Stephen has hosted a few times, in Japan. When we surf, we always try to contribute something for my hosts, whether it's cooking, cleaning, groceries, etc. Stephen has used this site for a few years now and had countless memorable experiences and developed fantastic friends through it. Stephen's first couchsurfing experience was in Wroclaw, Poland, with amazingly friendly and generous people. From then on, he was hooked! He loves the concept of this site and wishes it could be expanded to other areas of society as well.

Stephen: Books: One Hundred Years of Solitude; the Unbearable Lightness of Being; Remains of the Day; Anna Karenina; the Brothers Karamazov; the Moon and Sixpence; of Human Bondage; Madame Bovary; Guns, Germs, & Steel; Blink, Outliers; history books Movies: foreign films and nature documentaries Music: Central Asian throat-singing; African pygmy chants; Indian ragas; Bulgarian choirs, Swedish folk music, Tom Waits, Sia, jazz, classical Thao: Music: Beatles, Tom Waits, jazz Movies: Legend of the Fall, Life is Beautiful Books: The Science of Happiness, the Little Prince, Gone With the Wind