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Overview

  • 11 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, French; learning German, Māori, Russian
  • 38, Female
  • Member since 2009
  • Linguist
  • BA in Linguistics and Russian, minor in German
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

Linguist. Improving in pickleball.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I started:

I started hosting while I lived and worked in Auckland, NZ. Hosting changed my life because it sent me travelling in a different direction. When a CouchSurfer made an offer to me to join him, travelling North to South across New Zealand in his campervan, doing work along the way, I considered his proposal and decided to go. That led to orchards, a person who's become one of the important people in my life, hitch-hiking, a goat farm, sailing, nannying, a radio voice-over, good, fresh seafood and new ways of viewing the world.

I have hosted and surfed.

Interests

Performing, languages, self-development

  • arts
  • seafood
  • cooking
  • modeling
  • traveling
  • hiking
  • sailing
  • rock climbing
  • teaching
  • languages
  • hitchhiking
  • language exchange
  • clown
  • marcel marceau

Music, Movies, and Books

Love had a compass - Robert Lax
You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay
The Alchemist - Paulo Coehlo

As it is in Heaven
Ирония судьбы
Les Intouchables
Something's Gotta Give
Forrest Gump
E.T.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I hitchhiked 850 km in one day.

Teach, Learn, Share

language exchange - any
cooking
cleaning / organizing
proofreading / editing

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, language exchange, positivity, help around the house, editing in English

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belgium, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Spain, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, Germany, New Zealand, Russian Federation, United States, Viet Nam

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