Currently back home in Edmonton for the foreseeable.

Available to hang out and meet up. Can show you around and help you plan next moves from Edmonton onwards.

Check back later if looking for a couch - I may be able to host in the next few months.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

Travelling is awesome, and couchsurfing is like freecycle for travel, except you get free stays and make some free friends and everybody wins.

I famously said to my mother upon returning from my first ever three months abroad "My only regret is I'll never live to see it all." Thirteen years later, I've accepted my own challenge. Couchsurfing helps with this - even if it's just meeting people who might be able to say something like "Oh, my brother lives in X city, when you're there look him up". That kind of networking helps a LOT on the road!

My favourite game to play is "What's your top five countries". So what are your top five countries that you'd travel to if security/money were no object? Mine are:
Iraq
Iran
Peru
Japan
Mongolia

Centres d'intérêt

Art, travel, and writing. Occasionally combining the three where possible.

I love trying new food and experiencing new cultures. I recently became totally addicted to souvlaki!

I love hanging out with locals - that's the best way to see a country and experience it!

Nothing is better than growing your own fruits and vegetables - we had our own allotment in the UK and it was so thrilling to cultivate your own food.

I love thunderstorms. The more severe the better. I actually miss prairie Canada sometimes and the absolutely heinous storms we get.

I'm a history buff and particularly like medieval English history as well as Ancient history (particularly Babylonian). I'd actually give almost anything to go to the ruins of Babylon.

I love writing long stories.

• culture
• writing
• dining
• wine
• gardening
• traveling
• painting
• drawing
• mountains

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Books - Historical Dramas, particularly about the Tudor ages of Medieval England (The Other Boleyn Girl and the Boleyn Inheritance are my two favourites).

Anything by Edgar Allen Poe.

Movies - The Green Mile (the book as well!!), documentaries, Breakfast Club, Tremors, The Departed, Seven Psychopaths

TV Shows: Big Bang Theory, Simpsons, Family Guy, Archer, American Dad, Corner Gas, CSI, crime dramas, Departures (If you're into travel, you NEED to check out Departures!)

Music - literally anything, far and wide as well as far out and wild. From Ace of Base to ZZ Top, anything goes including Classical and Country.

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Sitting on a berber carpet with two berbers, two americans and a british girl and my husband in the Sahara desert under the milky way sharing whiskey out of a flask in the middle of the night.

Pete got offered 500 camels for me in Morocco. That was pretty hilarious.

Lived in the UK for six years. Integrated beautifully, from what I'm told, and became essentially more British than Canadian.

Travelled by bus alone from St Johns to Stephenville, Newfoundland to visit my grandma, a trip of over 12 hours. Then stayed in the tiny hamlet of Stephenville Crossing for 3 months in 2009, where internet is rare enough you need to go to the library to use it. Then discovered the librarian and I were first cousins thrice removed.

Went snowshoe hiking in Jasper, Alberta after a snowstorm when the snow was like knee deep. The trail may or may not have been closed.... if it wasn't, it probably should have been.

SAFARI IN TANZANIA!!!

Was taught by Pete how to ride a motorbike in Laos on dusty, potholed roads on an island called Don Khong in the deep south. It was a shitty (and I do mean shitty) Chinese version of a Honda, conveniently called Honghua. The steering was messed and the speedometer didn't work, and there was no indication of which gear you were in. Managed to learn to ride a motorbike on that thing, then a couple days later did a huge motorbike trip around Don Khong, not crashing once.

Took the plunge one year and enrolled in a playwriting course. Proceeded to get my second full length play selected for a night of excerpts at the Playhouse in Salisbury. After seeing myself come so far (from where I used to be extremely self conscious of others reading my writing), I went to work the next day and quit my job, knowing full well I could do something far more fulfilling with my time on the planet than being stuck in a job I hated making already rich men richer.

The most amazing thing I've done is becoming essentially homeless - not being a resident of any one country. Sure, I'm a Canadian citizen, but I haven't been a resident there in like six years. Now I can't be resident in the UK... so... now I am just a citizen of the World, making the next random town my temporary new home.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

I'm a qualified TEFL teacher, so if your English is rusty, I can help!

For those who meet up or stay with me, I can promise you some great conversation, great stories and some travel tips. You never know, I may even be able to help you get that "on the road business" idea off the ground!

I love learning from others, so let's share some culture :D

HOUSE RULES
- No coming and going at all hours. We usually stay up quite late, so that isn't a problem. We also sleep quite late so feel free to let yourself out if you want an early start.
- We will lock the door at 1am every night. Please be back by then.
- We live in a close quarters apartment building with neighbours downstairs and up. Please no loud music after 11pm or slamming doors.
- Please no drugs, including marijuana. We aren't sure of the situation around here with that, so it's better to play it safe. We're very open minded about that kind of thing though, so if you do it, please just keep it to the beach.
- Please respect our neighbours when you come and leave in terms of noise volume. We seem to have a very sensitive older gentleman downstairs.

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

English Language
Knowledge of Canada and the UK
Stories
Cooking
sharing ideas
I will do dishes or help prepare meals
I would love to spend time with hosts if possible :)

Pays que j'ai visités

Albania, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Morocco, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Albania, Canada, Egypt, Georgia, United Kingdom