CURRENT MISSION To know more people... from more places... ABOUT ME A nice chap really when you get to know me... direct.. honest... a bit old-fashioned PHILOSOPHY Life is like a telegram, a series of dots and dashes never forming a paragraph... Feelings: 'Life is a tragedy for those who feel'... Thoughts: 'A comedy for those who think'
Interested in Adventure Sports
Fluent in Arabic
Learning German
Pioneer Badge
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING I read about it on the internet, loved the idea of meeting fellow like-minded travelers whether as a host, guest or just for meeting and joined. I haven't been disappointed! COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE A room in Seoul, Korea by a school teacher who wanted me to address her class, A double bed in Boston offered by a lady marine biologist, a couch in a lonely old man's house in Odense, Denmark who wanted to celebrate his birthday with somebody...
Music, Movies, and Books
Brahms 3rd symphony, Beethoven's 3rd, 100 years of Solitude, Kafka's Citadel, everything written by Graham Greene, plenty more..
One Amazing Thing I've Done
Flying in a balloon over the fairy chimneys in Capadoccia, Turkey, climing Gunung Batar in Bali Indonesia, rowing a reed-boat on lake Titicaca between Peru and Bolivia
Teach, Learn, Share
Being a university professor, I teach all the time... Perhaps it's not so exciting to teach medicine or research principles to travelers on the road, so I am ready to teach and learn about different cultures in this world... The tribes of Africa is something I am very curious about...
My Interests
Literature, classical music, traveling
