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Overview

  • 10 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning German, Spanish
  • 37, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • English teacher
  • Degree in English and Creative Writing
  • From London, England, United Kingdom
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To set my new life up in Panama City!

ABOUT ME

Love to meet people, love to talk, love to write

PHILOSOPHY

Community comes before the Individual. No point getting offended, just laugh.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have had people on my couch when I had my own house, and I have surfed others. I have also been on the Couchsurfing Pub Quiz in Portsmouth and hope to get involved in the Panama City group.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Entirely positive!

Interests

Writing, Talking, Films, Dance Music, Socialising, Drinking coffee, Cooking, Debating, Learning, and of course the occasional party!

  • writing
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • coffee
  • partying
  • drinking
  • pub crawls
  • movies
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • dance music
  • tourism
  • beaches
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: 3:10 to Juma, Machuca, Das Experiment, The Edukators, anything by Almodovar, Nil by Mouth, All or Nothing, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, The Machinist, Bowling for Columbine, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Looking for Eric, Catfish

Books: The Quiet American by Graham Greene, The Picture of Dorien Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Rum Diaries by Hunter S Thompson, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Did my dissertation on Crash by J G Ballard but not gonna say I enjoyed that book.

Music: Anything i can dance to, Jeff Buckley, Janis Joplin, David Bowie, Rage Against the Machine, Manu Chao, Gogol Bordello, Gipsy CZ, Jamiroquai, Florence and the Machine, A*skillz

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I guess the two things I am most proud of that are travel related are living for a month in Berlin writing a travel guide, and coming to Chile to work for a newspaper for 6 weeks.

Most amazing things I've seen? The Andes from the plane to Chile, the Rocky Mountains in Canada, Sarajevo - just as a whole, the beach in Samos, Greece.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Macedonia, Panama, Peru, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Panama, United Kingdom

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