I'm an exchange student currently living in a house in Christchurch!

I study physics, and am pretty creative, usually writing, drawing, or playing music to kill my time.

I also love the outdoors and hiking and tramping as they say here in NZ. I'm a vegetarian!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I joined up while I was travelling/living abroad as I love meeting new people.

Interests

As above, writing, drawing, playing music. I also like interesting pubs and cooking a lot!

• culture
• writing
• cooking
• baking
• vegetarian
• pub crawls
• drawing
• music
• guitar
• piano
• outdoor activities
• hiking
• physics
• solo travel

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies:
Big Fish, Men Who Stare At Goats, My Cousin Vinnie, Stripes, The Princess Bride, Disney's Enchanted, anything by Studio Ghibli.

Books/Authors:
Haruki Murakami, David Foster Wallace, His Dark Materials, Harry Potter, Daniel Defoe.

Music:
Way way too much to list. Cherry picking:
An Café, Frank Turner, Nujabes, MUCC, Watsky, Maximum The Hormone, Firewater, Jonathan Coulton, The Marvelous 3, RHCP, Toro Y Moi, 9GOATS Black Out, Suga Shikao, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jens Lekman, BOY, Bibio, Andymori, Broken Bells, Portugal. The Man, Anamanaguchi, C2C, The Antlers, Tame Impala, Portugal. The Man, Broken Bells, Temples.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I did NaNoWriMo 2 years in a row and hit 50K words both times!

Teach, Learn, Share

I love teaching stuff about maths and physics, it's great to see people understand the really cool stuff you learn studying physics!

I love learning about all sorts of things but especially the culture of other people- you should tell me standard dating etiquette of your culture, or what holidays you celebrate, or how to properly speak to one's elders.

What I Can Share with Hosts

If there's a guitar or a piano to hand I can always share a song or two. Other than that only the witticisms of a Brit. I make a mean vegetarian pasta sauce, and have a solid hand at cake baking if you're up for something a bit more involved!

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Fiji, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Sweden

Countries I’ve Lived In

England, New Zealand, Wales