CURRENT MISSION

to leave this world a better place than how i found it....

ABOUT ME

Hello everyone. Charlie here. 22 years old and a recently moved to New York to work at an NGO.

PHILOSOPHY

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"There was a man, a very strange enchanted man, they say he wandered very far, very far over land and sea. A little shy and sad of eye, but very wise was he. And then one day, a magic day he passed my way, and while we spoke of many things, fools and kings, this he said to me, 'The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.'" -Nat King Cole

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Did two trips last year on Couchsurfing...hopefully doing many more....and inshallah when i move out of a cardboard chateau into a real flat...then I am going to have guests over all the time!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

awesome.

Interests

travel....duh, listening and collecting music, Cooking, speaking foreign languages, discussing grammatical structures and linguistics, black and white photography, dancing spontaneously, Going out with friends to a game or a sports bar, getting is heated discussions about politics with strangers adn friends alike then hugging and then grabbing a beer, discussing art history in hushed voices in galleries, modern and post-modern poetry readings, hiking & backpacking either cities or wilderness, loose tea, Beer gardens, wine tastings, Happy Hour with friends, watching foreign films in the dark with ice cream, reading national epic novels, spending hours on GeoogleEarth, building snowmen, Dr. Pepper, staying warm by the fireplace, collecting foreign currencies, riding on international subway systems, imagining future destinations at departure screens at airports, people watching at train stations, chasing pidgeons, ....

• arts
• poetry
• photography
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• wine tasting
• happy hour
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• magic
• music
• hiking
• backpacking
• sports
• art history
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Coldplay, Snow Patrol, Jay Brannan, Death Cab for Cutie, Doves, Keane, Portishead, The Fray, Mogwai, Sia, Sigur Rós, Vertical Horizon, U2, DJ Tiësto, Kylie Minogue, Mute Math, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Fred Astaire, Howie Day, Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, Madonna, the Hives, Mat Kearney, Chris Garneau, Athlete, Beck, Beyonce, Black Eyed Peas, Bob Sinclair, Boards of Canada, Bright Eyes, Cake, Cold War Kids, Daft Punk, Dandy Warhols, Depeche Mode, Dido, Dirty Vegas, Eels, Embrace, Eurythmics, Evermore, Fatboy Slim, Franz Ferdinand, Frou Frou, Garbage, Gorillaz, Gotan Project, Green Day, Guster, Gwen Stefani, Hooverphonics, Hard-FI, Imogen Heap, Ivri Lider, Linkin Park, Incubus, Jason Mraz, Jem, Jet, Jimmy Eat World, Joss Stone, Justice, Kelis, Kelly Clarkson, the Killers, MIA, Mae, Massive Attack, Missy Elliott, Moby, Nelly Furtado, No Doubt, Norah Jones, Oasis, Paul Oakenfold, Pink, Queen, Scissor Sisters, Juli, Simon & Garfunkel, Tiziano Ferro, KYO, Goo Goo Dolls, Kyle Riabko, Lenny Kravitz, Thin White Duke, Matchbox Twenty, The Postal Service, Turin Brakes, Scene Aesthetic, Sia, Stereophonics, Switchfoot, Theivery Corporation, Train, the Verve, Wilshire, Audioslave, Collective Soul, Counting Crows, The Crystal Method, Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Ben Folds, Lady Sovereign, Suzanne Vega, Pheonix, Natasha Bedingfield, Kanye West, Rihanna, Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright

Motorcycle Diaries, Whale Rider, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, James Bond, Laramie Project, Shortbus, The Mask of Zorro, Oceans 11, the Italian Job, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Finding Nemo, Enemy At The Gates, Out of Africa, Ace Ventura, Bruce Almighty, V For Vendetta, El Laberinto del Fauna, Amelie, Little Miss Sunshine, Das Leben Der Anderen, Paris Je T'aime, Piter FM

Stephen Chobsky, Dylan Thomas, Pablo Neruda, Federico Garcia Lorca, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, e.e. Cummings, Sappho, Walt Whitman, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Langston Hughes, J.K. Rowling, Bill Bryson, Maya Angelou, David Sedaris, Emmanuel Kant, Shakespeare, Jean Anouilh, Alan Paton, Jorge Luis Borges, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Franz Kafka, Lorrie Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Roethke, Rainer Maria Rilke, Anna Akhmatova, Yehuda Amichai, Boris Pasternak, WH Auden, Bertold Brecht, Noam Chomsky, and definetly not Dostoevsky.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

visited 34 states (15.1%)Create your own visited map of The World or try another Douwe Osinga project>

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hungary, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Panama, Puerto Rico, Saint Lucia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Uruguay, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Russian Federation, United States