CURRENT MISSION

Work in progress.

ABOUT ME

My name is Jai, I am 28 year old and a lover of life. I'm easy going and enjoy meeting new people. I have a fiancée of almost 3 years. I enjoy laughing, but be warned, I don't hold back on laugh volume. I love music, I play drums whenever I can and am trying to learn some songs on guitar. I like to dance like no one is looking despite it almost never being the case. And boardgames. I am an avid and slightly competitive boardgamer. I have been learning a bunch of new skills lately and hope to continue honing those skills in the future. I love learning new languages (it's a bit hard as an Aussie sometimes), I hope to pick up quite a bit in the near future. When traveling I walk/hike a lot. I think I generally come back from holidays fitter than I was when I left. I and some housemates hosted several couchsurfers during a couple of years while I was at university but I haven't had the opportunity to host much since then. Hopefully it will be my turn to surf now as I plan on spending a year or so travelling Europe and Africa! I will be travelling with my fiancée (the girl with the red hair in some of my photos). Megan (her name) is an environmental engineer and has a passion for sustainability and environmentalism. Loves reading and listening to folk /folk pop/ folk rock. Anything folky really. She is polite and fun loving, perhaps a little more reserved than I am (however that's a high bar to jump over to begin with). We hope to meet many new lovely people during our travels! Please host us!

PHILOSOPHY

Get as much out of life while i still can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I heard about this from friends, but my housemates are the people who inspired me to sign up. After having hosted several couchsurfers I now hope to see the other side of the coin and am trying surfing for the first time

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am proud to say I now have hosted many couchsurfers with varying degrees of input. Sometimes my housemates invited someone to stay and I barely saw them, sometimes I invited someone to stay and entertained them for their whole stay. Once I invited someone to surf for a while when I met them personally while travelling through Laos and some of the people I have hosted have even become life long friends.

Interests

I love video games and languages, I hope to learn more in my years to come, especially Thai. I love music, playing and listening. I tried picking up rockclimbing, it was fun but I haven't kept it up since. I have been practising salsa and aikido for about a year. Not sure what to pick up next, maybe archery? When traveling, I often spend a lot of time walking/hiking, or as we in Australia call it, bushwalking. And lastly boardgames. Love, love, love boardgames.

• wine
• beer
• anime
• video games
• board games
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• languages
• manga
• card games
• manhwa

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: martial arts films, actions and comedies are my favourites, but am generally happy to watch anything.
Music: Love it, appreciate most of it but alternative rock is where my heart lies.
Books: Don't read as often as i should, but i do enjoy fantasy books. Unless you count manga/manhwa, in which case I read a ton

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I jumped out of a plane! With a parachute and an experienced instructor, but still.

Teach, Learn, Share

I have several years of practical, living out of home knowledge, I know a small variety of card/party games, other than that, I play good djembe, and I'm sure there's more, I suppose it depends on what you want to learn.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I love cooking North-eastern Thai food, that's my usual go to, but I have a variety of other skills to share with those who are interested.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Kosovo, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda, Vatican City State, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, England, Scotland, Thailand, Wales