General Information
| VERIFIED MEMBER (2) more info | | Couch available | Coffee or a drink |
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| CouchSurf requests replied to | 100% |
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| member since | August 16th, 2006 |
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| profile views | 985 |
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| age | 25 |
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| gender | Male |
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| membername | GMALIVUK |
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| occupation | English Teacher |
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| education | BAs in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Michigan, CELTA certificate to teach English |
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| grew up in | Allegan, MI, USA |
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| ethnicity | American (perhaps not an ethnicity, but you see my picture...) |
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Languages- EnglishExpert
- SpanishIntermediate
Groups I Belong ToMichigan 864:152
Why: I'll be back at home in Michigan October through December
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Couch Information
Couch Available: Coffee or a drink
Preferred Gender: AnyI've recently moved to Boston, and am currently not living in a place very conducive to hosting people. But I would be more than happy to meet people who are here. My current job leaves me the afternoons pretty much completely free every day. Friends (6)
 MISSHIGHLANDS
26, Female
Glasgow, Scotland
United Kingdom
Friends since August 2006
"Met doing CELTA course in Mexico"
Friendship Type: 4 - Friend
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 Héctor tobón y Hernández
59, Male
Mexico City, Distrito Federal
Mexico
Friends since April 2007
"He visit my home during the visit of a couple of german friends."
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
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 Julia Pelaez Avila
23, Female
Muenster, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Friends since April 2007
"We spend some time together in Mexico City while he was couch surfing with the boyfriend of the daughter of the friend me and my sister stayed with."
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
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 Abraham Avellana
24, Male
Mexico City, Distrito Federal
Mexico
Friends since April 2007
"Greg stayed in my couch for a week, interesting guy."
Friendship Type: 3 - CouchSurfing Friend
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 Julija Jakovleva
23, Female
Vilnius, Vilniaus
Lithuania
Friends since September 2006
"i met greg in a monkey hostel, campeche, mx"
Friendship Type: 2 - Acquaintance
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 Michelle Laporte
26, Female
Sault Ste Marie, Ontario
Canada
Friends since May 2007
"Greg introduced me to couchsurfing!"
Friendship Type: 2 - Acquaintance
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Personal DescriptionRecently moved to Boston, MA, and would be happy to meet travelers and show them around a bit.How I Participate in CS2So far I've mainly been participating by meeting with people coming to my city, since I have no couch of my own to offer. I hope to be able to offer my own place to travelers once I get a place the US in a few months, though.CouchSurfing ExperienceMy only actual surfing experience was a week or so in DF last April. It was great fun, and I definitely plan to seek out other CS hosts next time I'm on the move.Intereststravel (obviously), meeting new people, feminism, philosophy, human rights, and plenty of other stuff. I also enjoy collecting the phrase "I do not speak [language]" in as many languages as I can.PhilosophyI think my philosophy is pretty well summarized by my current mission.
If you want to talk about the actual academic side of philosophy, I can probably do that to, but it'd be hard (and mostly pointless) to summarize all those views here.Music, Movies, BooksI find some enjoyable aspect of most kinds of music, especially if whoever's producing it is clearly skilled. There are some styles here and there that I don't particularly like, but even with those I could probably come to change my mind if I had some understanding of why you like it. A Simple Plan, however, unless you listen to it for irony, sucks.
The fiction I most often choose to read for fun tends to be sci-fi, but some of the most worthwhile novels I've read are in other genres. With nonfiction, my tastes are about as wide-ranging as they are with music. It's not unusual for me to read a book on theoretical physics right before or after one on something like feminism or evolutionary psychology.Types of People I enjoyI find a great many people fascinating. That doesn't mean we'll necessarily get along, but if you know about or are good at something a bit out of the ordinary, we should at least be able to have an interesting conversation.
Also, you probably need at least a moderate streak of sarcasm in your own personality to get along very well with my sense of humor.Teach, Learn, Share"Uncopyrightable" is the longest commonly-used English word in which no letter is repeated. More importantly, New Zealand has the highest per-capita use of corrugated steel of any country in the world.Opinion on the CouchSurfing.com ProjectI think this is a wonderful idea. I haven't surfed with many people yet, but I hope to do more in the future. Certainly there's the issue of not being sure people are who they say they are, but that's what the verification and vouching systems are for. Besides, it's not like I know ahead of time who I'll be with when I pay to stay in a hostel.Locations TraveledTRAVELED: Australia, Guatemala, Mexico, New Zealand
LIVED: Mexico, United States
References
 From Adriana Huerta Viga Merida, Mexico
Sep 4, 2007  Positive I met Greg a couple of nights while he traveled in Mérida and we had very nice time together. He's a smart and easy going person, I hope we can meet again. From Julia Pelaez Avila Muenster, Germany
Jun 26, 2007 Positive During the week me and my sister stayed in Mexico City we hung out quite a lot with Greg and Abraham, the guy he was couchsurfing with. Greg is an interesting person and once you touch upon a topic he likes to talk about you can have great conversations with him.
From Héctor tobón y Hernández Mexico City, Mexico
May 22, 2007 Positive A man who obviusly wants to travel and he find the way for to do it.
From Abraham Avellana Mexico City, Mexico
Apr 27, 2007 Positive Greg is a very interesting man. We share some likings, like linguistics, maths, phylosophy and music, so we had interesting conversations together. Funny time with this guy.
From Julija Jakovleva Vilnius, Lithuania
Sep 23, 2006  Positive i didn't have a chance to talk a lot to greg, because he had to leave to another city. but i can really tell that he is nice and friendly person and i would have enjoyed talking to him more if it was possible :) |
