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Overview

  • 7 references
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning French
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2014
  • Journalist. Also the crazy glue that holds my friends and...
  • PhD Candidate at City, University of London
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Life is to be lived! Currently enjoying my time in London and my PhD study.

ABOUT ME

Adventurous, easy going and generally up for anything fun :)

PHILOSOPHY

Nosce Te Ipsum - Know Thyself
True Grit.
Finish Strong.
One love.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

If I can host I will. If not, I'll buy the drinks or show surfers around!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I joined this community a few years ago and have met up with some great people in SA. I've also met up with some really fun surfers during Carnival time in my home country of Trinidad.

Interests

Hiking, rappelling, watersports, reading, writing, family and volunteer work.

  • writing
  • reading
  • volunteer work
  • hiking
  • business
  • communications
  • journalism
  • volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Tool, APC, Incubus, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Bush, Florence and the Machine, Mudvayne, Eartha Kitt, Manu Chao, Indila, Buika, Bebe, Rodriguez, Bach, Beethoven, Yann Tiersen, Javier Navarrete - to name a few.

Movies: Poulet aux prunes, Into the Wild, Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream, Manakamana, Citizen Kane, Pan's Labyrinth, Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

Authors: Blake, Borges, Marquez, Rushdie, Allende, Roy, Dickens, Sartre, Austen, Fitch, Atwood, Neruda, Keats, Rankin, Camus, Lee, Wyndham, Orwell, Steinbeck, London, Dostoyevsky - to name a few.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen Angel falls which was an amazing trip but what I felt was even more amazing was the climb to the Roraima Tepuy in Venezuela. It's an entirely different world up there. Really quite amazing.
I've also dived to see the largest brain coral in the Western Hemisphere in Tobago.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've hosted journalism/media workshops.
I love language so if you want to learn, ask away.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can cook Caribbean food and teach salsa dancing :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Barbados, Canada, Colombia, France, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Panama, Peru, Saint Lucia, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Panama, United Kingdom, Venezuela

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