Hi :)

I'm a recent English Lit graduate in a very meh job. This year, I'm planning on doing all the fun things I didn't have time for last year because of too much work!

Just got back from travelling around the Balkans :D

I like to approach everything with an open mind and am eager to learn new things and meet different people. I'm a vegetarian and like to cook delicious food on my own and with a group. Also a bookworm, and fan of the arts & pop culture in general.

Note: I only accept requests from people who've taken the time to read my profile and think we will get along - write "tigers" at the bottom of your message to show you did this :)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

A new place is always more wonderful with cultural exchange and making friends.

I'm new to Couchsurfing, but my first experience of it just a few weeks ago was incredible. I felt that I really got to know the place I was in better than any previous travelling experiences, and made some great new friends whom I plan to visit again!

Interests

• culture
• writing
• human rights
• reading
• drawing
• music
• psychology
• travel
• theatre
• language
• vegetarian cooking
• women's rights
• arts & crafts
• shivam yoga

Music, Movies, and Books

Books: currently reading Ondaatje's The English Patient. I love Zadie Smith's White Teeth, big reader of Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Salman Rushdie, Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth and Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion, Beckett's Waiting For Godot also big favourites...or just hand me a National Geographic! Also love non fiction and essays, theory (esp. theory of myth). I will read most things, though :)

Music: Simon & Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Lisa Hannigan, Kate Bush, Katzenjammer, Blur, John Butler Trio, Andy McKee, Smashing Pumpkins, Ivo Pogorelic, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, MC Solaar, Regina Spektor & lots of others!

Movies & TV: Forrest Gump, Man on Wire, Calvary, Human Planet, Planet Earth, Mary & Max, Harvie Krumpet, Clueless, Flight of the Conchords, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Desperate Housewives & many more.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I can share some great veggie recipes (and cook them for you too!). Also love a big discussion about life, literature, travel.
I speak Irish and am happy to teach a little of the language along with folk tales & mythology.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Malaysia, Montenegro, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, Ireland