CURRENT MISSION

make art chew slow

ABOUT ME

I had a previous CS page when i was travelling with my ex boyfriend... we decided to keep it to share references, check them out here.
http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/madib/

I am currently at an artist residency on the outskirts of Beijing. It's a fair hike (about one hour by tube) to get to the touristy stuff, but can offer a pretty genuWine experience.

I'm an art student in adelaide, and i also work at a small but endearing organic cafe. Between study and work, i play some sports, ride my bike, do a bit of gardening, street art and occassionally practice the one song i know on my piano accordion. I am also vegan and looove to cook/concoct.

PHILOSOPHY

life's a garden, dig it.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I stayed with so many great CS hosts whilst traveling, and have met with a couple since returning.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I met one fellow traveler through couchsurfing and ended up traveling with her across russia and into mongolia. Today we still are great friends and see each other when we can.

Interests

I love paint. and Photos, books, the smell of books, tea, tea pots, sleeping, dancing in an oafish manner, a good discussion about something deep, a good discussion about something trivial, coffee, wine, friends, family, beards, wolves, caravans, the word blah, many other words, languages, surfing, swiming, the mudpond in the forest, Vöner burger, tears without pain, rain on a tin roof, seven dollar cinema nova, warm baths, Buskers, permaculture, people, faces....

• arts
• books
• street art
• dancing
• cooking
• wine
• coffee
• vegan
• running
• gardening
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• knitting
• painting
• piano
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• sports
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

music: the cat empire, beautiful girls, paul kelly, gogol bodello, john butler trio, Cat Stevens, Leonard Cohen, Camille! Angus and Julia stone, balkan beat box, radiohead, Devendra Banhart, Moby, Air, Belle & Sebastian, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Yann Tiersen, the xx, alex ebert, M.I.A, beastie boys, Grandmaster Flash, Sufjan Stevens, bonobo, fourtet, amon tobin, cloud control, little red, the doors, edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes, bon iver, beirut, Blackroc, the black keys, Feist, Grizzly bear, mumford and sons, jaques dutronc, the national, yann tiersen, Sparrow, SOURSOP, Beiruit, zoe lyons, fleetwood mac, annie difranco, Andrew bird, boy and bear, the tallest man on earth, jinja safari...

books: shantaram, live eat pray, sophies world, one straw revolution, when nietzche wept, crime and punishment, jane austens... kafka on the shore, Murakami, The lives and loves of Simon deBeauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre, Cloud Street, Dirt Music, disgrace,

movies: pride and prejudice, lord of the rings, amelie, everything is illuminated, wild america, leon, death at a funeral, love actually, slumdog millionaire, babel, happenstance, pulp fiction, O brother Where art thou? Donnie Darko, Pi, 12 angry men, minority report, reservoir dogs, No country for old men, Okoribito, Dr. strangelove-or how i learnt to stop worrying and love the bomb, century of the self, tim burton movies, 12 monkeys, Goodbye Lenin, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Inglorious Basterds, The tripplettes of Bellville

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Planted quite a few trees on a reforestation project in Tamil Nadu.
shovelled human shit
Drove into Srinigar after curfew.
The road between Srinigar and Leh.
Met and hung out with kids in Naudanda :)
ate only rice and spinach and daal for 3 weeks.
Flew over everest.
Ate Som Tum
rode a tandem bike with my little bro around Angkor Wat
floated in the dead sea
took ceramic lessons in hebrew... sort of
Was silent with the sirens in Israel
sat solo infront of a pyramid.
swam in the nile
midsummer at a finnish lake house.
skinnydipped and slept by a lake in berlin city.
hitchhiked.
Tried to eat vegan in Ukraine....
Found Raskalnikovs house.
"busked" in the Moskva train station.
took the transiberian rail way and slept on the siberia/mongolia border in a cold, dark, van.
almost missed said train running to find a wool/yarn shop for knitting.
Drank tea in the Wenshu tea house, Chengdu.
Carried an accordion from Berlin to china overland before getting fed up with protruding nails and sending it home.
life has treated me well thus far :)

Teach, Learn, Share

this and that and those and anything