CURRENT MISSION

I am currently working as a doctor in France, doing my psychiatric specialisation.

In a more general sense, I’m still trying to figure out exactly what i want to do. Some days I feel more lost than others.

I am increasingly convinced on a hypothetical level of injustice and unsustainability of capitalist society, and so a lot of my time is spent thinking about that, and figuring out the principles and specific realities of better alternatives.

ABOUT ME

I grew up in the countryside in North Somerset, and went to a Quaker school for most of my childhood. Since leaving school, I have spent most of my time in the Southwest UK, with a little bit of travelling in between.

Here is a list of things about me:

I did a Masters in Labour, Social Movements, and Development at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Vegetarian since Jan 2015. Vegan since April 2016.
I've been involved in quite a few volunteer activism things (in healthcare and workers' rights) in recent years.
I am really interested in peoples' personal philosophy.
I’m serious about ultimate frisbee - what a sport!

If you feel you need to know me better to couchsurf, just ask me some questions.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I have couchsurfed in these places:

Kampala, Uganda.
Berlin and Hamburg, Germnay.
Budapest, Hungary.
Istanbul, Turkey.
Sofia, Bulgaria.
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Firenze and Montebelluna, Italy.
Marseilles, France.
Chennai, India.
The Hague, The Netherlands
Vilnius, Lithuania.
Reykjavik, Iceland.
Bucharest, Timisoara and Hateg, Romania
Granada, Spain.
Vrsac and Guca, Serbia
Wroclaw, Poland.

I've also hosted people in the various different places that I have lived, and I'm very grateful for the experience.

Interests

Reading, writing, talking, not talking, hiking, football, ultimate frisbee, running, movies, cooking, relaxing, surfing, outdoors.

At the moment I'm trying to learn the guitar (slowly!), and get better at vegan cooking. I also think I'll start rock-climbing this year.

• writing
• documentaries
• cooking
• vegan
• yoga
• running
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• bouldering
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• kayaking
• surfing
• sports
• soccer
• biology
• volunteering
• ultimate frisbee
• communism
• anarchism

Music, Movies, and Books

Books-Life of pi, Self-Yann Martel. Cold Mountain. One thousand years of solitude, Love in the time of Cholera, Chronicle of a death foretold-Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Twenty love poems and a song of despair-Pablo Neruda. White egrets-Derek Walcott. The old man and the sea-Ernest Hmeingway. Dharma Bums, On the road-Jack Kerouac. My name is red-Orhan Pamuk. Cannery row, Grapes of wrath-John Steinbeck. Doctor Zhivago-Boris Pasternak. Fear and loathing on the campaign trail-Hunter S. Thompson. We-Zamyatin. Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov. The Feast of the goat-Mario Vargas Llosa. Midnight's children-Salman Rushdie. Betrayal(Play)-Harold Pinter. Embers-Sandor Mirai. Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm-George Orwell. Brave new world-Aldous Huxley. Poems-Ted Hughes. Poems-E.E.Cummings. Poems-Billy Childish. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Money-Martin Amis. The Trial. A Portait of the Artist as a Young Man. The Silent Cry. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles.

That is a list of books I read and liked before I started university. Since then, I've turned a lot more to non-fiction academic writing. Two of the best things I have read are: The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt, The Many-Headed Hydra - Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker.

Music-Bob Dylan, Sigur Ros, James Blake, Mount Kimbie, Van Morrison, The Doors, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Radiohead, Leonard Cohen, Joanna Newsom, Tom Waits, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Devendra Banhart, The Beatles, Animal Collective, Modest Mouse, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Beach Boys, Otis Redding, Ali Farka Toure, Staff Benda Bilili, Bob Marley, Serge Gainsbourg, Erik Satie, Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors, Bon Iver, Neil Young, Alan Lomax Recordings, Led Zeppelin, Deerhoof, David Lang, John Adams, Mbira, Kevin Volans, Bobby McFerrin, Oscar Peterson, Arvo Part

Again, the list of music above is from many years ago. These days, I am mostly interested in traditional/folk/roots music from peoples around the world.

Movies-Big Lebowski, 1O1 Reykjavik, Waltz with Bashir, Withnail and I, Spinal Tap, Lord of the Rings, Monty Python, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Darjeeling Limited, In The Loop, Wall-E, La Double Vie de Veronique, Le Feu Follet, Basquiat, Goodbye Lenin, The Fall, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Usual Suspects, Ordinary Decent Criminal, Clockwork Orange, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Brassed Off, The Full Monty, Being John Malkovic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Synecdoche, Baader-Meinhof Complex, Man Bites Dog, Un Bout de Souffle, Brazil, Apu Sansar Triology, Repo Man, Holy Motors, Samsara, How to Survive a Plague, Triage, Fire in the Blood, Inside Job, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, The Limits of Control, Underground.

And many many more...

I would love to talk anyone about these things if they have similar tastes, disimilar tastes or haven't tasted them yet!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Last year, a group of people at my university occupied the offices of the managers, because they had threatened to close our refectory and fire the workers, our comrades, there. Together, we united, and successfully resisted the closure. It was an incredibly moving experience, and I learnt so much from all the people involved.

Teach, Learn, Share

I suppose I know a little about biology, medicine, marxist theory, about writing, about speaking French, about cooking, about football and ultimate frisbee.

I'm a very keen learner though, so I'll be happy to take advantage of your knowledge and skills. I feel cooking is quite an easy thing to learn when couchsurfing.

What I Can Share with Hosts

The true power of couch-surfing is that, in a world where housing and accommodation are extremely expensive, enclosed, and commodified, it offers an alternative.

This is a way for a weird community of people to create a Commons. Something that we all share, and manage together.

You are welcome to my everything in my house, and are welcome to stay anytime.
You can come if you just need somewhere to stay, or if you want something to do.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United Kingdom