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Overview

  • 1 reference 1 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2015
  • Project Manager
  • BSC marine Biology
  • No hometown listed
  • Profile 75% complete

About Me

I was born in Barbados and grew up in New York city. I now live in the south of England, working for a company that cleans up oil spills. I love scuba diving, sailing, climbing, and anything else either ocean based or outside and active (except when those activities involve any close contact with bugs. I hate bugs >_

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I absolutely love travelling and getting a good feel for the culture while I'm in a new place. Its so difficult to find all the little interesting places if you stay at a hotel. And it is just fantastic to make friends with people of different cultures.

I travel a fair bit for work as well, and I like to tack on a bit of holiday wherever I end up. If I'm in these places then I'd love to meet local people and have some awesome experiences.

Interests

Scuba diving, dancing (performing and watching), theatre

I can rant for an age about the natural world, philosophy, music and ferengi business models.

  • fish
  • culture
  • performing arts
  • dancing
  • cooking
  • recipes
  • baking
  • vegan
  • traveling
  • music
  • fishing
  • scuba diving
  • sailing
  • rock climbing
  • business

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Pacific Rim, Sin City, The Lotro series, Sucker Punch, Fight Club, Pan's Labyrinth and other Guillermo del Toro films, Inception, Life of Pi

Not specifically films, but I love my anime: particularly Trigun and Attack on Titan

Books: Anything by Ursula K Leguin Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchet. David Eddings and Garth Nix also have several books that I love. The Game of Thrones series. John Dies at the end, Ready Player One,

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Some of the experiences I've had while Scuba Diving have been absolutely amazing. My best one was during a research dive in Barbados. A loggerhead turtle came up to me and inspected me while i was doing research. It was huge enough to have its own little private school of fish around its head. I'll never forget it.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I'm happy to share some of my carribean cooking skills, as well as elite vegan, free-from-everything baking recipes. I've also got lots of stories of all the places that I've been.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates

Countries I’ve Lived In

Barbados, United Kingdom, United States

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