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Overview

  • 7 references 3 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English
  • 39, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Primary school teacher
  • BA Honours- Media and Advertising. PGCE Primary
  • From Croydon, England, United Kingdom
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About Me

Primary school teacher from Sutton (live in Croydon with some other room renters). Lots of likes, not many dislikes. Keeps a person happy =]

Football fan, like photography and art and beer, mostly vegan / vegetarian but not fussy.

Love to travel, film, music, food and trying new things!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

People learn from other people really well. If everyone knew what everyone else knew- there would be no problems. We could progress together. Evolve in the mind and move forward as a species. Non fiction

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Stayed with some great people in New Zealand and Chile. And met many more through couch surfing. Super fun community.

Interests

Seeing new places and meeting new people. Photography. Charcoal drawing. Football. Art. Music. Festivals. Anything fun and active!

  • arts
  • photography
  • festivals
  • dining
  • beer
  • vegetarian
  • vegan
  • traveling
  • drawing
  • music
  • cycling
  • surfing
  • soccer
  • teaching
  • mathematics

Music, Movies, and Books

Music - Cliched, but anything really.

Poetic stuff from Radiohead, classics from Bowie, classical from Vaughn Williams or Dvorak, dirty DnB with Andy C, Giles Peterson on BBC6 Music playing Jazz.

Basically anything that sounds good.

Film - Christopher Nolan, JJ Abrams, Wes Anderson - all dudes.

Books - (When I have time...) Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, Secret Life of Plants, some David Icke stuff

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Rode a Minsk 1950s motorcyle up Vietnam? that was cool. Nha Trang to Vinh. South to North... Numerous breakdowns and dusty sweaty empty roads and cursing and joy and photo opportunities. I became a mechanic in that month. A mechanic that could laugh at his own unfortunate circumstances. Makes me want to have a bike now...but you can only get away with it in Nam.

Teach, Learn, Share

I know the Tai Chi Chuan Yang style- short form. I've taught it before if anyone was interested?

Always eager to learn more about other cultures and ways of life.

What I Can Share with Hosts

T'ai Chi. Traditional English roast dinner. Great chat and laughs! A philosophical debate. Primary school maths tuition.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, India, Laos, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Viet Nam, Wales

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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