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Overview

  • 27 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Afrikaans, Italian
  • 36, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • English teacher
  • No education listed
  • From Cape Town
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To experience, taste and learn about the many different aspects of this life

ABOUT ME

I like talking and laughing and being silly, running around, dancing under the stars and standing on my head. I also like reading and having quiet conversations and listening to and playing quiet music and sleeping.

PHILOSOPHY

why do i live my life? well because i have to, i don't see many other options.

And the sun shines and i get to go to the beach and then there's the moment when you hear some music that touches you and suddenly it all makes sense.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I first couchsurfed on my 19th birthday in Colorado with my crazy kiwi friend. It was fantastic. A lovely guy took care of us, told us about his town and we said goodbye with great gratitude.

I later joined couchsurfing and my first couchsurfer tried to convert me to his religion on my own couch. Not deterred i later hosted a fantastic Belgian who had every attitude one dreams of in a house guest. Up for fun and also up to hang out on his own.

Since then I've made friends in cities through couchsurfing, had some good drinks and good laughs with open beautiful people. and most of the time when i meet someone i really connect with in the wanderings of my life i realize that they are, already, a couchcurfer. (there's something about this thing...)

Interests

Music. Listening, playing, dancing, comforting me on long lonely bus rides...
I now have a ukelele which is my happy Korean best friend!
Squash, Capoeira, swimming, hiking CLIMBING
Reading, writing
the beach!

  • writing
  • dancing
  • capoeira
  • running
  • drinking
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • hiking
  • rock climbing
  • racquetball
  • swimming
  • religion
  • beaches
  • squash

Music, Movies, and Books

Ah. Sufjan Stevens, Beiruit, Magnetic fields, Noah and the Whale, Mum, the Cat Empire, Andrew Bird, Andy McKee,Belle and Sebastien, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Bon VIer, Elbow, Felix Laband, Fionn Regan, Xavier Rudd, Simon and Garfunkel, the Beatles (this is impossible, dunno why i['m trying to write this...)

Books- ah so many

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

ONE?
oh dear.
no that is too little, there is so much and so much more and today is today and that is an amazing thing i have seen... and tomorrow will thus be tomorrow.

Teach, Learn, Share

Through traveling, above all, i have learned to love and trust my own company. The comfort of being alone has brought me a joy that I never knew before. I have learn i do not need to speak all the time, that there is more worth many times to being quiet. But also, that sometimes when you are disheartened that all the world is the same something mysterious and magical will pop up and put everything upside down and there is still so much more to learn.

Countries I’ve Visited

Brazil, China, Ecuador, France, Germany, Lesotho, Mozambique, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

Ireland, Italy, South Africa, South Korea, United States

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