CURRENT MISSION

Meeting beautiful people and places

ABOUT ME

I'm an adventurous and excitable young Capetonian, studying Anthropology and International Relations at UCT.

I am currently on a semester abroad at the University of Amsterdam, such a wonderful, vibrant city !

I hope to play a role in transforming South Africa's education system, and at home I volunteer with SHAWCO education, where I teach grade 3's in an impoverished area.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Eager to meet some wonderful people and share some lovely experiences while travelling.

Interests

Hiking, laughing, spending time with friends, adventures, reading, learning, photographing people and places (a new hobby, with my first camera) cats, listening to music, sitting in rivers in forests.

• cats
• education
• reading
• traveling
• crochet
• juggling
• knitting
• music
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• anthropology
• teaching
• international relations
• languages
• volunteering
• rivers
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Beach House and Grizzly Bear and The XX for their dreaminess. Ella Fitzgerald and Fats Waller for Romance. Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Eric Satie, Albeniz and Brahms for breathing. But also... Radiohead, David Bowie, Arvo Pärt, Nouvelle Vague, Dario Marianelli, Lana Del Rey, First Aid Kit, 1920s Jazz, Skeleton Zoo, Bateleur, Gateway Drugs, Led Zeppelin, Fleet Foxes, Bombay Bicycle Club, Camera Obscura, CocoRosie, Dear Reader, St. Vincent, Angel Olsen...

Lost in Translation and the Virgin Suicides -- Sofia Coppola's finest. Tarsem Singh's 'The Fall'. 'Her', Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle (well, Hayao Miyazaki films in general), Goodbye Lenin!, The Prestige, Inception, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Midnight in Paris, Vicky Cristina Barcelona... And of course, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings.

The Mighty Boosh, Eddie Izzard, Monty Python, Twin Peaks!

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), Half of A Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), Roald Dahl, George Orwell, Pride and Prejudice (Austen), The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand), Wuthering Heights, Cider With Rosie (Laurie Lee), Sylvia Plath.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Doing a two-day cycle along the Via Verde in Spain - Beautiful Catalonian country in the height of Spanish summer.

Hiking in Cape Town -- so many beautiful forests and mountains we have !

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you to knit, crochet, juggle, speak some Afrikaans, play the piano, read music.
I want to learn EVERYTHING. Well, almost. Especially languages.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Netherlands, South Africa