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Overview

  • 30 references 20 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Norwegian; learning Arabic (Egypt), German, Russian
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Procrastinating with pleasure
  • philosophy and now studying russian in st. petersburg
  • From Rogaland, Norway
  • Profile 95% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Cleaning.

ABOUT ME

I'm a lot more into yes than no. Yes, please, I'd like some of that. Basically I like to get away from my mailbox and rather get absorbed into whatever situation I stumble into.

PHILOSOPHY

It's political.

Fear, and also fear of fearing is what I fear. Lets be ruthlessly critical and constructive.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I host and I surf.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted many times and I've surfed some quite a lot when I hitch-hiked from Norway, through Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey again and ending up in Beirut, Lebanon.

Interests

Climbing trees, occasionally mountains. Graveyards. Meeting new people from wherever everywhere. How to do replace an exploitative capitalist system with something else, what? Swimming naked in cold water, skiing dressed in cold weather, walking, talking, good drinking, news and mostly doing something new elsewhere.

  • walking
  • drinking
  • news
  • skiing
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

A lot in between the range of noisy improvised music, Wagner, Gorecki, Scooter and Dolly Parton. I have a book shelf that I'm afraid outsmarts me, but it's contents, mostly philosophy/politics/history and some novels like e.g. Kharms, Houllebecq, Dostoevsky and Hamsun do interest me. Movies I like them old and new, russian, prussian, whatever and especially documentaries. Radio is super cool too.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Climbed up to 5109m in Africa and hitch-hiked about 14000000m in Eurasia.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'll teach you a lesson!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Latvia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Morocco, Russian Federation, Scotland, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Greece, Russian Federation

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