Hi, I'm Ody. I came from Yogyakarta but I lived in Jakarta for 8 years but I already went back to my hometown recently. I make cafe latte every morning, and of course I will make it for you too!

I've just quit my 8-5 job and now I'm working remotely with creative agency from US as a video editor. I'm planning to travel the world while working as a video editor. I hope we can meet along the way. I love to have friends from across the countries!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

2011, first time I knew about CS. When I lived in Germany, and my Indonesian friend who lives there come to me and told me about her experience in CS. So I made it, and I'm into it.
Then, I met a friend from Bangkok, we haven't met in real life but we keep in touch, he helps me a lot when I'm in Bangkok. That time, he's really busy so he couldn't meet me.

Then right now I made a lot of friends from around the world because of CS. And I hope it will go on. It felt nice to have friends who talk differently

Interests

Coffee. I own a micro roastery in Purwokerto, so...
Books, music, travel, games, diving. I have a lot of interest to talk to

• arts
• culture
• books
• photography
• coffee
• movies
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• hiking
• track and field
• swimming
• tourism
• diving
• scubadiving
• specialty coffee

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Dashboard Confessional, Regina Spektor, Sheilaon 7, Coldplay, Maroon 5, The Script, etc.
Movies: Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Series: Orange is the new black
Books: Hunger Game Series, Haruki Murakami, Ayu Utami's work

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

*I can't swim. But in the end of 2023, I took Open Water Dive Course with SSI. And I made it! Now I'm a certified Advance Open Water Diver. And it's not my last journey.

*Hiking Merbabu mountain 4 times, and at the third time I tried short cut to go down, but then I thought I get lost in jungle, in the middle of nowhere. Then a group of wild monkeys shouted and try to chase me. I run and imagined like a scene of Hunger Games Catching Fire, then I saved after fell down on the right track.

*I can't swim but I forced my self to freedive in Karimunjawa, Gilis, and Kepulauan Seribu

*I was 18 that time and that was my first time go far away from home to germany, and lived there for 5 months with the stranger (then we become family)

*Ride motorcycle for 7 hours from Jogja to Karimunjawa with my friend (we're both girls)

*Solo backpacking to Bali from Jogja by train and economy bus, it felt really good to travel alone but sadly I just don't have a person to talk

*Ride motorcycle from Mataram lombok to Kenawa Sumbawa, that's awesome experience. We're only 4 girls who don't know about Lombok or Sumbawa but we had guts! We ride or motorcycle to Pototano, and met a nice fisherman there and ask him to take us to Kenawa, it was so cheap and he's a nicest person we met there. In Kenawa, there's nothing to sleep, so we build our tent, make a campfire but we met some snakes. We're girls and we made it.

Teach, Learn, Share

* Teach : Language, Culture, Folksong, Music, Art (from Indonesia)
* Learn : New Language, New Culture and Friends, Photography, Hiking tips, Cheap Travel tips and tricks - do and don't, Story from another land-space-country-district, etc.
* Share : Coffee, Culture, Respect, Language, Story, Positive attitude, etc.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Story, Coffee, Experience, Culture

Countries I’ve Visited

Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Indonesia