Young, blue-eyed and friendly. I have absolutely loved the experiences I've had with foreign friends from couchsurfing and beyond and hope to keep this with me in the everyday and on my little travels. I've been positively delighted by the variety and depth of human experience I've met upon my way and hope to keep this whole wondorous peter-pan thing going through our adulthoods.

(If you're staying with me, read my home. It'll prepare you, I promise)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To be part of a great community where we can help one another to lead more interesting lives.

Looking back on this I think it's working out pretty darn well.

Interests

I generally just try to get involved in whatever I can and it is rare that I find things to not suit me after spending a little time adjusting. Having time to commit fully to things is harder, but I try to make use of my time as well as possible.

• writing
• poetry
• theater
• beauty
• cooking
• electronic music
• piano
• indie pop
• spoken word
• martial arts
• jiu jitsu
• anthropology
• history
• mathematics
• philosophy
• physics
• psychology
• religion
• mythology
• quantum physics
• film
• litterature
• scouting
• magic the gathering
• larp
• russian literature
• classic literature
• public speaking
• herman hesse
• omar khayyam
• nabokov
• tolstoy
• borges
• louis ferdinand celine
• cervantes
• bulgakov
• formal debating
• dostojievskij
• michel houellebecq
• солженицын

Music, Movies, and Books

My guilty pleasure is summer-style happy upbeat pop, I can listen to that stuff no matter how dumb the lyrics and no matter how repetitive the music is. I feel almost as guilty about using EDM as work music, I feel like that neither impresses working people nor people who like EDM.

I've been kind of on a soul bend lately though, hearing people singing about being nice and lovely is just really nice and lovely. I'll be glad to share some danish drinking songs with you as well.

I really like Dostoyevsky. As in REALLY. If you like Dostoyevsky, it requires multiple crimes against humanity before I can start unliking you. (Is also true for a few other authors, I'm glad so few of my friends abuse human rights)

For movies I'm still exploring. I've seen a number and especially love how much of the experience can be shared. Tarkovsky doesn't make sense to me, but I like the obsessiveness. "The Florida Project" and "The Big Lebowski" were riveting and finally, "Gandhi" and "Metropolis" implanted some values in me that I can't seem to shake.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I would love to just put the lump sum of benign human interaction I have had. But my best story is probably the time I was rated an extreme threat to safety by Isreali airport security for being such a forgetful boyfriend.

Teach, Learn, Share

White sugar is fine if you're making fudge. Demererra is just if you are feeling fancy.

If you put a piece of toilet paper into the toilet before you poop, you can avoid splashes.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I usually find something to talk about, and those conversations usually come out very good. However, I am also capable of shutting up when the situation calls for it.

In that case, I could also easily do some laundry/dishes/uprooting weeds. If you are sharing your house with me, easing your burden of owning a house is the least I can do.

I study how our world works, specializing in light. So if you need to know why the sky is blue or how the world might end, I'd also love to teach what physics, chemistry and mathematics I know.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Brazil, China, England, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Peru, Russian Federation, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland