Burning Houses
Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Coush Surfing:
I met him online through the Couch Surfing service. He was a fifty-year old man living alone in apartment close enough to the city to walk there. I stayed with him for three nights and all he asked me in return is to inform him about the culture and the country I came from!
It might be awkward to knock at some stranger’s house and sleep at their couch, but the amount of experience I saw coming through this experience overcame all my fears and made me strong enough to do it. It was fun!!
Sexuality in Amsterdam:
I was shocked about how open the people were about their sexuality. The tour guide tried to explain how sexuality is viewed as a human desire that need to be fulfilled the same way hunger need to be fulfilled. I strongly disagreed with him and that didn’t make him very happy. My argument was “I have the desire to burn your house, shall I do it because I need to fulfill my desires the same way I fulfill hunger?” He was like “well… let’s talk about some history!”
you terrorist! ;p as for your couch surfing experience, will you host people in your apartment to sleep on your couch?
Comment on July 15, 2008 @ 9:25 pm
I’ve never heard about this couchsurfing thing , i checked the website , its cool idea i guess im gonna try it someday
Comment on July 16, 2008 @ 12:11 am
Purg, Yes.. I will if I wasn’t too busy with school and you’re welcome anytime =)
Khaled, Its an aweosme idea.. I used it to save some money and meet a lot of interesting people. I tottaly recommend trying it, hosting and surfing..
Comment on July 16, 2008 @ 12:20 am
R u serious ,,,,U cant just trust any1 and sleep at their place …what if he’s a psycho :-S ….?
Comment on July 17, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
Is that safe ?
Comment on July 17, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
Dalalism, There is a risk on everthing. There is a risk worth taking and this is one of those risks. Nothing is safe, I personally had a couple bad experiances that I will talk about in another post, but I had some awesome experiances as well!
Comment on July 17, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
Wow couchsurfing is an amazing concept..but I would be reluctant…
It would be very interesting to read about your experience…maybe you could publish it in one of the local newspapers
Comment on July 21, 2008 @ 12:37 pm
jewaira. Indeed it an amazing experience. However I think the blog-o-sphere audience would be more interested on hearing those stories than the the newspapers audience. I’ll share some of the interesting stories I had in the blog, hope you would like them =)
Comment on July 31, 2008 @ 4:47 am