CURRENT MISSION

Meeting people and surfing couches (original huh? :-P)

ABOUT ME

I hate the describe yourself bits. They remind me of those tiebreakers on competitions on the sides of cereal boxes ..... (In no more than 28 words complete the following sentence: Weetabix are the best because.....)

Anyway, not much to say, I'm a simple soul. I enjoy getting to know new people and exploring new places, unfortunately due to various things I haven't had the chance to travel as much as I'd like in the last several years.

My interests are many and varied, from playing guitar to cooking to hiking to plotting world domination.

Unfortunately however I am rubbish at languages. I can barely speak english some days so while I will do my best to learn the basics whilst travelling I'm not going to hold out much hope for being understood when trying to say anything more than "hello", "thankyou", and "please help me the rabid squirrels are eating my toes" (although I have managed to commit "oh no my aardvark is dead" in German to memory somehow - it's always the weirdest phrases that stick....)

(final note: unfortunately I gave up the internet for a year or so as I found it was sucking away too much of my time - damn those addictive little flash games! - so during the time I didnt log into anything I missed a number of couchsurf request messages. Now I'm active again - even while lacking reasonable surfing abilities where I live - I promise I will get back to as many messages sent as possible!)

PHILOSOPHY

Grant me the courage to change the things I can, the serenity to accept the things I cannot, and the wisdom to tell between the two.

We're all one big collective so play nice y'hear ;-)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I moved into Percy Palace, the number 1 Manchester hosting spot, a few years back and lived there for just over a year. I enjoyed hosting people from all over the world and hope to return some of those visits now I'm able to start thinking more about travelling again.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Several weeks worth of hosting but no surfing yet (watch this space)

Interests

Too many to list really, but I'll try:

Music, philosophy, chess, scrabble, art (of certain varieties), reading, confusing people, watching cheesy hollywood blockbuster type films, making punch, evacuating tramps (what a party THAT was!), Australia, Japan, the beach (the place not the film), being a perpetual student (I'm failing at this at the moment). There's plenty more but I don't just want to make a 3 page long list of every shiny thing that's caught my eye over the years.

• arts
• cooking
• partying
• movies
• chess
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• surfing
• languages
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Books (or rather authors):
Jostein Gaarder, Terry Pratchett, Piers Anthony, Stephen Baxter, William Gibson, books about Philosophy, Photography or Conspiracy.

Movies:
The cheesier the better, so things like Terminator 2, Volcano, X Men, anything with a high special effects budget, over the top guns and explosions, and general formulaic storyline. Favourite all time movie: Aliens.

Music:
Too many to list ranging from The Clash to the Cranberries, Metallica to Katie Melua, Green Day to Gogol Bordello, and so on...... Basically its all good as long as its not R&B, D&B or jungle (I hate MCs on dancy tracks)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen a llama kiss a llama on the llama!

Seriously tho - I guess it would have to be standing on a beach in a really bad (like monsoon type) storm in Australia looking out to sea and being able to feel the force of the storm - and see it during the huge lightning flashes. Kinda scary but an experience I will never ever forget.

Teach, Learn, Share

When this kinda thing comes up then people tend to say I'm good at teaching them how to look at something they already have an opinion of in a different way. Probably my brief foray into Philosophy helps with that.

I'm fairly good (but no master) at chess and scrabble so if you ever wanted to get better at either of them then I guess I could help

What I wanna learn: Everything really! Life is one long lesson - you should NEVER stop learning about new things (or relearning old things from new perspectives)

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