CURRENT MISSION

teaching japanese grommets how to say kia ora, and exploring the incredibly paradoxic culture and landscape that is japan

ABOUT ME

ahhh, pretty down to earth, honest 26yr old kiwi girl who loves her family and friends, passionate about surfing and going where the wind blows me.

PHILOSOPHY

carpe diem! life is way too short for anything less than mediocre, everyday is a blessing and i am priviliged to have freedom and movement in my life

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

staying at friends and random peeps places on various travels around aotearoa and oz and texas and japan

Interests

surfing, skating my longboard and occasionally braving the snow, travel, traditional and contemporary arts and crafts especially sculpture/installation/photogr aphy/land art...music, especially live music of anything but death metal, hanging with my whanau and friends,reading, learning, exploring....heaps of stuff!

• arts
• culture
• contemporary art
• crafts
• reading
• traveling
• music
• live music
• surfing
• snowboarding

Music, Movies, and Books

all kiwi music (except eight foot sativa) especially fat freddys, trinity roots, the loop and greenroom recordings, all the fabulous summer outdoor music festys we have in nz, reggae, some drumnbass, anything that gets my foot tapping and head bopping. ah...books, the prophet by kahlil gibram is my bible, movies...can't beat chitty chitty bang bang or labyrinth

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

seeing my younger brother and sister being born at home were pretty amazing experiences, surfing with dolphins, having a broom between me and a poisonous snake in texas (for a kiwi this was pretty exciting), surfing epic lennox head with some pros out was pretty cool, snowboarding in south island of nz is pretty choice as well...

Countries I’ve Visited

Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Japan, New Zealand