CURRENT MISSION

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain

ABOUT ME

Well technically this is two peoples CS profile! I'm Laura and my travel companion is a lazy Kirsty (who is now reading this and reconsidering her choice of travel companion). About me, Laura? Im a poor uni student who enjoys sitting on the couch and watching daytime television and drinking cask wine more than actually studying. I also work at a Kinder and spend my time making honey toast and getting sand off peoples feet to put their shoes back on. Kirsty is way more interesting. Kirsty is currently teaching in a high school in the rugged australian outback, which to her disappointment is not inhabited by white suit clad hugh jackman types. We love travelling because it provides us with the oppurtunity to meet awesome people, see incredible and crazy things, enjoy getting lost, drink and eat the exotic (sometimes just plain odd) and avoid joining the real world. We are backpacking in Europe in 2009, so drop us an email, we would love to meet you!

PHILOSOPHY

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” - D. H. Lawrence

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We both live in awesome Melbourne and will be here for a beer or a coffee anytime and will be happy to show you around to all the sneaky hidden bars and restaurants here!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

We are new! Eeek!

Interests

You.

• wine
• beer
• coffee
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• backpacking

Music, Movies, and Books

Laura - Aimee Mann, Air, Albert Hammond Jr, Amy Winehouse, Antony and the Johnsons, The Arcade Fire, Augie March, The Avett Brothers, Beck, The Black Keys, Bloc Party, Blondie, Blur, Built to spill, Cake, Coconut Records, Common, The Dap-Kings, David Bowie, The Dears, Death Cab for Cutie, Death from above 1979, Eagles of Death Metal, Editors, Elbow, Elton John, Engineers, Faith No More, The Good the Bad and the Queen, Gorillaz, Gossip, Grandaddy, Interpol, Jarvis Cocker, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Jon Brion, Joy Division, Kashmir, Kate Bush, Kings of Leon, The Last Shadow Puppets, Lou Reed, Martha Wainwright, Mercury Rev, Mos Deaf, Motorhead, Muse, Neil Young, NIN, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Pulp, QOTSA, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Sharon Jones, Sigur Ros, Sinead O'Conner, The Smiths, Sparklehorse, The Strokes, Thom Yorke, Tim Rogers, Tool, Tori Amos, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, You am I.
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If you're still reading, you should definitely meet Laura, or try drugs.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Riding around on the backs of motorbikes, speeding through the dark of winter at 2.am looking for illegal bars open after curfew in Vietnam.

Teach, Learn, Share

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” - Jack Kerouac

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia