Word Association:
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☕️ Coffee shops (for actual coffee, not substances)
🏴‍☠️ Street art
🏡 Making community
✈️ Travel
📚 Story-telling,
👯‍♂️ New friends
📘 Perpetual learner
🏳️‍🌈 Gay/queer
🏊‍♂️ Skinny dipping

Takes on Life:
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- Practice empathy.
- Respect nature.
- Love someone.
- Don't give crappy hugs - no bro pats.

Other tidbits:
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- Community building in opposition of the loneliness epidemic is important to me.

- In the warmer months I'm into hiking, camping, swimming, etc.

IG: @iosuapetitjean

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING:
A good conversation is a great place to start. I like to skip the small talk and love learning from other people and discussing things that interest them. I've hosted and travelled much, but since moving to Boston that has become difficult - space is expensive here.

For now I can mostly only offer my services as a tour guide and dinner buddy, but solo travelers feel free to reach out. I have a sofa and a shared bed that would be ok for 1 surfer, but have 2 housemates as well.

The couch is in a highly used shared space, the other option is sharing the queen bed.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Hosted loads of people prior to my current apartment, surfed Europe, India, S. Korea, and S. Africa now back to hosting solo travelers for a while when I can and my housemates allow me to.

Interests

🥳 The fun stuff: good people, conversation, a great cup of coffee, interesting media, life experiences, people watching, random sayings, radical faeries

🧐 The serious stuff: cultural identity, behavioral economics, public policy, human behavior, behavior change, rights of the child, social determinants of health, leftist politics, alternative economies

• street art
• lgbt rights
• camping
• entrepreneurship
• public policy
• art
• queer
• skinny dipping
• graffiti
• gayfriendly

Music, Movies, and Books

📺 TV: Frieren, Altered Carbon, Wheel of Time, Game of Thrones [before it got crap], Arcane, Mystery of Aravos, Orange is the New Black, Last Airbender

🎥 Films: What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Into the Wild, Closer, Shame, Shortbus, Ender's Game, Cloud Atlas

Horror, sci-fi, and high fantasy are my favorites, followed by thrillers, comedy, and action/adventure ... but as long as it either has a good plot/writing OR visuals, I'm usually entertained.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

🇲🇿 Lived in rural Mozambique and coordinated a project to co-develop malaria education tools with local community health activists

Teach, Learn, Share

🎨 Arts n Crafts out of found objects
📆 Distributed project/event coordination using online resources

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Dominica, England, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Martinique, Mexico, Mozambique, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Martin (French part), Scotland, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Virgin Islands, U.S.

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Mexico, Mozambique, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States

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