CURRENT MISSION

Learning how to be an entrepreneur... (or if I can be one!)

ABOUT ME

Jo: I moved to Tel Aviv at the beginning of 2010 to be with my boyfriend, now husband, Amit. I'm an Aussie who has lived in Canberra, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sydney, and also in Montreal (Canada), Newcastle (UK) and Fukuoka (Japan). I like good conversations, drinking coffee or beer or red wine, going to the beach, eating amazing Israeli food...

My husband Amit is an amazing photographer, and also works in a startup company (Israeli is the Start-up nation after all!).

We love meeting new people and discovering new places.

PHILOSOPHY

Mostly I'm overwhelmed by how much there is to learn in this amazing world that we live in.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We love travelling and staying on couches, and we also enjoy showing people around when they visit Tel Aviv!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Some friends were part of the CS community in Canberra and seemed like a great bunch. I also joined some couchsurfing events in Tel Aviv when I first arrived here, and it was a great friendly introduction to this amazing group of people!
In 2013 we couchsurfed in Japan and had an amazing time!

Interests

music, eating, drinking, travelling, writing, science, photography

• writing
• photography
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• wine
• red wine
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• traveling
• music
• ecology
• entrepreneurship
• history
• science
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music (Jo & Amit): The Shins, Nina Simone, Death Cab for Cutie, Bjork, Radiohead, The Dirty Three, Jeff Buckley

Movies (Jo): Before Sunrise, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine for a Spotless Mind, Amelie.
Movies (Amit): Fight Club, Momento, Garden State, The Prestige

Books (Jo): The Windup Bird Chronicles by Murakami, everything by Murakami in fact! Great Expectations by Dickens, Gone with the Wind, Shogun, The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot, Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer.

Books (Amit): 100 years of solitude, The Wind-Up bird chronicles - Murakami.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

meeting my Israeli husband at a cooking school in Hoi An, Vietnam in 2009 is the most amazing thing I've done lately, considering it has led me to move to the other side of the world!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give you a crash course in Australian ecology and environmental issues... There are some parallels to the Israeli environment, but I'm still discovering them! I'm also good with random science and history facts. I also enjoy discussing life as an expat.

Amit will be sure to take amazing photos of our visit and share them with you :) Check out his website: http://flyonthewall.co.il

Countries I’ve Visited

Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, United Kingdom