I am a bubbly young English woman who loves languages, history, culture, politics and good food!

I am big on travelling but I prefer to live places for a little while to really get to know the culture and the people- I hope to spend my life living in different countries and learning different languages.

I am an urbanist and cities writer and researcher, concerned with civic engagement, digital social innovation, collective intelligence, sustainable urbanism and urban environmental justice and sustainability. I will be taking a masters next year in urbanism and hope to one day be somebody who helps to make our cities the best places they can be for both people and the planet!

I have GREAT taste in music - get ready guys...

I have a good sense of humour and love to laugh; I also love to cook all different types of cuisine so will be a great guest!!!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lily-maxwell/

https://twitter.com/lily_maxwell

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

I want to get to know more people from around the world and continue to practise my current languages and learn more! I currently live in Barcelona but I have lived in Cambridge, London, Manchester and Paris, and am hoping to move to a new place soon!

I am new to Couchsurfing so do not yet have any references (I know, sorry) but I hope to get some soon - I hope that my linkedin can reassure you that I do exist/am nice though!

I am coming to Amsterdam for a month from mid-July to mid-August to do a course in research methodologies and I would like to live with a local/somebody who has lived in Amsterdam for a while and really get to the city and its culture - and maybe even learn some Dutch if I can! I don't want to just live in someone's house or in student accommodation, I would like to make new, lifelong friends and really contribute to the city myself!

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Badlands of the Republic - Mustafa Dikec
Insurgencies - John Friedmann
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf (basically all books by Virginia Woolf)
Cien Años de Soledad, Crónica de Una Muerte Anunciada - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
El Cuarto de Atràs - Carmen Martín Gaíte
A Room with a View - E.M Forster
Different kinds of poetry - Carol Anne Duffy, E.E Cummings, ....
Stupeur et Tremblements - Amélie Nothomb
Call me by your name - incredible film
All Almódovar films ever
Documentaries
I studied film in my final year so many many.... Metropolis

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

Invited Tom Misch to a concert in Barcelona when he was playing at Primavera and HE CAME!

Mmmmm.... I once made an INCREDIBLE tabbouleh.

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

I can teach any of my languages (I have experience) or anything about literature, film, urbanism etc. I also really want to learn new things - especially new languages - too!

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Laughter, good food, good music, very in-depth and intellectual conversation ahaha... knowledge of French, Spanish and English... book recommendations...

Pays que j'ai visités

Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Morocco, Spain, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

England, France, Spain