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Overview

  • 7 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 39, Other
  • Member since 2008
  • Primary School Teacher
  • University Graduate
  • From Sydney, NSW, Australia
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To learn to listen, to learn to love and to learn to be compassionate

ABOUT ME

Like going skating, loving East London life, school teacher.

Reading a bit of Irvine Welsh at the moment and listening to a lot of Northern Soul

PHILOSOPHY

Have fun?

“The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.” GK Chesterton

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By connecting with other couchsurfers in Sydney, Australia and building understanding and friendships overseas.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Just meeting incredible people all over Europe and being able to stay at their places. I have made some fantastic new friends through couchsurfing that I hope will last long into the future.

Interests

Reading, surfing, snowboarding, coffee drinking, writing, music

  • writing
  • coffee
  • drinking
  • reading
  • music
  • hiking
  • surfing
  • snowboarding
  • teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, I'm Not There, Cinema Paradiso, Don't Look Back, The Corporation, I Heart Huckabees, The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic, Life is Beautiful just to name a few.

MUSIC: Soulwax, Crystal Castles, Justice, The Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, mewithoutyou, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, Battles.

BOOKS: I love a lot of books so I'll just list some authors I dig, Kurt Vonnegut, Dave Eggers, Jack Kerouac, Milan Kundera, Donald Miller, JM Coetzee, Herman Hesse, Soren Kierkegaard, CS Lewis

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiking in the Swiss Alps. Nude.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Fiji, France, Germany, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia

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