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Overview

  • 6 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Arabic (Morocco), French, Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Energy Auditor, Guitar teacher, Full time learner
  • Diploma in Architecture
  • From Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to put my feet in every ocean, to greet the people stagnant and in motion. To forget my wealth and find my worth, to lose my mind and discover my soul

ABOUT ME

I am a one man rubber band. Music occupies a great deal of my life. If I am not helping people reduce there energy consumption I am most likely in a park strumming a guitar or uke. Arts of any form interest me, I love to read, write and draw. A nice patch of grass and the sun is all I need

PHILOSOPHY

rethink.

Never regret the things you have done, you can only regret the things you have not

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I would like to consider myself an expert on what Kitchener Waterloo has too offer and am an excellent guide on what to do and see in a short visit. More importantly I can advise somebody on what tourist traps not to get sucked into.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

always amazing. I have met so many great people

Interests

life, love and arts.
books, writing and music.
food, people and the outdoors.

  • arts
  • writing
  • books
  • dining
  • partying
  • drawing
  • music
  • guitar
  • outdoor activities
  • physics
  • tourism
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Post Office by Charles Bukowski
Any and all Steinbeck or Vonnegut

Life aquatic by Wes Anderson
Barfly by F. Ford Coppola
O brother where art Thou by the Cohen Brothers
Jackie Brown by Quentin Tarantino

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Fished the Atlantic, swam in the pacific, snorkeled in the gulf of Mexico. Threw snowballs in Morroco. I have climbed waterfalls in Jamaica and drank in Al Cappones Cuban hideout. I met the love of my life my home town.

Teach, Learn, Share

In two days I can show you an organic micro-green grow house, take you down on a river adventure, buy farm raised eggs from Mennonites living off the land. We can volunteer at our local soup kitchen, check out the art galleries, gaze at the only Quantum Physics Institution in Canada and the birthplace of the blackberry. When our legs are wearing we can enjoy a blossoming music scene at one of many fine establishments some right on the water or party in the 200 year old factory I call my creative space.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Food, fun, conversation and life. Also a lot of music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Haiti, Hungary, Jamaica, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Peru, Puerto Rico, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Denmark, Morocco

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