CURRENT MISSION Relocated to Kigali, Rwanda. Will be here for a few years. ABOUT ME Hello. I am a 52 year old man from Ottawa, Canada. I am a high school teacher. I have lived in various countries, including Japan, Ecuador, Scotland, Swaziland, Israel and the Marshall Islands. I would like to keep seeing the world, but in a stay-and-travel sense. I walked the Camino in September 2023 (the Camino Frances- 790km). I took the year off. That was a full year of adventure! I rarely have a glass of wine. I definitely don't smoke. I try to be a role-model for my students. PHILOSOPHY I believe that people are generally good, and except for a few bad apples, most of us are just trying to learn a little more about the rest of us. My personal motto is 十人十色 (ju nin to iro), which translates literally to ten people ten colours. It can mean a lot of things, but for me, it means that we are all living on the same planet and though we may all disagree, we need to figure out a way to co-exist. There is strength in diversity.
Intéressé(e) par Pâtisserie
Intéressé(e) par Cuisine
Courant en Anglais
En train d'apprendre Langue des signes américaine
Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I am a very easy person to get along with, and I am very low maintenance. COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE Have been couchsurfing for years long before it was official- just meeting people along the way who have invited me in to get out of the rain... or have invited me to camp in their backyards.
Musique, films et livres
I love movies with a purpose. not a big fan of horror or thriller movies, but movies that make you think. Will read anything, slowly, but I generally avoid science-fiction. When I am on vacation, I make it a goal to catch up on all the reading that I don't really get done during the year. The heaviest part of my backpack is novels.
Une chose incroyable que j'ai faite
I am a people person. I love crowded market-places and meeting locals and just sitting and learning about the culture. I think seeing Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe was a pretty incredible experience, but so are those moments when you are able to understand someone without any language in common. Oh, and I think everyone in the world should experience traffic in Dhaka, Bangladesh (and Ho Chi Minh City!)...
Ce que je peux offrir à mes hôtes
Good conversation!
Mes centres d'intérêt
Traveling, eating (good, cheap food), reading, talking about the world and nothing at all, reading the newspaper, watching movies, singing, running, walking endlessly... I lived in Japan for 5 years and I fell in love with onsens (hot-springs), especially in the middle of winter with snow falling all around! I haven't been back in a while and I miss it!