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Overview

  • 13 references 8 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Student
  • Trying not to let my uni studies distract me from learnin...
  • From Born in Gisborne NZ. Hometown Havelock North, Hawkes Bay
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Mission? Live life! Host people! See the world from as many perspectives as possible

ABOUT ME

I really enjoy lollipops, especially chuppa chups.

PHILOSOPHY

Financial wealth is the least valuable. Find the magic. And have a positive attitude because for petes sake, what's the point in bringing things down? Feel the groove, learn love and share, open up!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have a boyfriend, please do not use this website as a dating service.On a more positive note, I've loved my surfing experiences thus far and met some awesome people! I'm enjoying jumping into the lives of my hosts, discovering new lifestyles and philosophies etc, and I hope that in visiting and eventually hosting people I can do the same.

Interests

I may be no great sportswoman, artist, or intellectual, but I can enrich my life with what I can do. So I play bass and a little guitar, sing, juggle, ride my bike as fast as I can down hills, study maths, write lists. I also like the beach, hackysack, music, playing pool, and philosophical discussions - or arguments in general :p Oh and I also like smilies =)

  • singing
  • cooking
  • billiards
  • juggling
  • magic
  • music
  • guitar
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • paragliding
  • mathematics
  • beaches
  • mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Fat Freddy's Drop, Trinity Roots, Sola Rosa, Katchafire, Kora, Salmonella Dub, Pacific Heights, Hollie Smith, Ladi6, Shapeshifter, Crowded House, Electric Wire Hustle, Groove Collective, Cinematic Orchestra, Norah Jones, Bob Marley, Radiohead, The Beatles, Bowie, The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, The Carpenters, Fleetwood Mac, Joan Armatrading, Tracy Chapman, Simon and Garfunkel, Herbie Hancock, Amp Fiddler, Oscar Peterson, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Victor Wooten, Tal Wilkenfeld, Jamiroquai, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, Nick Drake, Jack Johnson, Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, John Butler Trio, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchel, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Faure, Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Grieg.

Across the universe, Keeping mum, Black Swan, The Notebook, The Darjeeling Ltd, A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life, Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas, Requiem for a Dream, Almost Famous, Eagle vs Shark, Chocolat, Good Will Hunting, Lock Stock, PS I Love you, The Lion King, Mamma Mia.

I'm so non 'well read' that a list of my favourite books would be embarrassingly short. So I'm just going to say that that last book I read was The Great Gatsby, which I very much enjoyed.
- my new last book was Jane Eyre and I loved it =)

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I'm suspect the most amazing things to me mean little to others, although PARAGLIDING SWISS ALPS sounds pretty freaking cool to most people!!!

Teach, Learn, Share

Well I can show you some awesome Kiwi music and some basic bass/regular guitar. Nobody seems to want to learn maths... but I like it and know a wee bit. I can juggle a little and start you off riding a unicycle =)

I'd like to learn French, some better cooking skills, how to surf! And anything else you feel you can share

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Fiji, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands

Countries I’ve Lived In

New Zealand, Switzerland, United Kingdom

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