CURRENT MISSION

To maintain a big cheesy smile and ensure it infects everyone else around me.

ABOUT ME

I bounce out of bed in the mornings with a big grin on my face. I'm incredibly excitable and love evolving as a grow with my experiences. As much as I a committed to propelling forward, at times I look back at forgotten photos and miss the people and the surroundings that made those amazing moments. I just have to remind myself that it just gets more amazeballs every day!

I'm very easy going, honest, love to chat to people and have a good time, all the time. I'm a fun nice girl keen on learning about people, knowing people, and stepping in others's shoes and walking around a while in them.

PHILOSOPHY

I think its very important to be happy, helpful and as non-judgmental as is possible (but not to the extent you become gullible) and to spread kindness because that's the kind of epidemic we all need to be caught in.
I think its important to make an effort to get rid of negativity around you because you work best and live the happiest when your positive and enthusiastic.
I believe smiles, thank yous, hugs, compliments, open communication and bravery make the world go-round.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I am a CSer through and through in that it's the shared experiences with authentic people that makes life so much more potent. For me, a slice of chocolate cake always tastes better shared. Let's share cake.

Interests

I'm always up for trying new things.
I'm a city girl with my love for theatre, musicals, "culture" (such a pompous description) and good quality evenings.
I also like the outdoors - I like walking around old streets, climbing random hills, trekking through jungles and forests, cycling along paddy fields.
I love driving.
I love diving. It makes me feel like a cross between the Little Mermaid and Pocahontas.
I love watching martial arts and boxing.

• arts
• culture
• chocolate
• walking
• outdoor activities
• cycling
• scuba diving
• boxing
• martial arts
• rock climbing
• swimming
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC in no particular order (and cut-n-pasted from my facebook):
Robin Thicke, hope, bic runga, Airtoe (youtube), adele, bill withers, ani diFranco, Maxwell, India.Aire, Goapele, destiny's child, beyonce, Maroon 5, Nelly Furtado (before she became 'hip'), ella fitzgerald, sinatra, amerie, joss stone, jack johnson, brian mcKnight, corinne bailey rae, vertical horizon, sade, skunk anansie, Sarah MacLachlan, Buddha Bar, jamiroquai, tyrese, musiq soulchild, prodigy, sting/police, partners in rhyme, donell jones, keysha cole, jon b, paolo nutini, michael buble, a r rehman, aaliyah, hall & oates, amel larriuex, amy winehouse, angie stone, jagged edge, kelis, koffee brown (whata name!), prodigy, mary j, marvin gaye, whitney houston, lynden david hall, terence trent darby, t-pain, cat power, james morrison, kool and the gang (she's freeeesh, exciting!).......... im writing this down in case i get amnesia - i'll find myself again through the music

MOVIES:
Fight Club (cos he's yum), Banlieue 13 (cos he's yum yum), V for Vendetta, American History X, Sense & Sensibility, Becoming Jane, Leon, All Dogs Go to Heaven, Closer, Pretty Woman, My Girl 1 & 2, A Perfect World, Hot Fuzz, Catch Me If You Can, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Batman Begins (cos he's yum), Saw III (yeh right. sickos.), Severance, The Wedding Crashers, Rabbit Proof Fence, Amelie, Heaven Knows Mr Allison, Severance, Paper Moon, Finding Nemo, Mulan, Pocahontas, Lilo & Stitch, Empire of the Sun, Anastasia, Napoleon Dynamite, East is East, Everytime We Say Goodbye, Reservoir Dogs, Lion King, Jungle Book, Bridget Jones, Gangsta No.1, Pulp Fiction, The Constant Gardener, Blood Diamond, Beaches, Stand By Me, A Walk to Remember, Mr and Mrs Smith, Jab We Met, Khuda Ke Liye, Stealing Beauty, Papillon

BOOKS:
The Princess Bride, Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Little Women, Good Wives (the rest were rubbish), The Odyssey, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Jane Eyre, Harry Potter, On The Road, To Kill a Mockingbird, Indian in the Cupboard, Bridget Jones, Awaken the Giant Within, Great Expectations (cos Ms Havisham is inspirational), Shantaram, the Pillowman

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hot-air ballooning In Guilin - the landscape looked like something out of fairytale.
I took a raft ride down the River Li in China which is so incredibly pretty - I ended up jumping in and having a swim (that was before I learnt to swim - it was the first time I had been in a river even!)
Scuba diving down the side of an underwater volcano in Hawaii and holding my breath as the sharks swam by.
Paddy fields always take my breath away.
Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka made me feel like a 6 year old child.
I've photographed a naked man on an ancient Mayan temple in Copan, Honduras.
I've abseiled down one of the tallest buildings in central London and and crapped myself all the way down.
I've done a bunjee jump too.
I've scuba dived off a little island in Thailand which was magical. Also in Utila, Honduras; Bali; Costa Rica...
I went on safari in Kruger Park, South Africa and saw the Big Five and rode an elephant at dawn in S. Africa.
I've had a sore ass by trekking the Sahara on a dromader (one humped camel) and playing the tabl with 10 other drumming Berbers.

Teach, Learn, Share

Be interested in people. Genuinely be interested. It'll open up a whole new world for you when you take time to get to know others.
You'll end you so ecstatically and crazily happy every time you learn something more about people because you appreciate what they have to offer, you'll learn new things, and then you'll feel dizzy with all the different possibilities of what you can do and who you meet.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Belize, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Honduras, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Laos, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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