CURRENT MISSION

re-adjusting to canadian life after 2 years away from home....

ABOUT ME

we're a canadian couple (laura, 25 and colin, 26) who live in toronto.

this past summer, we travelled europe for 4 months after living in Japan for a year & a half.

laura's in school doing a masters and colin is working/volunteering so sometimes we're free but sometimes we're very very busy!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

we played host in our tiiiny Japanese apaarto in Osaka, and surfed plenty of couches and mattresses this summer in europe! couchsurfing is the best way to really get to know a city/country and its people.

Interests

colin: music, art, drawing, movies.
laura: reading, listening to music, tv & movies, cats.

• cats
• arts
• cooking
• movies
• reading
• tv
• drawing
• music
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

movies: bladerunner, the royal tenenbaums, mulholland drive, me and you and everyone we know, happiness, pecker, black cat white cat, lost highway, caddyshack, the rock, audition, spirited away, akira, yojimbo...

music: deerhunter, animal collective, no age, phil collins, bruce springsteen, blonde redhead, deerhoof, broken social scene, the arcade fire, hot chip, the d'urbervilles, the forest city lovers, ohbijou, oneida, holy fuck, fleet foxes, the dodos, born ruffians, dan deacon, the talking heads, cadence weapon, chad vangaalen, cat power...

books (laura): anything from literature to theory to trash. some favourites include - jane austen, katherine mansfield, kurt vonnegut, david sedaris, haruki murakami, f. scott fitzgerald, john irving, will self, douglas coupland, fay wheldon, douglas adams, simone de beauvoir...

art (colin): goya, jeff wall, keith haring, courbet, marcel dzama, jeff ladouceur, raymond petibon, caravaggio, francis bacon, eva hesse, duchamp...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

we lived in Japan for a year and a half... and yet can barely speak japanese.
we backpacked europe and rode the trains all around.

Teach, Learn, Share

we enjoy cooking, music, art, etc etc etc.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Japan

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