CURRENT MISSION

To break down the walls...

ABOUT ME

I am a thoughtful, critical and compassionate human being trodding the road of creation. The more you live the more you learn. True experience, true action and immersion is the key to understanding. I love reading, music, philosophical and spiritual conversation, eating and drinking, learning and speaking foreign languages (and teaching them) and MUSIC (djing, playing instruments, clubs, dancing). I was formerly a teacher of Sociology/History in the UK for 4.5 years. Moved to Berlin in 2014 to commence in international MA that took me to both Argentina and India. I moved to Bern, Swirtzerland in October 2018 to commence what looks to be an amazing PhD project researching Jamaican and Mexican culture influences on US Hip Hop, sweeeeet :)

PHILOSOPHY

It is by living through difficulty and adversity that we learn to grow into the person we wish to be (but sometimes I wish it could be easier, haha). "Life is what you make it they say..."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Unable to host at present since my move to Bern (I am staying in a temporary place) currently, but have done extensively both in Bristol (UK) and Berlin (Germany). Often not formally through couchsurfing, but communal living and an open door policy is my own given the kindness of 'strangers' and all they have done for me the world over (which I always wish to do in return, such is the power of travel, connections, breaking down barriers etc).

Willing to share tai chi, qi gong, languages, sociology, political understanding (hasta la victoria siempre) and knowledge/passion for many different types of music (roots reggae, dub, disco, house, techno... DETROIT)!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Valencia, and 'informal' CSing elsewhere including friends I met along the way in Vigo, Gaelicia., Sardinia for 8 days.

Interests

Reading, music, languages and the arts. Tai chi and qi gong. Sociology/Politics.

• arts
• drinking
• reading
• music
• reggae music
• teaching
• history
• languages
• sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Aldous Huxley - Island, Emile Zola - Germinal, Biography of Malcolm X.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived on a himalayan mountainside for 2 weeks in Sikkim, Northern India with a local family. Studied one semester at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. If you don't know (and you ever have the opportunity), get to know!)

Teach, Learn, Share

tai chi and qi gong, reggae music and its history, all things sociology.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bhutan, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, France, India, Laos, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom