COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE CS has helped me to change the way of seeing traveling, not only as an entertainment but also as a resource for personal development as a result of being introduced to different realities of self-being and approaches to personal space. HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Being introduced into the movement mostly as a host in Kiev city, I started to love it from the same beginning. After I moved to Poland, I have been surfing more often. Then, I lived in the suburbs of Barcelona, overpriced super touristic city, and I was hosting more, but got tired of free loaders, so I stopped doing CS altogether. Currently, I'm back in Wroclaw and decided to check on CS again, lets see what it brings :)

In my opinion, one of the most important components of the CS relationship is to share. To share thoughts, feelings, knowledge, experience, eye contact and even, sometimes, deep soul contact. For me, hosting someone is not only letting someone sleeping at my place, is to share my world, my house, and I expect the same in return from my guests. The same demands I have to myself while surfing. It is like in a hotel or hostel, but you are paying with engagement into the reality of another person or people, with all the consequences like respecting other's personal space, sharing time together, cleaning up after yourself and sharing glossary instead of consuming, etc.