Greg Malivuk

Current Mission: "Learn as much as I can from as many people and places as I can. Ideally, I will also be able to make a living somehow."

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United States
Massachusetts
Boston
Lat: 42.35833, Lon: -71.06028
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General Information

Greg Malivuk has been vouched for
VERIFIED MEMBER Identity Checked, Location Pending more info
Couch available	Coffee or a drink
CouchSurf requests replied to	100%
member since	August 16th, 2006
profile views	1036
age	27
gender	Male
membername	GMALIVUK
occupation	English Teacher
education	BAs in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Michigan, CELTA certificate to teach English
grew up in	Allegan, MI, USA
ethnicity	American (perhaps not an ethnicity, but you see my picture...)
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Languages

English^Expert
Spanish^Intermediate

Groups I Belong To

Michigan^2318:410
Why: I'll be back at home in Michigan October through December

Couch Information

Couch Available: Coffee or a drink
Preferred Gender: Any

I've recently moved to Boston, and am currently not living in a place very conducive to hosting people. But I would be more than happy to meet people who are here. My current job leaves me the afternoons pretty much completely free every day.

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MISSHIGHLANDS 27, Female Inverness, Scotland United Kingdom Friends since August 2006 "Met doing CELTA course in Mexico" Friendship Type: Friend	Héctor tobón y Hernández 59, Male Mexico City, Distrito Federal Mexico Friends since April 2007 "He visit my home during the visit of a couple of german friends." Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend
Julia Pelaez Avila 24, Female Hannover, Lower Saxony Germany Friends since April 2007 "We spend some time together in Mexico City while he was couch surfing with the boyfriend of the daughter of the friend me and my sister stayed with." Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend	Abraham Avellana 27, Male Mexico City, Distrito Federal Mexico Friends since April 2007 "Greg stayed in my couch for a week, interesting guy." Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend ⁸
Julia Jakovleva 24, Female Pliesovce, Zvolen Slovakia Friends since September 2006 "i met greg in a monkey hostel, campeche, mx" Friendship Type: Acquaintance	Michelle Laporte 27, Female Toronto, Ontario Canada Friends since May 2007 "Greg introduced me to couchsurfing!" Friendship Type: Friend I vouched for Greg Malivuk

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Drinking from a coconut in Palenque, July 30, 2007.
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Personal Description

Recently moved to Boston, MA, and would be happy to meet travelers and show them around a bit.

How I Participate in CS

So far I've mainly been participating by meeting with people coming to my city, since I have no couch of my own to offer. I hope to be able to offer my own place to travelers once I get a place the US in a few months, though.

CouchSurfing Experience

My only actual surfing experience was a week or so in DF last April. It was great fun, and I definitely plan to seek out other CS hosts next time I'm on the move.

Interests

travel (obviously), meeting new people, feminism, philosophy, human rights, and plenty of other stuff. I also enjoy collecting the phrase "I do not speak [language]" in as many languages as I can.

Philosophy

I think my philosophy is pretty well summarized by my current mission.

If you want to talk about the actual academic side of philosophy, I can probably do that to, but it'd be hard (and mostly pointless) to summarize all those views here.

Music, Movies, Books

I find some enjoyable aspect of most kinds of music, especially if whoever's producing it is clearly skilled. There are some styles here and there that I don't particularly like, but even with those I could probably come to change my mind if I had some understanding of why you like it. A Simple Plan, however, unless you listen to it for irony, sucks.

The fiction I most often choose to read for fun tends to be sci-fi, but some of the most worthwhile novels I've read are in other genres. With nonfiction, my tastes are about as wide-ranging as they are with music. It's not unusual for me to read a book on theoretical physics right before or after one on something like feminism or evolutionary psychology.

Types of People I enjoy

I find a great many people fascinating. That doesn't mean we'll necessarily get along, but if you know about or are good at something a bit out of the ordinary, we should at least be able to have an interesting conversation.

Also, you probably need at least a moderate streak of sarcasm in your own personality to get along very well with my sense of humor.

Teach, Learn, Share

"Uncopyrightable" is the longest commonly-used English word in which no letter is repeated. More importantly, New Zealand has the highest per-capita use of corrugated steel of any country in the world.

Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org Project

I think this is a wonderful idea. I haven't surfed with many people yet, but I hope to do more in the future. Certainly there's the issue of not being sure people are who they say they are, but that's what the verification and vouching systems are for. Besides, it's not like I know ahead of time who I'll be with when I pay to stay in a hostel.

Locations Traveled

TRAVELED: Australia, Guatemala, Mexico, New Zealand
LIVED: Mexico, United States

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From Adriana Huerta Viga
Merida, Mexico
^{Sep 4, 2007}

Positive

I met Greg a couple of nights while he traveled in Mérida and we had very nice time together. He's a smart and easy going person, I hope we can meet again.

From Julia Pelaez Avila
Hannover, Germany
^{Jun 26, 2007}

Positive

During the week me and my sister stayed in Mexico City we hung out quite a lot with Greg and Abraham, the guy he was couchsurfing with. Greg is an interesting person and once you touch upon a topic he likes to talk about you can have great conversations with him.

From Héctor tobón y Hernández
Mexico City, Mexico
^{May 22, 2007}

Positive

A man who obviusly wants to travel and he find the way for to do it.

From Abraham Avellana
Mexico City, Mexico
^{Apr 27, 2007}

Positive

Greg is a very interesting man. We share some likings, like linguistics, maths, phylosophy and music, so we had interesting conversations together. Funny time with this guy.

From Julia Jakovleva
Pliesovce, Slovakia
^{Sep 23, 2006}

Positive

i didn't have a chance to talk a lot to greg, because he had to leave to another city. but i can really tell that he is nice and friendly person and i would have enjoyed talking to him more if it was possible :)

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