Tommy Quist

Current Mission: Find some way to never stop travelling

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Finland
Uusimaa
Helsinki

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General Information

Tommy Quist is a CS Ambassador living in Helsinki!
Tommy Quist has been vouched for
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Couch available	Maybe
CouchSurf requests replied to	100%
member since	April 6th, 2007
profile views	10,429
age	26
birthday	27 August Everyone can see this.
gender	Male
membername	LINFORCER
occupation	Study
education	HAVO, now studying Computer Science
grew up in	Dordrecht, The Netherlands
ethnicity	Nederlands
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Languages

English^Expert
Dutch^Expert
Norwegian^Intermediate
German^Intermediate
Swedish^Intermediate
Danish^Beginner
French^Beginner

Groups I Belong To

Leiden^1046:4065 Why: Live here, host here	Turku last minute Couch request^124:182 Why: Need a couch
Norway^16703:6587 Why: Love Norway	Maastricht^1638:5220 Why: Moving here soon.
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Couch Information

Couch Available: Maybe
Preferred Gender: Any
Max Surfers Per Night: 3

Shared Sleeping Surface: No
Shared Room: Yes

We have a mattress and some stuff. If there is more than one person staying you will need to bring your own sleeping gear.

I am not hosting between now and mid-January as I will not be at home.

FAQ about my Couch (You may want to read this)

Q:What do you need to be my CouchSurfer?

A:1.Nothing*

* This is in fact a lie. You need a CouchSurfing account with some information about you and if possible one or more pictures

Q:Why did you lie back there?

A:Because, well, it's sort of true, you don't need to be any sort of age-group, gender, ethincity or anything else. You don't need to be interesting, you don't need to be interested in me. You don't need... wait, ok, you need clothes... I think you need a permit to run a nudist camp. So you need at least that to get through my house. But that's it! I promise!

Q:What's that bit about being interesting or interested, isn't CouchSurfing all about cultural exchange?

A:Yes! No! Yes!
That is to say, I think the general concensus is, it is. And I agree with that. CouchSurfing is about cultural exchange in the same way that cooking is about food.

Q:What?!

A:Okay, see here it is. Cooking is about food, but er.. it's also about eating and... well That's a bad analogy but you see er...

Q:Would you bloody well GET ON WITH IT?

A:Yes, ok so here's the deal, friend. At my place, you are not a guest. You are at home.

Q:Does that mean I get to prance around naked?

A:Now, we've already dealt with nudist issues. What I'm saying is: you don't owe me anything. Most CouchSurfers feel that they have an obligation to their hosts to share with them wonderful stories and all that mumbojumbo.

Q:But what if I'm BORING?!

A:Would you stop interupting me? This is exactly the point I'm trying to make. Maybe you're boring. Maybe you're just stopping here for one night on the way to Beijing and you have to get up in the morning to catch the next train/bus/hitchhike/spaceshuttle/interdimensional doorway, and the last thing you can be bothered with is telling some earthling all about the time Zoth overthrew your ancestors' Martian empire, nor do you want to hear is his trite little stories about when the local windmill was built. Maybe you just fail at making conversation with people who aren't roundbreasted young women or tall bronzed men, rippling with muscles.
Does this mean you should be denied a place to sleep?

Q:Well, Does it?

A:Absolutely not.

Q:But what if I do want to tell you my super awesome stories and am doing this because I'm wanting to make friends for life?

A:Then if you're staying long enough, and you don't come when I have a lot of work to do (ha, me, work?) then there's a good chance at that aswell. But the thing of it is, it's not mandatory.

Q:What if I didn't feel like reading all of that and I skipped straight to this?

A:If you suffered a good old case of tl;dr (too long;didn't read) here it is in a nutshell.

If you stay here, you don't owe me anything, and I don't owe you anything, any exchanges, cultural or otherwise are completely optional, from both sides.

Q:Do you know this isn't actually an FAQ unless these Q uestions were A sked F requently?

A:I asked myself them, and I determine what passes for "frequent" so there, now, go write up your CouchSurf requests, you smartass.

Skype : linforcer
Phone :0659035976
e-mail/google chat/google plus: linforcer@gmail.com

I live smackdab in the center on the main shopping street

I don't smoke (except a hookah sometimes), smoking is allowed in the common room, balcony, just not in my room. Weed is ok. Alcohol is ok, as long as you don't get super drunk and do something too stupid as a result (like break stuff).

I like having people over for about a week, but my girlfriend, whom I live with is more into a few days.

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Untung Haryono 28, Male Dordrecht, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since September 2003 "Best friend" Friendship Type: Best Friend ⁴	Christin Pamela Peevor 24, Female Horten, Vestfold Norway Friends since December 2006 "Language exchange site" Friendship Type: Best Friend ³⁰⁺ ³⁰⁺ ²³
Tara Arntsen 26, Female Langfang, Hebei China Friends since July 2008 "Rotterdam meetings & Sinterklaas" Friendship Type: Good Friend I vouched for Tommy Quist ²⁰ ¹ ⁷	Alexandra and Vincent Ramsey 20, Several people Delft, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since October 2010 "Was my host, now we host." Friendship Type: Close Friend
Carel Evertse 29, Male Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland Netherlands Friends since September 2009 "Tommy had me at hallo..." Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend	Peter Soos 23, Male Parasznya, Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen Hungary Friends since September 2010 "Erasmus Leiden" Friendship Type: Close Friend ³⁰⁺
Natália Nunes 26, Female Nilopolis, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Friends since September 2008 "Met Tommy in a language exchange site" Friendship Type: Good Friend ⁵ ²	Anna Masojidkova 24, Female Decin, Usti nad Labem Region Czech Republic Friends since April 2009 "couchsurfing" Friendship Type: CouchSurfing Friend ⁶ ³
Malka Mendel 29, Female Antwerp, Antwerp Belgium Friends since June 2011 "From other space." Friendship Type: Good Friend ² ²	Duncan McCardel 24, Male Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees France Friends since January 2011 "Surfed at Tommy's" Friendship Type: Good Friend I vouched for Tommy Quist ⁷ ⁷
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Personal Description

Former Computer Science student. Lover of Norway, all sorts of tea, and spicy food. I used to work at Hogeschool Rotterdam (a "University of Applied Sciences") where I used to give extra classes in the programming courses to firstyear students.
I also used study Computer Science here. Right now I do different jobs every now and then.

How I Participate in CS

I host whenever I can. I used to organize meetings in Leiden ( I might again in future) , meet CouchSurfers around the country. I help out at the big meetings and take part in some overall organizational stuff. I promote Couchsurfing, The Netherlands and Leiden wherever I go.

About me as an ambassador:
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What does being an ambassador mean for me?

It means I try to represent CouchSurfing to the best of my ability wherever I go. I try to be open to all ideas, and share as many of mine as possible. I try to help others do the same.

What does being an ambassador NOT mean to me?
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Politics, status, easier couches

CouchSurfing Experience

Hey guys, be sure to check out my Couchsurfing blog!! at http://surferofcouches.blogspot.com (not updated anymore, but still gives a good idea of my personality as a couchsurfer from past experiences)

I stopped counting, but
Over 200 surfers served
Hosted by over 100 people

Interests

Computers, Norway, Philosophy, Languages

Philosophy

Nihilism/Absurdism

Music, Movies, Books

Music: See last.fm user linforcer.
Movies: Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo movies rule, so does the dogville trilogy and about anything in the arthouse section.

Types of People I enjoy

Smart people, People who don't bullshit

Teach, Learn, Share

Anything regarding computers. languages/linguistics. Basic Philosophy.

One Amazing Thing I've Seen or Done

Hitchhiking through Europe and the middle east, among others onto aStenaline Ferry.

Opinion on the CouchSurfing.org Project

I'm so happy CouchSurfing exists. It's made life so much more interesting. I'm basically connecting to the global community, AND my local community in a very real way that I'd never been able to do without the help of CouchSurfing!

Locations Traveled

TRAVELED: Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine
LIVED: Netherlands
WANTS TO GO: Indonesia, Russia, Taiwan, United States

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References (218)

218Positive
0Neutral
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89From Surfers
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From Valentina Mellone
L'Aquila, Italy
^{Dec 4, 2011}

Positive

Tommy is a very interesting person. His place is very open house, free and international point of meetings. I had good time in his house....and if you like to play smart cards games, you can really find someone to play with passion! Thanks tommy to host me and my friends...
;)

From Nils LeTigre
Toulouse, France
^{Sep 29, 2011}

Positive

I like Tommy because he is kind and funny and his house is always full of beautiful girl couchsurfers for me to cuddle :)

He also makes very good pseudo-Mexican food!

From WOUAPI
Brussels, Belgium
^{Sep 4, 2011}

Positive

Thanks a lot Tommy for hosting me and offering to do some fun stuff in Leiden, sorry I was so tired!
Tommy is a talkative and nice person who knows everything about CouchSurfing and is willing to show you around.

From Michele Martinelli
Rome, Italy
^{Aug 30, 2011}

Positive

just some words to say thank you to Tommy. My experience was great, also if I was SO tired when I went to his place. We passed a relaxing and nice afternoon. see you next time man ;)

From STEFFI_LUNIAK
Amman, Jordan
^{Aug 27, 2011}

Positive

i guess tommys profile will give you a good idea about who and how he is: he and pirianna walked into my place and i had the feeling there was a party going on - it was nice to have them around and every thing else but boring, next time you pass by amman let me know ;)

From Guy Douvdevany
Jerusalem, Israel
^{Aug 18, 2011}

Positive

Tommy and Jordan are couchsurfers by nature. Always people in their place, always intersting. Tommy is a realy funny guy and knows a lot about travelling.
Thanks man!

From Alexandra and Vincent Ramsey
Delft, Netherlands
^{Aug 13, 2011}

Positive

Tommy is crazy, but in a good way. Despite my first impression on him (wild and crazy) we have become amazing friends and are about to get an apartment together so we can continue to host lots of people!

ahem... this is awesome!!

From Sameer Patil
Irvine, United States
^{Aug 7, 2011}

Positive

If you don't believe that money grows on trees, you need to surf at Tommy's place. Thanks man for showing me the best ice cream in Leiden, for introducing me to hitchhiking, for letting me sleep however long I wanted, for playing video games... Hope you are taking good care of the jacket I left behind for you :-)

From Laurent ABATUCI
Montpellier, France
^{Jul 31, 2011}

Positive

My FIRST CS AMBASSADOR :) I was so happy to host Tommy and the 3 friends travelling with him. Tommy is pure Energy, always speaking, laughing, up for crazy stuff, having fun non stop. In a nutshell :) the best definition for Tommy is that he is an AmBadAssor ( Awesome, cool, exellent or Concerning attitudes and/or behavior that is considered admirable) Feel free to come back in MontyP.

From MARIANNE DRAPEAU
Kamouraska, Canada
^{Jul 21, 2011}

Positive

I will never forget the bubbles!!!! :) Extraordinary guy whit his lovely Pirianna girlfriend !!!! People like them just keep the world going in the right way.... broken the conventional mould to live, to travel, to be !!!! :) Mention spéciale pour Jordan qui fût avec sa tendre moitié, un hôte aussi extraordinaire que son compatriote hollandais !!!! Merci Messieurs !!! Dank je wel !!!!

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