CURRENT MISSION

1. Carry on and keep calm. 2. You are as young as you feel!

ABOUT ME

Easy to get on with, loyal, active, relaxed; interested in cultural and social issues.

PHILOSOPHY

I am anti-box. This is too complex a question to answer in a box!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By teaching foreign languages and about foreign cultures; by receiving foreign students home; by taking an active interest in social issues.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have only just joined Couchsurfers, butI regularly host foreign students in Britain who cannot go home for holdidays. My best travelling memories are of being invited into people's homes, from a farmer's family long ago in Turkey, to recent invitations in China.

Interests

Travel, learning languages, teaching languages, visiting galleries or theatres with friends, cooking and entertaining, looking after family, reading

• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• boxing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Classical, reggae, Georges Brassens
La Grande Illusion; The English Patient; documentaries
All kinds of books

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

1. My whole life
2. Travelling alone eg. around China, seeing Terracotta warriors in the 'flesh'; seeing beautiful landscapes.
3. Being present at the birth and death of loved ones.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can share the languages I know, help people with their English

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, China, Italy, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, France, Jamaica, United Kingdom

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