CURRENT MISSION

Finding a new home!

ABOUT ME

Ask me.

PHILOSOPHY

"Give me a call, when you're willing to fight, for what you think is real, for what you think is right"
Ani Di Franco
"A map of the world that does not include Upotia is not worth looking at"
Oscar Wilde(?)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

With reciprocity.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've spent the last 16 years of my life travelling intermittently and so perenially ended up on people's floors, couches and occasionally spare beds. Was graciously welcomed for 11 days in Claremont, Capetown a few years back. An amazing way to see a very different side to that city. Spent 4 months on a floor owned by a wondeful woman I met in Nairobi. She lives on the edge of Kibera, one of Africa's biggest slums, and is the inspirational head of local development charity. I worked for her to get a school built and she hosted. I definitely got the sweetest end of the bargain.

Interests

I love getting out of the city for Walking and Swimming. I enjoy returning for Eating, Dancing, Theatre and Movie-going.

• dancing
• walking
• traveling
• swimming
• mathematics
• sign language

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Dancer in the Dark, 21 Grams, Intacto, Beautiful Thing.
Music: Golfrapp, Bjork, Tori Amos, Ani Di Franco.
Books: Life of Pi, Thousand Splendid Suns, Shadow of the Wind, Perfume.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I danced in the Openning Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, 2002.

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: English, Maths, British (and related) Sign Language.
Learn: Any practical hands-on skill - this part of my brain rarely functions.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Iceland, Madagascar, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Kenya, Slovenia, United Kingdom

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