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  • 19 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French, Spanish; learning Arabic, German, Hebrew (modern), Italian, Portuguese
  • 63, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • Health Coach
  • Doctorate of Medicine, M.D.
  • From Wichita, KS, USA
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About Me

ABOUT ME

Enjoying learning... Learned French the last couple of years by listening to a lot !
This is called natural learning.
We learn our mother tongue in this way.
It works.
We listen.
By listening, we learn the words spoken by our Mothers and others.
By listening, we learn the "rules" of grammar.

When able, we repeat.
And Voilà, we almost all learn to speak our language.

I'm starting a blog to increase awareness of the great superiority of Natural Learning, because it's just too painful to think of all the millions of students around the world today studying boring word lists and impossibly boring rules of grammar, when they could be learning 10 - 30 times faster while enjoying beautiful stories, poems and songs!

If anyone has experience with Blogging, Please feel free to offer suggestions !

Love good conversations... to hear other people's thoughts.

Interested also in : Holistic Medicine... Organics : (Farming... Gardening... Clothing... Housing... in many areas of our life and for many reasons...
We've got to get back to the Garden !)...
Solar... Green Building... natural materials... primary technologies... Back-to-the-Land living... ;

Etymology, Philosophy;
All the Sciences ! ;

Research, Writing and Photography ;

Liberty and how to regain/retain it.... Geopolitics... philosophy and history of politics and economics
used to be disinterested in politics... but now see it as a biologic phenomenon... and am completely fascinated !

Our family lived in Uruguay recently.
Have been looking for good places abroad ... love especially the "Southern Cone" Countries (Argentina... Uruguay... Chile)

(Anyone have other suggestions ? )

Latest published article was :
"Investing in Agricultural Land in Uruguay"...
(see article at : http://www.olauruguay.com/Issue32a.html and
http://www.olauruguay.com/Issue33a.html

PHILOSOPHY

Love... Be thankful.... Believe every instant matters.... more.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have couch... will travel.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE
Love Hosting... Love Traveling.
Have hosted many awesome travelers... all good experiences... hope travel more soon.

Interests

The whole World... really almost everything...
might be more detailed later.

  • writing
  • poetry
  • photography
  • tango
  • wine
  • traveling
  • blogging
  • trail running
  • biology
  • etymology
  • geography
  • geopolitics
  • languages
  • logic
  • medicine
  • adventure travel
  • wine tourism
  • trekking
  • naturaleza
  • deep conversations
  • love
  • meeting new people
  • organic gardening
  • compassion
  • long walks
  • good conversation
  • botanical gardens
  • world history
  • compartir experiencias
  • natural medicine
  • philosophie
  • physiology
  • nature walks
  • good beer
  • partager
  • behavioral economics
  • philosophy of science
  • reason
  • bhuddism

Music, Movies, and Books

Bhagavad gita
Tao Te Ching
As A Man Thinketh
Atlas Shrugged
Le Petite Prince
El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote De La Mancha
The Four Agreements
L'Homme et la Mer
L'Albatros
Rumi
Le pouvoir de la pensee positive
None Dare Call It Conspiracy
The Human Zoo (Biology)

Writings of :
Jefferson (Liberty... Free-Market Economics... more),
Thomas Paine,
Ben Franklin,
Ludwig von Mises (Free-Market Economics,
Ayn Rand (Free-Market Economics),
Eustace Mullins

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Saw a little tiny part of the universe.... that was awesome....
Hope to see a lot more !

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach sciences especially Life sciences... Biology , Medicine / Health Sciences... anatomy, physiology, microbiology, statics , dynamics...
Languages... Spanish... French and Italian...
Economics (Free - market)
geography... others

What I Can Share with Hosts

Would be glad to help in most any way.
One of the first phrases I learn in every language is :
Can I help you with anything?
As you might imagine, this has led to many good experiences with people around the world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ecuador, United States, Uruguay

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