Skateboarding, flute and percussions playing, gardening, sailing and sea-faring, graffiti and street art in general, people, making the world better place to live, vipassana meditation, permaculture, alternative construction methods and energy sources, naval architecture and boat-building.

  • arts
  • architecture
  • street art
  • meditation
  • gardening
  • boating
  • traveling
  • painting
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • sailing
  • skateboarding
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

Many styles of music: reggae, soul, funk, hiphop, jazz, cuban music, western african music, brazil´s music, finnish folk music, electronic music

I like books and movies from where you can learn somethig from life. For example:Satish Kumar: No Destination, Ekhart Tolle: The Power of Now, James Redfield: Celestine Prophesy , all of the Paolo Coelho's books, Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, Kymatica, Esoteric Agenda, Inside Job, Surplus, Inception, mostly documentaries, Donnie Darko, Blueberry,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sailed over the Atlantic ocean with over 100 years old wooden sailing ship, visiting Antarctica Peninsula, 10 days Vipassana meditation retreat.

Teach, Learn, Share

Building things from wood, painting with aerosols, gardening, sailing, flute playing

Countries I’ve Visited

Antarctica, Argentina, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curaçao, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Grenada, Hungary, India, Iran, Martinique, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Spain, Sweden, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Finland

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