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Overview

  • 15 references 6 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Indonesian, Japanese, Spanish
  • 34, Female
  • Member since 2010
  • Editor of Global Hobo
  • Bachelor of Law + Journalism
  • From Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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About Me

I'm 28 and I like doing something different every day.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I surf and host when I can. I think it's so rad being able to see a city through the eyes of a local, and it gives you new eyes to look at your own city with when you're hosting.

Interests

Writing, travelling, red wine, sleeping in, rockpools, reading, scuba diving, cooking, skiing, live music, eating, hiking, camping, vanning, yoga...

  • animals
  • writing
  • dining
  • cooking
  • wine
  • red wine
  • reading
  • traveling
  • music
  • live music
  • hiking
  • scuba diving
  • sailing
  • skiing
  • swimming
  • languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Bookwise, I like classics, good literature, good autobiographies and shitty Agatha Christie novels. My faves are The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The Tiger's Wife, Lolita, Middlesex, The Alchemist, Harry Potter, The White Tiger, To Kill a Mockingbird, Half of a Yellow Sun, Enduring Love, Papillon and The True History of the Kelly Gang. As for music, I like psch rock, disco, house, techno, dub, deep house, surf rock etc...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

If you're not amazed most of the time, you're not paying attention, right? But cool things I've done are driving around Australia, bungying in New Zealand, staying in an animal rehab lodge in the depths of the Amazon, sailing around Croatia, swimming with wild sea lions off some creepy island in Peru, hunting with a tribe in Tanzania, ice skating in Sweden, going to school in Japan and hanging with nudists in the Californian desert.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can poach an egg to perfection and order a bottle of red in about seven languages. I can also teach you how to accurately use a semi-colon.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, United Kingdom

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