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Overview

  • 48 references 17 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Welsh; learning French, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2005
  • I work for a homelessness charity, helping people change ...
  • Hearing people's stories, reading anything I can get my h...
  • From Machynlleth (near Aberystwyth) Wales
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

laugh like a 4 year old

ABOUT ME

I like to have a good time. A perfect scenario for me would be just chilling outside with good friends. Of course, as a couchsurfer I like to discover new places and things. By the way if I stay at your place I will do the washing up!

PHILOSOPHY

We are all part of a larger entity called humanity and have a moral obligation to learn as much as we can about ourselves and each other so that we can truly love, which is my aim in life. Everyone deserves and needs to be loved, to feel loved and to give love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've couchsurfed and couch-hosted and couch-meetinged in various places. I've found couchsurfing and couchsurfers so so helpful in making me feel welcome in new places. My couchsurfing experiences have been overwhelmingly positive. I LOVE IT!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

For me couchsurfing is all about making personal connections with people; a cultural exchange of a very real kind.
While travelling it helps you see a new place from the perspective of people who live there, instead of the rather removed perspective of a tourist who simply sees the sights without talking to many people. I love hosting people who see couchsurfing as being as much about people as places.

Interests

people, places, food, drink, music, felt pens...

  • dining
  • drinking
  • traveling
  • music

Music, Movies, and Books

Live music is lovely. I like to dance to it.

Books are solid thoughts and I'm hungry for all of them - there are always piles of books around my bed. I love anything thought-provoking. Non-fiction seems to dominate my reading material, but I'm not sure what that means. I try to keep my reading material net spread wide.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The most amazing thing I've seen is the way people develop through the course of their lives.

Thailand was amazing, especially songcrahn- a 3 day water fight! Life is amazing, but going back to that slug... it had the pattern of a tiger on its skin and when i poked it HUGE antennae came out ot its head. That was one cool slug.

Teach, Learn, Share

I want to learn about the way other people live and think. What can i teach? Umm... how to appreciate a slug?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Laos, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium, Italy, United Kingdom

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