I like to think I'm quite relaxed and easygoing, I've just graduated and am going through the obligatory existential crisis! I have always enjoyed travelling - though often without making real connections with people where I have been. Couchsurfing seems like a great way to do this.

My real passions is wildlife - especially birds. I've been a birder (birdwatcher) for most of my life and love nothing more than going somewhere beautiful and enjoying the nature around me. Birding has also taken me to many weird and less beautiful places (nuclear power plants, sewage farms, airport runways!), where I really enjoy seeing the overlap of humans and nature. I am also into more wildlife than just birds - especially plants, though I am still very much a novice and have a lot to learn.

I'm also a big music fan, I like jazz but also enjoy a lot more from UK garage & grime to Nigerian & Ghanaian highlife.

I love to learn - and think that you can always learn something from your interactions with others.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I want to see new people and meet new places. Couchsurfing seems like a great way to do this.

Interests

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• wildlife
• arts
• culture
• jazz
• history
• nature
• birding
• birdwatching

Music, Movies, and Books

Like lots of music from classics like Fela Kuti, Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Stan Getz, Mulatu Astatke, Augustus Pablo, to more mdoern stuff like Portico Quartet, Gogo penguin, haitus kaiyote. Also enjoy stuff like Four Tet, Caribou, Burial.

Also love Kanye west big time & of course like the stuff that most people do - Drake etc. Also enjoy lots of UK grime and garage - e.g. Dizzee Rascal, Novelist, Klashnekoff, Tempa T, Wiley etc.

Books I have read recently and enjoyed are: 1984, 100 years of solitude, the great gatsby, on the road & big sur by Jack kerouac, hemingway, the poetry of John Clare. Some Non fiction: bad science & bad pharma by Ben goldacre, feral by George monbiot

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Kayaked alongside Spinner dolphins!

Teach, Learn, Share

I am happy to teach what I know - which is a little Biology, Chemistry, Maths, and a reasonable amount of knowledge of Wildlife. I am keen to learn what I don't know - which is almost everything!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Hopefully friendship and fun. I'm also very happy to cook a vegetarian meal - I would be happy to try to cook meat also but I've been a vegetarian all my life so it might not be any good!

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, India, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom