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MOD DESERT WARRIOR FOR PEACE

ABOUT ME

Hello out there! Any-body-home??? I'm Hayley (AKA Delilah for purposes of my Blog) and Shaun (AKA Jack) is my partner in crime. We are both university students who enjoy politically charged debates, reading, cooking, watching science fiction and foreign films, travel, adventure, thrift shopping etc...
We worked very hard (I waitressed at an East Indian Restaurant, Jack delivered Pies and held down the fort at a videostore) so that we could afford to take last summer off to travel.

PHILOSOPHY

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - (borrowed from Nelson Mandela)

"And those who were dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -( borrowed from Friedrich Nietzsche)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

As new-comers to the couch surfing experience, we hope to utilize this amazing network of people around the world. Upon returning to our home country we will gladly provide our house to future couch surfers, from Canada and beyond!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We had an amazing trip, and an excellent experience couch surfing through Israel! We would be obliged to return the favor!

Interests

Politics. Controversy. Music. Books. History. Art. Environment. Human rights. Gardening.

• cats
• fish
• arts
• culture
• books
• literature
• concerts
• dancing
• education
• environment
• human rights
• cooking
• vegetarian
• gardening
• shopping
• thrifting
• politics
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• blogging
• music
• guitar
• violin
• cycling
• fishing
• surfing
• hockey
• teaching
• history
• science
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Too many to count- I am a bonafide bookworm!

Music:
Neil Young!!! Radiohead, Sublime, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Against Me! Buffalo Springfield and CSNY, M.I.A, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Amy Winehouse, Grateful Dead, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Good, the Bad and the Queen, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, The 1900's, LCD Soundsystem, Elvis Costello, Jay-Z, DJ Dangermouse, Ohbijou, Arcade Fire, The Guess Who, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Songs:Ohia, The Kinks, The Animals, The Unicorns, DeVotchka, The Shins, Las Cruces, The Zombies, Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, Bright Eyes, The Beatles, The Doors, Bob Dylan, The Postal Service, Elliot Smith, Iggy Pop, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Belle and Sebastian, The White Stripes, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Jefferson Airplane, Midlake, The Rolling Stones, David Bowie, Queen, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, The B52's, Roy Orbison, Janis Joplin, Devo, The Avalanches, The Gorillaz, The Mama's and the Papa's, Gram Parsons, Pink Floyd, The Clash, Iron and Wine, The Velvet Underground, Ray Charles, Bob Marley, The Band, Hylozoists, Ghost Bee's. Gentlemen Reg, Rage against the Machine

Movies: Zelary, Amelie, Everything is Illuminated, The Shining, Virgin Suicides, Royal Tenenbaums, Big Lebowski, Oh Brother Where art Thou?, Waltz with Bashir, Milk, Grease, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, many many more....

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Well, Delilah and I both don't know if we could classify anything we have done as "amazing", but here is a list of interesting things that we have both done together, or apart during our meager existence on this tiny sphere composed of mostly water, in the vast expanse of the infinitely amazing universe of existence (inhale).

-Walked on a glacier
- Won first place in the highland dance competition in Canada's largest highland Games
-Swam in the Great Barrier Reef
-Read Lord of the Rings front to back in grade three
- Went on a five hundred kilometer cycling trip, solo
- Followed a family heritage in Scotland, and visited the clan castle
- In possession of a full cat skeleton
- Been across Canada, coast to coast
- Attended Lollapalooza in Chicago
- Held a koala
- Canoed and camped on the Magnetawan River
- Jumped off a 40 foot cliff into water (maybe higher?)
- Visited Graceland (Elvis' house)
- Worked at an ostrich farm
- Saw Steven Lewis speak
- Went skinny dipping in the Pacific ocean
- Seen in person, not at the zoo: Black Bear, Moose, Beaver, Loon, Bald Eagle, Platypus,Deer, Eel, Dolphin, Turtle, Jelly Fish, Manta Ray, Bass, Trout, Salamander, Snake, Koala, Dingo, Kangaroo, Unicorn, Dragon, Liger and many more that we can't think of.
-Seen Neil Young seven times in concert
-Seen also: Rage Against the Machine, Bob Dylan, David Bowie and many, many more.
-Been to Petra- convinced our parents we got married in a bedouin ceremony and slept in a cave
-Been to the Church of the Holy Sepelchur, and seen many more religious sites in Jerusalem
-Swam in the Red Sea, Dead Sea, Black sea, Mediteranean Sea, Agean sea, annndddd the Sea of Galilee (which is actually a lake!)
-Snorkeled in the Red Sea in the Sinia
-Saw a hyena in the wild
-Hiked from Czech Republic to Poland over four days and slept outside in the mountains
-Stayed in a cave hotel in cappadocia
-Saw a church made out of 40,000 human remains in Kutna Hora (Czech republic)
-Hopefully, many things yet to come...

Teach, Learn, Share

Jack and I are two young adults who have an "earnest desire to save the world" (For all you Ishmael readers out there)! But first we must be able to overcome our preconceived conceptions of reality, society, cultures, human beings, and the world itself. Travelling abroad, and engaging with people from other countries around the world seems the logical place to start. To quote a famous revolutionary, this trip (and our lives) are an attempt "to [feel] a little more fraternity with this, for [us], strange human species".

We offer to our couch-surfing host:
- Friendly discussions (world politics, history, literature, pop culture, sex, drugs and rock n roll)
- One amazing meal (Jack makes a tasty pasta dish and I, Delilah, can do a decent vegetarian curry)
- We can feebly play instruments if there happens to be any available (Violin, guitar and a mean tambourine)
- Sharing our culture (regal stories of Canada pertaining to polar bears, freezing winters, hockey, maple syrup, lumberjacks, igloos, snowmobiling, beavers, moose, and the great expanse of the vast wilderness of this country).
-Any information you would like to possess about Neil Young (literally ANY information, Delilah is obsessed with this man!)
- ANNNDDDD of course, Friendship!!!!!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Egypt, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Poland, Romania, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Turkey

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