CURRENT MISSION

to learn the words to the song "99 Red Balloons" in German

ABOUT ME

I've just joined a rock band as the lead singer. I started off studying chemical engineering, then switched to a BA in French and Italian. Then I studied education. I used to dance a lot, but now I don't really have the time. I like to read, listen to music (loud), sing in my rock band, dance, hang out with my friends, travel!!!! and some other things which I can't really think of right now. My greatest skill is probably procrastinating, in fact I've got about 200 tests to mark right now which I'm putting off till later (much later). I love animals, I have red hair, I recently learned how to use contact lenses but always get up too late to put them in. I used to model and do TV adverts, but had to stop when I started working full time. I'm a vegetarian (13 years), I tend to drink too much coffee, and my favourite colour is silver. I'm currently sitting at home listening to The Killers, and now I'm just writing for the sake of writing, so I think I'm going to stop.

PHILOSOPHY

I think the purpose of life is to get as much out of it as you can. I think we need to try to do as much as possible with the time we've got right now, and have fun in the process. I think life's something you can't take too seriously, after all no-one gets out alive :P

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Haven't participated yet, but I'm super keen to start surfing and showing people around my beautiful city.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet, but hoping to have my first one very soon :)

Interests

maths, science, languages, people, reading, figuring things out, brainteasers, music, theatre, dance, cooking (though I can't), computer programming

• animals
• writing
• books
• singing
• dancing
• education
• cooking
• coffee
• vegetarian
• modeling
• drinking
• reading
• tv
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• surfing
• teaching
• engineering
• languages
• mathematics
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: Up the Down Staircase (all teachers should read it!), Catch 22, Watership Down, Three Time Plays, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, everything by Isaac Asimov, the Harry Potter series

Movies: can't think of any right now, but any superhero movie!

Music: too much to mention! The Killers, Audioslave, Queen, The Beatles, Coldplay, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, 3 Doors Down, Matchbox 20, The Shins, The Dirty Skirts, Ellie Goulding, The Futureheads, The Libertines, Hard-Fi, Lily Allen, Adele, Lifehouse, Elton John, Michael Buble, Barry Manilow, Modest Mouse, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Oasis, Radiohead, Sara Bareilles, Travis, U2, The Weepies, The Zutons

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I rented a car in Sardinia with two friends, and drove on the right hand side (the wrong side) of the road. There were a lot of screams and near death experiences involved.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know French and Italian, how to program in php and html, a lot about Astrology, quite a bit about maths and science, and a little bit of piano and guitar. I also know a lot of random things, for example, the opening line to the book Moby Dick is "Call me Ishmael".

I'm keen to learn absolutely anything and everything!!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

South Africa