CURRENT MISSION

Learn Spanish by travelling in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador

ABOUT ME

I'm hoping that all the other things below are representative of things about me... I'm curious, interested, I like to learn, talk, listen.

PHILOSOPHY

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I can't currently host people because I'm off to South America in a few weeks!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've had some amazing CS experiences - I travelled overland to India and back, and met a lot of fantastic people. Since then I've spent some amazing time in the mountains in Italy with hosts.

Interests

Learning. I want to learn another language (namely Spanish, once I've got that under my belt I'll try Arabic...), I like learning about people, and about education, about cooking and growing, about different cultures, different ways of thinking. Politics, philosophy. Parkour and roller derby. Feminism. Anarchism, socialism. Activism. Food justice. Climate change.

• education
• womens rights
• dining
• cooking
• vegetarian
• vegan
• politics
• traveling
• blogging
• teaching
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Films -

Mondays in the Sun, In Bruges, Amelie, XXY, No Country for Old Men, La Haine, Men Who Stare at Goats, The Road, The Matrix, Goodbye Lenin!, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Memento, Monster, The Godfather 1 and 2 (but not really 3), Deerhunter, O Brother Where Art Thou, films by Pedro Almodovar, 28 Days Later (but definitely not the sequel), Trainspotting, Inception, The Edukators, Lethal Weapon, Edward Norton (especially in American History X), 51st State, V for Vendetta, Johnny Depp (What's Eating Gilbert Grape), Old Boy, This is England, The Shawshank Redemption, Daniel Day Lewis, Leon, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, Shaun of the Dead, stuff with Kevin Spacey in it generally, Apocalypse Now, Hot Fuzz, Blood Diamond, Sex and Lucia, The Full Monty, Pan's Labyrinth, Belleville Rendezvous, The Devil's Backbone, The Lives of Others, Amores Perros, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Howl's Moving Castle, Ponyo, My Neighbour Totoro, any other Miyazaki movies, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...

Tv -

Black Books, SPACED, The Wire, Treme, Orange is the New Black, Arrested Development, House of Cards

Music -

Do Make Say Think, Dan le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Alela Diane, Radiohead, Dizraeli, Explosions in the Sky, Immortal Technique, Miles Davis, Braintax, John Lee Hooker, Louis Armstrong, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Sparklehorse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan, Mogwai, Chris Pureka, Jeffrey Lewis, Kimya Dawson, Regina Spektor, Laura Marling, Muse's old stuff, the Mars Volta, Micah P. Hinson, Rodrigo y Gabriela, The Low Anthem, Xavier Rudd, The Who, The Flaming Lips, Nick Drake...

Books -

Andrea Gibson is my favourite poet. I recommend you look her up on youtube.

Graphic novels which document fact, like Joe Sacco's Palestine, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home, Art Spiegelman's Maus, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Chicken with Plums

Toni Morrison - anything by her, White Teeth (Smith), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey), Cold Comfort Farm (Gibbons), A Grain of Wheat (Ngugi), The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Pappe), Chomsky, Terry Pratchett, His Dark Materials trilogy, Catch 22 (Heller), Brave New World (Huxley), Calvin and Hobbes (Watterson), JD Salinger, books about the politics of language use, William Blake, PB Shelley, Pablo Neruda, Lorca, Like Water for Chocolate (Esquivel), A Confederacy of Dunces (Kennedy Toole), Michael Rosen, Roald Dahl, Granny made me an Anarchist (Christie), The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I travelled overland to India and back. Through the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Mongolia, China, Tibet and Nepal; then back through UAE, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, France... it was amazing.

Here's the blog my boyfriend at the time and I wrote, check it out! http://joshandluciesoverlandadventure.wordpress.com/

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach people to cook yummy vegetarian and vegan food, show you some parkour moves, I'm learning Spanish and at the moment I'm a complete beginner.