Noel Firkin's Photo

Verified Profile

  • Payment verified
  • Phone not verified
  • Government ID not verified
  • Address Verified

Not Accepting Guests

  • Last login over 1 year ago

Join Couchsurfing to see Noel’s full profile.

Overview

  • 74 references 31 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning German, Japanese, Spanish
  • 55, Male
  • Member since 2006
  • Currently traveling, camping and climbing. Oh and working.
  • By other peoples experiences entwined with my own.
  • From Kiama, New South Wales, Australia
  • Profile 100% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To help as many people get what they want in life as I can. Meet great people and experience the real people, country and culture. "How much beauty is gained from a moment that selflessly passes!"

ABOUT ME

Likes to laugh and enjoys other´s stories. I am a rock climber and a diver. I like to think I will give anything a go and would love to learn to BASE jump. I enjoy Ashtanga Yoga and have done a couple of martial arts. I like to think I'm unique, just like everybody else.

PHILOSOPHY

I've never met someone I haven't liked.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I intend to diminish cultural boundaries by offering my friendship to all. I will definitely host when I'm not traveling. So I can share the same spirit of CS I have encountered with others.

"How much beauty is gained from a moment that selflessly passes!"

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I stayed with a Kurdish farming family in Eastern Turkey. They had 13 children and half the house was a cowshed. I went to the school and was mobbed by the students. The best thing was seeing how even with no material wealth these people were very rich. These teaches would hug the children and it was like one big family.

Interests

Helping people, rock climbing, hiking, scuba diving and yoga. A good book. Different cultures.

  • arts
  • culture
  • books
  • beauty
  • yoga
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • scuba diving
  • martial arts
  • rock climbing
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

My favourite is Last Of The Mohicans. Very stirring. LOTR. Ice Age. Princess Bride, Matrix, SW. FF. Rob Roy
Music: All.
Book: Robert The Bruce King Of Scots, LOTR.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I witnessed the birth of my sister. I took her on her first overseas trip to Tonga, Independent Samoa and American Samoa. We spent a month there and I wish we could have stayed for a year.

Teach, Learn, Share

You can have everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want.
I need to learn German and Japanese but all languages are interesting to me. I have been picking up bits and pieces as I go but it's never enough.

"Serve others and Karma will take care of everything!"

If you want to have a go at rock climbing drop me a line.

Countries I’ve Visited

American Samoa, Australia, Denmark, England, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Philippines, Samoa, Scotland, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tonga, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vanuatu

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

Old School Badges

  • 15 Vouches
  • Pioneer Badge

Join Couchsurfing to see Noel’s full profile.

My Groups