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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Japanese
  • 37, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Reading anything and everything except Japanese textbooks...
  • University of Wikipedia, enrolled but spectacularly flunk...
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About Me

Thank you for all the messages! Kyoto is an extremely popular place for tourists; I am pretty busy with work and I get way too many requests to reply to everybody. Please don't be dissuaded, feel free to message me, and sorry if I don't get back to you.

Also...PLEASE don't change your plans at the last minute. I understand if you are late or get lost or whatever. But making other plans for accommodation, requesting last minute extra guests, asking me to come and meet you at 6am etc. is NOT COOL and goes against the culture of Couch Surfing. It's not easy for me to host people, I usually have to make pretty big allowances in my schedule in advance whenever I agree to let someone stay, and I die a little on the inside when stuff like that happens. Sorry, I've had a few bad experiences lately.

xx

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バラ色のキャンパスライフを探しています。

Melbourne born (but not fully bred), arts student, cafe worker, former emo kid, part-time hipster, perennial geek.

オーストラリアのメルボルン市生まれ育ち。日本に来て5年目。旅人。夜行性。音楽と読書のオタク。ベジタリアン。

This website just asked me 'why do you live your life?' Never thought about it like that before.

一期一会。。。って書きたいんだけどもっと個性的なのないかな?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I like couches, and sitting on them. My couch is pretty nice and you're welcome to have a sit!

カウチが好きで、カウチに座るのも好きです。

Interests

music // reading // movies // tech // healthy livin' // socialisin'

音楽・・読書・・映画・・食い物・・呑み・・冒険・・出会い

  • arts
  • culture
  • beer
  • technology
  • movies
  • reading
  • music
  • surfing
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • beaches
  • mountains

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Witnessed a supermarket burning down and a small-scale riot in Cambodia.

Climbing a sacred mountain and being ransacked by monkeys in China.

Riding (and crashing) motorbikes in the hills of Vietnam.

Swimming amongst shapes, colours and patterns that I could never find the words to describe in the Great Barrier Reef.

A day spent battling on space hoppers on the beach in Mexico.

Tripping hard on mushrooms in a remote valley in Ecuador.

Nearly losing eyes, limbs, other appendages due to wayward fireworks in Peru on New Years Eve.

Too many weird and wacky experiences in Japan to even begin to list.

What I Can Share with Hosts

A guided night tour around Kyoto's ancient streets, geisha spotting, Kyoto's best beer and cheap eats.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Germany, Hong Kong, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, South Korea, Taiwan, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Japan

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