CURRENT MISSION

Learning how to be a parent for the first time and loving the new life adventure! Very excited to take my daughter Naia on her first travels and meet wonderful people all over the world

ABOUT ME

I am a filmmaker from London who loves to travel, write, listen to music, discover new cultures, meet interesting people and dance all night.

PHILOSOPHY

Listen, share your skills, contribute.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Have hosted in London and Osaka and have surfed all over Asia and Europe.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Have met some amazing people all over the world through couchsurfing and love introducing people to where I am living and being shown the best places to go in a foreign city. Will hopefully continue to use this amazing site all around the African continent.

Interests

• poetry
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• dancing
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• music

Music, Movies, and Books

Selection of fav movies:

Lost Highway, La Haine, Fear and Loathing, Punishment Park, Festen, Dogville, Zatoichi, Amerros Perros, Requiem for a Dream, Coffee and Cigarettes, Talk to Her, The Man Who Wasn't There, Being John Malcovich, Battle Royale, Reservoir Dogs, Easy Rider, Basquiat, Buffalo 66, Big Lebowski, Fahrenheit 451, Vertigo, Lolita, Ghostdog: Way of the Samurai, Clockwork Orange, Volver, Babel, The Lives of Others, Double Indemnity, The Devils, Diving Bell and The Butterfly

Music:

Love my dance music especially dubstep, dnb, minimal and breakbeat. Also love bands like the roots, gogol bordelo, blackstar, bedoin soundclash, radiohead, rage against the machine, Adam Freeland, The Freestylers, Pendulum, dj shadow (except The Outsider), Madlib, J5, Ben Harper, Roots Manuva, Chilles, Audioslave, Ray Charles, Charlie Mingus, Lee Scratch Perry, James Brown R.I.P, KRS-One, De La Soul, King Tubby, Johnny Cash, Massive Attack, Portishead, DJ Krush, Percee P, Grandmaster Flash, Funkadelic, Tracy Chapman, Blockhead, Lyrics Born, Faithless, Nitin Sawney, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Ratatat, Bonobo

Books:

The Trial, 1984, Alice in Wonderland, The Revolution of Everyday Life, Disgrace, One Hundred Years of Solitide, Collected works of Edgar Allan Poe, In Cold Blood, No Logo, The Soccer War, Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, anything by Haruki Murakami!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

So many to choose from but Iguazu falls just blew me away. Living in japan was a great experience too.

Teach, Learn, Share

Can help teach manual photography, filmmaking etc, share music, books, writing...anything that comes from the soul!

What I Can Share with Hosts

English Teaching
Filmmaking
Photography
Writing
Stories

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, India, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, United Kingdom

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