Hello! My name is Laura and I'm a Canadian currently living in Sydney, Australia. I lived in Japan for 4 years, and I love travelling and meeting new people! I work as an illustrator and ESL teacher, and I'm always trying to improve myself in both of these areas.
Feel free to check out my website at www.lauralikesart.com

PHILOSOPHY

This sounds cliched, but I honestly believe if you set yourself goals and envision yourself doing what you want to do while working towards them, then things willl fall into place. Whatever it is that makes you passionate, follow it, cherish it, nuture it. This is when life really unfolds...

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

By being both a surfer and a hoster!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Surfed:
Cyril Enrique- Tokyo, Japan
Wendy Seo- Seoul, Korea
Bridget Hogan- Seoul, Korea
Jeffery Chow- Beijing, China

Interests

-music, karaoke, bass playing, making playlists and mix cds
-Art, drawing with inks, markers, oil painting, collage and scrapbooking
-Reading, esp fiction
-Languages- currently studying Japanese daily. Have 2 kyuu of the JLPT and working towards 1 kyuu.
-partying, drinking, dancing, randomness:)

• arts
• dancing
• partying
• drinking
• reading
• traveling
• scrapbooking
• painting
• drawing
• music
• karaoke
• animation
• teaching
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Fav Music:
mostly 80's music, trance, techno, indie rock

Fav Movies:
American Beauty, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Black Swan, Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, The Room, Mean Girls, Shawshank Redemption, Office Space, Thirteen, Beetlejuice

Fav Books:
The Wind up Bird Chronicle- Haruki Murakami
A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Hosseni
Battle Royale- Koushun Takumi
Lolita- Vladimir Nobakov
Out- Natsuo Kirino
Written on the Body- Jeanette Winterson
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See
Lucky- Alice Sebold
Posion Study- Maria V. Snyder
Blindness- Jose Saramago
Infidel- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Concertina- Susan Winemaker

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hanami season is always beautiful :)

What I Can Share with Hosts

I will gladly draw your portrait if you are willing to host me!

Countries I’ve Visited

Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Canada, China, Indonesia, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Philippines, South Korea, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Japan

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