CURRENT MISSION

To expand my small New Zealand psyche and enjoy doing it :)

ABOUT ME

Well, this is my first travel experience and I will be in Europe for two years. One year has already passed and it's amazing to see how much I've changed. Right now I enjoy traveling with no plan, just see what happens, but really I want to try travel with no money, or very little. Ultimately I just want to live life freely.
I love learning, anything new and also I do a wee bit of woofing, particularly farms with any type of animal.
In general I would say I'm easy-going, open minded and happy :)

PHILOSOPHY

"Seek not abroad, turn back into thyself, for in the inner man, dwells the truth."
St. Augustine

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
Cesare Pavese

… a human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive.

- Albert Einstein

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm only traveling at the moment but as soon as I'm home I will open up my couch, floor, whatever I have because I know exactly how it feels to be in need of a decent place to sleep.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

The first time I couchsurfed was just off the street, in a small village in the middle of the night. I will always remember how grateful and inspired I was.

Interests

I love animals and am really interested in the environment, especially our impact on it and how we can live self-sufficiently. I can never be far from nature and love the wilderness, I also love dancing and a good party. My hobbies would probably be horseriding, drawing, photography, swimming, walking, playing, laughing :)

• animals
• culture
• photography
• beauty
• dancing
• environment
• walking
• partying
• traveling
• drawing
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

All music, particularly live. All books, usually ones that involve a bit of thinking based on life. All movies. I think my life would be incomplete without these three things.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Spending ten days in Sarek National Park in Sweden, 24 hour light, reindeer, no humans, pure nature.

Traveling the length of Italy in 5 weeks, every single day brought new experiences.

Teach, Learn, Share

I plan on learning as much as I possibly can whilst traveling. Particularly culture, I love to learn the traditions and am dying to learn traditional meals that I can share myself.
I'm also very interested in farming and wan to learn as many different techniques and methods possible.

Every situation is an opportunity for deep transformation.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Denmark, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Norway, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, Spain