CURRENT MISSION

To explore and live adventurously and to spend as much time in the North as possible.

ABOUT ME

I am easy going and love to meet new people. I am open to trying new activities and checking out different places. I really enjoy getting outdoors, especially hiking.

I am interested in indulging and developing my creative side. My interest in film and writing has been sparked recently and I am really stoked to see where it goes in the future, I have a lot of ideas and I am excited to start pursuing them. If you have any film or writing projects that you could use a hand with, I love learning and would be happy to help.

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PHILOSOPHY

I am truly fortunate in that I do exactly what I love, learning and travel. I enjoy meeting rowdy wild characters and gentle souls alike. I work really hard and I generally get satisfaction and pride from my work. I try to follow a policy of no harm to others and I want to learn to live more sustainably, something that I have been thinking about a lot recently.

I think that to affect any change in the world, you must start with yourself. I hope to leave a positive legacy and I have many dreams that would contribute to that. :) We can only do so much and that being said, you have to take a good thing and run with it whenever you can. If you never take a chance, you can never truly live, sometimes it really hurts.

Life is what you make it and I'm trying to make it everything I can.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have met some of the coolest people I have had the pleasure of knowing through couchsurfing. What has been incredible about my experiences through this community is how each time I have shared time and words with other couchsurfers, I have been given a glimpse of what their community or home is like through their own eyes. The hospitality and friendship that I have encountered has acted as a testament in my mind to the good in people.

Interests

Cooking, Music, Hockey (CANADIENS!!!!), poetry, history, hiking, horseback riding.

• writing
• poetry
• cooking
• beer
• coffee
• running
• traveling
• music
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• equestrian
• hiking
• hockey
• history
• tourism
• language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Gangs of New York, Second Hand Lions, 16 Years of Alcohol, American Werewolf in London, Layer Cake, The Fighter, John Q, La Grande Séduction, Children of Men, Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov), Viy, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Trainspotting, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Valhalla Rising, Lemonen und Citronen

"Eugene Onegin" Alexander Pushkin
"Fathers and Children" Ivan Turgenev
"The Master and Margarita" Mikhail Bulgakov
"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
"Of Mice and Men" John Steinbeck
"On the Road" Jack Kerouac
"Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter" Seth Grahame-Smith
"Druids" by Morgan Llywellyn
"Trinity" by Leon Uris
"Call of the Wild" Jack London
Anything by John Steinbeck
Army of Darkness

Music: Wednesday Night Heroes, Knucklehead, Comeback Kid, Gravemaker, Rural Alberta Advantage, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Black 47, Flatfoot 56, No Problem, Mischief Brew, Leftover Crack, Star Fucking Hipsters, Catch 22, Desmond Dekker, The Specials, Big D and the Kids Table, Verse, Have Heart, Transplants, Rancid, Lars Frederiksen, Over the Rhine, Bon Iver, Old Crow Medicine Show, Lucero, The Unseen, The Casualties, Street Dogs, Briggs, Tossers, Pixies, Kinks, Pogues, Devil in Me, Dubliners, The Pixies, The Avett Brothers, Neil Young, The Hold Steady, Death Cab for Cutie, Defiance Ohio, The Felice Brothers

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked Uluru in Central Australia. Surfed on the west coast of Ireland. Scrambled up Ben Nevis. Been soaked in a torrential downpour in Singapore. Fallen in love and been loved in return. Thrown caution to the wind.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can cook quite well. I am certainly willing to practice conversational english with folks too, hopefully in a language exchange.

I would love to practice Russian!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lebanon, Moldova, Netherlands, Paraguay, Singapore, Slovenia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Brazil, Canada, Jordan, Ukraine

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