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  • Fluent in Danish, English; learning German, Norwegian, Swedish
  • 42, Male
  • Member since 2013
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  • From 6980 Tim, Denmark
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About Me

ABOUT ME

I'm a guy born in 1981 in a small city in Denmark. I spent most my childhood on anything with a motor, mostly motocross until I had a bad crash that took a few years to recover from.

I got my diploma from Technical gymnasium in 2001, and after that I started a Net-Cafe with a friend. I spent three years running the Net-Cafe but then grew tired of the endless hours and the little profit from it.

After my adventure as a young guy being self employed I decided it was time to start over. I started as a factory worker in the company I'm currently employed. After 1½ years I was offered to move to Orangetown, NJ, USA, to help set up a new factory in the US. I spent eight good months there with my Mustang and several weekends in New York and Atlantic City. When we were comfortable with the factory, I went back to Denmark to assist in designing and drawing new kits for our customers.

In April 2010 I moved to Zhuozhou, Hebei, China, to set up a new factory here, we had imagined it would be a maximum of 3-6 months and then it would be running, but now after 3 years I can see that is not going to happen :)

Everyday there is new things to do, and people to remind how we want the factory to run. And my support with designing kits and programming CNC/PLC's is something I don't see stopping any time soon. So basically I'm stuck in a City where no one speaks English and I have given up learning Chines :)

I like to meet people from all over the world, I'm very interested in culture and generally a happy guy. I'm always working hard on getting my "smiling wrinkles".

PHILOSOPHY

Life is what you make of it, so make the best of it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm new to CS, so I have no experience. It was introduced to me very recently, but I'm sure I'll catch up. It is a great tool to have a little social life where I am now, but also to offer my couch when I can, CS seems to be a great idea.

Interests

Where I live now, my main interest is computers, there is really nothing else to do here. I spend some of my time learning 3D modelling, but honestly, it normally ends up with me playing WoW or HoN with my friends in Denmark. It's one if the few things that keeps me from going insane from living in this desolate place. :)

The other thing is cooking, I spend a lot of time playing with all the great Chinese ingredients and putting it together, I can easily spend 3 hours an evening to listen to radio an cooking.

When I'm in Denmark I enjoy golf, I love a round of golf with my friends, it calms me down, and a cold beer, a good walk, that's always nice :)

And of cause there is my motorbike, I have a Suzuki GXF750 in Denmark, but rarely get to ride it since I spend all my time in China. But it is on my to-do list every time I'm home and the weather allows it :)

  • culture
  • cooking
  • beer
  • running
  • socializing
  • drawing
  • golf

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