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Overview

  • 18 references 14 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French, Hungarian, Latin
  • 77, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • teacher, editor
  • PhD
  • From Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Looking at the list of Things I Have Always Said I Would Do One Day and saying, If not now, when?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try to get the local CSers weekly meeting wherever I am. ... CS is a great ideal, and i try to convince people to try it out.

Interests

movies
languages
reading fiction
reading non-fiction
male-female relations

  • languages
  • tourism

Music, Movies, and Books

any good music; serious literature, also crime fiction, romance; linguistics; films, esp. foreign

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

At school, Year 3, I came second place in the egg-and-spoon race
I have descended to the centre of the Great Pyramid of Egypt
Spent 60th birthday in the Borneo rainforest
Won a prize for a thesis on the Three Wise Men

Teach, Learn, Share

languages old (esp. Latin) and new, reading manuscripts, literature, films, life.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Getting round Sydney, info on local pubs, shopping and eateries

Countries I’ve Visited

Taiwan, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Germany, Hungary

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