ABOUT ME ***Maybe I will answer you from a shared profile with my gf since I cannot always access to mine My name is Manuel (Manu) and I am from the north of Spain but living in Madrid with my gf and 3 more flatmates. After studying Chemistry and working on research in different countries, I had a big change in my life when I was 27 and I went to Chile where I spent more than 2 years collaborating in a humble school in Patagonia. I felt so satisfied with my life that I was thinking to stay there for ever but finally I came back and I taught in Spain and England till 2014 -Trying to teach not just the subjects but also important things for life, like the ones I learnt in South America...- We even founded a Charity: www.university4all.org But due to different reasons, things changed again and now I don't teach full time, but I run a serviced accommodation business in Birmingham (UK), and traveling as much as I can. I am doing the following blog: www.travel.gago.info where I want to give useful information about CouchSurfing and HitchHiking around the world. BTW, I´m 1,95 metres tall (6.5 ft) but I fit in any bed or maybe floor :) PHILOSOPHY - Many small people doing many small things in many small places can change the world - You must be the change You wish to see in the world (Gandhi)