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Overview
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