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Overview

  • 38 references 24 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 34, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Entrepenur
  • Social work
  • From Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

A new family, raising our kids on a small acreage, with animals and adventures. Happy to share our travel experiences and our community with you and learn from you.

ABOUT ME

I am always learning, trying to make the most out of the short time on earth as I can. love to travel, it teaches me about the world, motivates me to do things, have a better understanding of others

PHILOSOPHY

Follow your God's plan for your life even when I don't understand. Take risks and be uncomfortable, that's when life starts.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I surf, and host and go to meet ups!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Everywhere I have traveled over the past 14 years I have used couch surfing! Its been great, met great people, and learned a lot! If you host me, I promise that some how someday I will find a way to repay you. I really really respect couchsurfing hosts who open their hearts and world to me as it is such an awesome things to do. I try to host as much as possible when I am at home, although unfortunately I haven't had a lot of opportunity to due to roomates/ lack of room and a stable place to live. I really want to make a point of hosting one traveler a month once I return home and have my own place for the first time starting in the new year:)

Interests

volunteering with youth
Sports
Meditation
traveling
food
comedy/ improv
reading
outdoors
Politics
hockey
soccer
skiing

  • singing
  • dancing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • partying
  • politics
  • reading
  • traveling
  • blogging
  • karaoke
  • outdoor activities
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • sports
  • social work
  • volunteering
  • parks
  • entrepeneurship

Music, Movies, and Books

The fountain Head
The bible
The Alchemist
Inspiring biographies
Think and grow rich

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I lived in Grise Fiord the most northern permanent community in the world where I worked as a social worker for three months. I got to see polar bears, hunt for seals, snowmobile and experience life in an extreme setting with wonderful people.

Teach, Learn, Share

This is my travel blog: http://ciaranfree.blogspot.ca/ but hasnt been updated in years

What I want to learn:

If I am asking you to host me it isn't a money thing, I don't travel just to sight see. Couch surfing is a great tool, as it has allowed me to connect with so many people around the world and learn about people, cultures, and allowed me to see things I wouldn't know how to otherwise see. I am asking you to host me because I am genuinely interested in meeting you and sharing a bit of our time on earth together to have a great time and become a better person because of it.

What I Can Share with Hosts

What I can teach/ share you that I have found popular from previous surfers:

1- Cooking Western food
2- Going on adrenaline adventures from theme parks to hikes to anything in between
3- How to travel to different parts of the world the right way (I have been to a lot of places)
4- I love any type of active stuff, and I can teach you if you want.

5- I get a lot of good feedback from other countries that I am a funny "CRAZY" guy and that I am very different from other people in that I have these crazy ideas and things I want to see and do while traveling. My favorite two things I did while couch surfing:
### Bought a big pig for a slum area in Manilla and me and my hosts and the locals had a huge feast and party with everyone.
###Drove with my host around Jakarta by scooter through the biggest rush hour in the world and destressed twice by going and singing Karaoke in a private room, before this I never sang, and now i love it!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Botswana, Cambodia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Namibia, Netherlands, Norway, Philippines, Romania, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada

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