CURRENT MISSION

Fall more in love with the world.

ABOUT ME

I'm a junior professor of economics at the University of Sydney. You can find me here: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/economics/staff/academic/jonathan_newton.shtml

I travel a lot! In the past year I have crossed the Pacific 6 times, the Atlantic 4 times, experienced 5 winters and 6 summers.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I am new to CS, so I don't really know yet.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

None yet.

Interests

Hiking, running, gym training, mountains, oceans, photography, writing, and reading, especially fiction and philosophy.

• arts
• writing
• photography
• running
• reading
• traveling
• hiking
• economics
• teaching
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

My favourite 3 movies are:
1) Sabrina (love Audrey Hepburn!)
2) Ponette (Touching, really well acted)
3) Paths of Glory (big fan of Stanley Kubrick)

Music... I mainly listen to hip hop and classical music nowadays, depending on my mood. I was a 90s teenager, and used to really like grunge (Nirvana, Soundgarden).

Books...
-Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
-The Rabbit novels by John Updike
-Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Wittgenstein.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sleeping on a bench in a park next to a fortress, overlooking the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Malta, United Kingdom, Yemen