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Overview

  • 46 references 9 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Korean, Yue (Cantonese)
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Sustainable Development Practitioner
  • Masters in Development Practice
  • From Toronto, Canada, North America, Earth, Milky Way, Universe
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Exploring, learning and living! Looking to include awesome people in my life!

ABOUT ME

Come meet me to fill this in for yourself! =D

My top 3 things:
1) I love to travel (best way to learn!)
2) I love outdoor adventures
3) I love to party

I've started a blog on my travels with videos to accompany. Check them out!

http://explorationsevolution.blogspot.ca/

PHILOSOPHY

Exploring cultures, meeting locals and expanding my view of the world.

Having a greater insight of every perspective from everyone will increase global awareness and understanding of each other which hopefully will lead to less hatred in the world and more acceptance of everyone's differences, cultures and ideals.

Exploring myself through different types of adventures to lead to my own understanding of self and global relations to which we are all connected and an integral part of.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We are sharing our culture, different perspectives, viewpoints to be more globally aware. To enrich ourselves and ones surrounding us. We are out there to learn about the world. Not take away from it. Not try and conquer it. Not impose different ideas and ideology on others. As surfers go across borders and break down the idea of territorial space, we find out who people really are behind the schemes of cultural and political differences: We are still people. We laugh, we sing, we play, we have fun, we live, and we learn.We help each other out when we're in need. We extend a hand when other travellers who are stuck. We visit other countries as tourists, but when we leave friends beg us to stay.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfing (and not in the ocean! Tee hee... but would be inclined to try!!)
Emergency hosting
CS gatherings
Information sharing

Interests

Outdoor adventures; mountain biking (xc and dh), road biking, touring, skiing, camping, portaging, white water, adventure travelling, rock climbing etc**Have done some extensive travelling via bicycling, sailing (Among the normal ways of travelling ie flying)

Party scene: concerts, parties, music festivals, spinning poi and drumming circles**Music includes: drum and bass, jungle, goa trance, rock, classic rock, industrial, jazz, classical, punk, trance, hardcore, indie rock, alternative, trip hop, happy hardcore, acid jazz, acid rock, dub, breaks, progressive trance, progressive instrumental, instrumental, experimental, dark dnb, dark trance, progressive rock, fusion, brazilian dnb

Meeting up with people to go travelling! Will you be the next awesome person that is privileged in knowing me?!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I cannot put one most amazing thing done in my lifetime. My life is just amazing ;)

\(^_^)/

Teach, Learn, Share

Everything we do, every interaction we encounter is a learning experience, a sharing experience, and a teaching experience. Some are more aware, some are less. Which one are you?

Teach me something new and you will have already learned a multitude of things for yourself.

=)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Botswana, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Korea, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Indonesia, Italy, South Korea, Tanzania

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