I'm a New Zealander who's been living in Japan for the last couple of years.
I spent a year studying at Waseda in Tokyo and am just about to finish a year of teaching English at primary schools in Mie.

I've never gone traveling by myself but am going to Taiwan and Korea soon before heading back to NZ to do a masters in Translation.

I love exploring new places, reading, art galleries/ museums, sake,

PHILOSOPHY
Open mind
Curiosity

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Couch surfing seems like an awesome way to meet people from all kinds of backgrounds!

As soon as I have a couch to offer I'd love to host people back in Auckland.

Interests

Reading, languages, travelling

• arts
• walking
• reading
• traveling
• socializing
• surfing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Belle and Sebastian, Broken Social Scene, Why?, De La Soul, Alt-J, Neutral Milk Hotel, The National, The Smiths, Dandy Warhols, Rhye, Beach House, etc etc etc and 島唄。

Books: anything by Raymond Chandler, Simone de Beauvoir, Evelyn Waugh, Oscar Wilde. Haruki Murakami. Christopher Isherwood. Natsume Soseki.
Lolita by Nabokov!
Infinity Net- Yayoi Kusama

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Fallen asleep at the top of Mt Fuji.

Riding a 2-storey Ferris wheel in Saintes Marie de la Mer by the seaside in France.

Stumbled upon a man in Tokyo walking his giant tortoise around the neighbourhood.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Fiji, France, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Laos, Mexico, Samoa, South Korea, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Japan, New Zealand