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Overview

  • 22 references 16 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning German
  • 29, Female
  • Member since 2014
  • Photographer, Lighting Technician, Adventure Guide
  • Film & Audio Production Gratuate
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

IN NEPAL NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2019.

I'm just a silly Aussie with too many impulses and ambitions. Currently juggling the elephant of the entertainment industry and also just finished school to become an adventure guide! If you're planning a trip to the Blue Mountains - message me and we can go for a hike or a climb!

I adore the outdoors. And I love music, and art, and expression. And cooking.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I don't want to do another standard tour, pub crawl or Googleable tourist activity - I want to make real friends and I want to make them all curry.

I grew up having travellers staying in my family home for my whole life before the CS app existed. We have had over 300 couchsurfing visitors (once we had 16 people in one night!) to my family home. Now I've moved out and I'm not usually able to host due to working too much, but I'm trying to change that.

Interests

I work in a field that miraculously encompasses most of my hobbies - so I'm perhaps one of the luckiest people alive!

I want to learn something new every. single. day.

I'm also a terrible rock climber
But I'm a happy rock climber

  • animals
  • arts
  • photography
  • festivals
  • cooking
  • beer
  • music
  • guitar
  • hiking
  • backpacking
  • rock climbing
  • swimming
  • philosophy
  • hitchhiking
  • mountains
  • food
  • travelling
  • sustainability
  • conversation
  • space
  • conservation
  • breathing
  • living
  • soil
  • beetroot
  • quokkas
  • swedish authours

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, The Cat Empire, Moby, Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Machine Gun Fellatio, Borneo, Pink Floyd, Ratata, Pond, the Kinks

Film is a superpower. Let's talk about them.
I hate any film centralised around a horse. Let's not talk about those.

Books:
Dark Emu (probably THE most important book for Australia ever written. It's an absolute MUST READ if you ever are even thinking of coming here. It's the ONLY text ever written that accurately illustrates our Indigenous cultures!!!!!!)
The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared
Douglas Adams - everything
Beelzebub's Tales To His Grandson
Harry Potter

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hitchhiking to the Rocky Mountains and back with nothing but a hammock, a jar of Vegemite, a Bavarian and a hockey stick

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you the best way to pick up a koala and also I have a really nice trick when it comes to handling venomous snakes.

Enquire within for more details.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can sit you down with your pacifying beer and force incredible Aussie music upon you. I can and will cook you something you've never tried before. I can show you how to tie some really cool knots. I can teach you how to play almost any song on guitar and piano.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Qatar, Singapore, Slovakia, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Hong Kong

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