Hi, I'm Genie,
My 'House Rules' as follows:
#1 RESPECT - Yourself, other people and our environment
#2 take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for your thoughts, words, actions and emotions.

Please read the Couchsurfing Rules and Terms of Use. (Scroll to the bottom of the page).
Couchsurfing Hosts are NOT obliged to host you.
Even if I accept your application I have the right to withdraw at any time should you show any form of disrespect.

It is my intention to provide a SAFE place where all who care, share and dare to be different.

I am wishing for a place where people feel:

1. A sense of Wellbeing (Empowerment)
2. A sense of Belonging (Caring)
3. A sense of Contribution (Community)
4. An opportunity to Communicate (verbal and non-verbal)
5. Explorations - learning new things

A place where a human is considered holistically for the basis of positive relationships.

I welcome you at My Place, Nelson, NZ under my 'umbrella' of Respect and Personal Responsibility.

Warm regards
Genie

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Because is a reason...you might like to ask me, "Why?"

I have had many delightful guests as couchsurfers. Air BnB and others.

Be informed about the CULTURE where you are traveling. (I am of English/Irish/French descent)

I am happy to host 'smokers' as long as they smoke outside, down wind of me and take ALL their cigarette butts off my premises.

Interests

Dancing - Argentine tango, rock 'n' roll, ballroom sequence and more
Eating and cooking marvellous healthy food
Gardening
Socialising, meeting new people
Playing board games face to face
Reading
Writing
Researching
Computing

• dancing
• gardening
• board games
• reading
• people
• music making
• questioning

Music, Movies, and Books

Many and varied

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was born...isn't that enough?

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach me something I don't know...

Martin Luther King - "I have a Dream..."

Rudyard Kipling - "Six Honest Serving Men"
(What? Where? When? Who? How? and Why?)

Dr. Maria Montessori - "Help me to help myself".

Mahatma Gandhi - " Become the change you wish to see".

Confuscious - "I am, it is".

The Bible - Luke 19, vs 20/21 - 'When the Pharisees asked Jesus,
"When will the Kingdom of God come?"
Jesus replied,
"The Kingdom of God is neither here, nor there, for the Kingdom of God is within".

...and many more quotes besides...

What I Can Share with Hosts

My personality - a wide experience of life and conversations
A wide range of practical skills
Maybe a dance lesson?

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, Israel, New Zealand