CURRENT MISSION

Giving back some of the hospitality and friendship I received during traveling 😊
As well as having a great time and studying (bachelor for now, but looking forward to the masters program)

My girlfriend and I are now trying to host a few surfers. But we wanna keep up the couchsurfing spirit, so the requests should be personalized. Have a look at my profile and take some time to think about, why I might be the right host. I'll get back to any request/message. But probably NOT to a copy and paste one... So if you wanna crash here - write a personal request after checking my ENTIRE profile. There's lots of people who wanna stay in Vienna, and just asking "can we sleep on your couch" isn't in the CS spirit at all! Put in some effort and increase your chances for a reply and a place to stay. ☺️

ABOUT ME

It´s really hard to tell but I guess spontaneous, outgoing, friendly and intelligent, curious, fun, open-minded, straight, athletic, understanding, polite, CRAZY ^^ and so on :-) Just find it out ;-)

Please add me on Facebook, if you want to... Username: Da Augi // I also use whatsapp and usually text my number in the couchrequest if I don´t forget ^^

I really learned a lot in 2014 - started slacklining, tried different flips and jumps (like backflip), finally started yoga classes and so much more :-D

PHILOSOPHY

Treat others the way you want to be treated

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Update 2019 - check out the entire profile, when considering to shoot a request. Thanks!

Update 2018: I'm sorry for all those who wrote me a lovely couch request. I didn't come back to you, because I never received the messages from couchsurfing. Unfortunately the messaging system doesn't quite work. I now have the app and a new phone so I should at least be getting your messages! If we're free and have space we'll try to host anybody who writes a nice and considerate request! A short copy and paste one won't do it, because that's not the spirit of CS ;) see ya! Important side note: preferably we can host on weekends, because Andrea works weekdays and I have university or work as well.

Whereever the wind takes me :-) I always try to help my hosts in household, their job/studies, ...
Guess I'd call myself an experienced couchsurfer by now (after using this amazing service actively for over 2 year's) 😄 I always try to be considerate, flexible, polite, fun, helpful - in general a legendary bloke, and think it works out pretty well 😜

I try to give back as much as I can! :-D

*IMPORTANT information*

Here's a little explanation about the person who wouldn't host me again (although I never stayed with him) 😅 he's living in Guatemala city, "active" on couchsurfing since 2008 and has 4 (in words - four) references... That's how I responded to his "not hosting anymore": Hey Jonathan I just wanna make some things clear about your comment here, first of all I didn't request to stay with you - you invited me to stay on December 30th 2015 (guess you saw my public trip).

Secondly I didn't ditch you last moment! Going through our chat history: you invited me on December 30th 2015, I replied and accepted the same day, you responded on 31st of December and got a reply from me 9 minutes later... On January 6th 2016, January 10th and 11th I wrote you messages without any response until the 15th of January! In the meantime got another invitation from the Austrian host... I never said I'd feel better staying with Austrians, but that I'd be curious how they live in Guatemala.

I did respond to your offer of advice and the opportunity of checking out your articles with a "Thank you 😋" one day after receiving it.

For your future couchsurfing experience I'd recommend you to check out your inbox more frequently after inviting someone. I never meant to disappoint you but for me as an experienced and seasoned traveler and couchsurfer there's nothing worse than unreliable host's or guests (or people to meet up with). And I simply didn't want to arrive in Guatemala city just to find out nobody is picking up the phone or so (like it happened to me few times in other countries)... Got pretty selective by choosing host's carefully because those situations suck - I don't say it would've happened with you, don't get me wrong - but it isn't worth the risk and the hassle. Thanks anyways and greetings from Honduras ✌

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Great experience!! :-D US american, australian, Kiwi, Asian, European and Latin American people are really awesome! And of course the traveling people I meet! ;-) update: I'd still say the exact same thing - was traveling Europe in the past 5,5 month's and got hosted / met up with so many fantastic people 😍 got pretty experienced reading the hosts profiles and actually choosing the right one (kind of the perfect match) 😉

Also had great experiences hosting people from Austria, Great Britain, Vietnam, Hungary, USA :-D

Interests

Hitchhiking, High diving, Slacklining, Climbing, weight training but rather streetworkout (calisthenics), X box, movies, music, music and nightlife, festivals, nature - hiking, culture & history, reading books (on my kindle but also the real ones) and many more. And of course TRAVELING!! 😍

• wildlife
• insects
• reptiles
• culture
• books
• acting
• festivals
• chinese new year
• capoeira
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• beer
• yoga
• nightlife
• partying
• boating
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music
• jazz
• hiking
• camping
• mountaineering
• surfing
• scuba diving
• skydiving
• baseball
• boxing
• rock climbing
• swimming
• history
• languages
• hitchhiking
• sightseeing
• beaches
• lakes
• rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Sooooooo many! I like Movies that make me think and the same for books. I love Music, mostly pretty calm or alternative... But I´m totally open for new things :-) there's plenty of thrillers I like but also dramas or comedies (you actually never know beforehand if you'll like a movie or book so just give it a try) 😋

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

traveling alone to albania and spain
for work
visting several rock festivals in austria
sightseeing in Amsterdam ;-)
Skydiving - two times
Traveling alone in America (USA), Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Macau & Hong Kong, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, Malaysia and Great Britain :-D
Making amazing friends all over the world 😍

Honestly there are just too many things, to mention them here seems impossible ^^ But I´ll try in a "little" summary of my first long term journey:

Apparently time flies when you´re having fun - I totally agree!! Left austria almost for a year on march 2nd 2013, not knowing what to expect and it turned out to be one of the most amazing experiences in my life!! <3 Never had a job, but did tiling in Manhatten and Staten Island, cut a hosts hair in LA, built a mobile shower in Hawaii, did timberwork in Melbourne, painted an apparment in Canberra, cleaned a "spaceshuttle" bathroom in Tokyo, almost got a teaching job in China and Laos, built a hammock and a swing on a lonely island of Lankawi and carved a wooden spoon there, helped improving a floating home on Langkawi and always washed the dishes ;-) Saw a lot of wildlife - wild bears and racoons in California, a coyote in Death Valley, moose at Grand Canyon, a huge seaturtle in Oahu, wild kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, koalas, parrots in Australia, opossums, parrots, hawks, cockatoos, dolphins, babyseals and of course sheep in New Zealand, millions of butterflys and dragonflys in Japan, locked up pandas in Macau, was riding on an ostrich in Vietnam and saw a few monkeys there, saw many monkeys and a few locked up elephants in Cambodia and Thailand, a hornbil and a varan on a small island of Thailand, jellyfish, rainbow fishes, sea urchins and a seasnake in the oceans around Thailand, a lot of monitor lizards and poisonous snakes (even a scorpion) in Malaysia... Did so many incredible things like getting lost in Manhatten, going on Empire Statebuilding, getting my tongue pierced in Chinatown, picking up a homeless guy, going to a stripclub & getting a lapdance, saw the St. Patricks day parade in Manhattan (had a car accident that day ^^), picked up a homeless guy in Chinatown (Manhattan), celebrated Springbreak in Fort Lauderdale (Miami) & got a terrible sunburn :p, sightseeing in Hollywood (even met an actor), swimming in the freezing pacific in Long Beach, made a Roadtrip with 2 frenchies and a german through California, Nevada and Arizona, tried surfing in Waikiki, went out in a gaybar in sydney, got lost in the bush around Wollongong, made a roadtrip in New Zealand with 3 parisians for 25 days on North and south island, drove a lot in left hand traffic in NZ and a bit in Australia (from Sydney to melbourne), got lost in the australian bush, drove along the Great Ocean Road, Climbed Mt. Kitadake (Japans 2nd highest mountain) for 3 days, saw the Gozan firefestival in Kyoto, met a friend 3 times in Japan, watched a baseball game in Koshien (and Arizona), visited the Tiananmen square - forbidden city in Beijing, the Terracotta warriors in Xian, climbed Hua Shan 1236m - on steps!, went along the great wall, got pick pocketed in Manila, joined a party with 200 CS´ers on a lonely beach in Zambales - jumped over the bon fire, stopped smoking in Hong Kong and tried Muay Thai there, celebrated Halloween in Macau, attended a Jazz festival and tried Capoeira there, traveled with a guy from luxembourg and a girl from france in Vietnam and Cambodia - slept on a boat in Halong Bay, visited the driest place in South east asia when it was raining :p, rented motorbikes and cruised around (in Vietnam and Thailand), made a boat tour in Mekong Delta and came to Cambodia by boat, drove a bicycle to the Temples of Angkor until my ass was hurting ^^, stayed in a school in siem reap via CS and met the pupils, got a root canal treatment in Bangkok and celebrated christmas there, had an amazing New Year in Laos with "selfmade" fireworks and tubing, stayed on a houseboat and a lonely island on Langkawi and explored the island by rental car, celebrated Chinese New Year in Malaysia :-D Never had a lonelyplanet or a guidebook! :p

Saw millions of Waterfalls, caves, beaches, spectacular Sunsets (few sunrises ^^), so many UNESCO world heritage sites and cities, beaches, jungles, glaciers, nationalparks, [got wasted quite a few times :p], learned counting and basic phrases in 7 languages - Thank you and Cheers in even more, tried delicious and "weird" food like insects, reptiles, dogblood, penis wine, exotic fruits and veggies, unidentifiable meat even had styrian Kernöl and Puntigamer beer!! Spent many days/nights in airports, busses, trains, airplanes, minivans, busstops... learned so many things by meeting different people and experiencing cultures, even half a song on 2 instruments :-D Read around 10 books (more than in the 24 years before ^^), wrote over 100 postcards, visited 14 countries, took 75GB(!!) worth of pictures and gained more than 500 facebook friends (need to sort out though :p) Had an uncountable variety of showers, like public toilets/pools, baths in freezing melting water, lakes, rivers, waterfalls, hot springs,... Had 6 SIM cards and 4 haircuts on 3 different continents ^^ Did a lot of hiking/mountaineering and Sightseeing whereever I went to, did camping for 1,5 months all together, got a scar from almost every single country I visited!! ^^ And the most important thing - I met incredibly awesome people, who I proudly call FRIENDS now <3 Words can´t describe how grateful I am for the opportunities and experiences mostly enabled by Couchsurfing!! :-D Even met 4 friends from Austria (in Mt.Evelyn, Macau and Hue) and about 30 austrians in total <3 This was just my first long term trip and it was indescribable, unforgettable, incredible, unique... ;-) Thanks a lot to everyone who participated and especially to my parents who manage the homebase :-* Life is a journey <3

WOW that got pretty long!! :o thaha :p

Teach, Learn, Share

I love to learn and share my knowledge and experience ;-) basically I wanna learn everything 😅 the things I'm pretty good at or I really enjoy doing will get more attention I guess...

It´s awesome to learn new things - would love to learn an instrument (but I'm a bit lazy) ^^ seems like we're learning something new almost every single day - just ask yourself what did I learn today and I'm quite certain that there's anything you learned 😉

What I Can Share with Hosts

Trying my best to be a good guest ;-) Sharing experience of my previous journey, beeing good company, supporting my host in any life situation, cooking (at least the basic stuff) :-D
love to have conversations about basically anything and getting to know new friends all over the place! 👌

And I always do the dishes, that´s kind of my thing ^^

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Australia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Laos, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Austria

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