CURRENT MISSION

To lose control, follow my fancies and trust in the universe to provide.

ABOUT ME

I am a sweet, sarcastic, peaceful, helpful, cheeky, juvenile, sensual, complicated, Scorpio Sydney girl.

I love a good dance to any kind of music, eating food I didn't have to prepare myself, talking to my best friends about our funny little lives, lying in bed for hours just thinking, and animals.

I want to be happy, and I want to make others happy too. Couchsurfing let's me do my bit for humanity which has been pretty nice to me so far.

I also love learning things about other cultures and who better to learn from but my couchsurfing brothers and sisters!

PHILOSOPHY

"We are here to run towards what scares us."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Back when I lived in Sydney I hosted some fantabulous travellers who accepted shelter in my humble home and did mini meet ups with other couchies who were interested in hanging out with an Aussie.

I finally got couchsurfer myself, and I have taken refuge with some delightful folks in Iran, Iceland and Chile. To have someone invite you into their home and help you make sense of their country and culture, well, that was just amazing.

And before my couchsurfing days I always loved a good sleepover!

Interests

I love (in alphabetical order) baby animals, bed, board games, books, bookshops, bus rides, cemeteries, couchsurfers, dancing, dark chocolate, double cream, dress ups, eating vegetarian, engrossing conversation, flirting, horizontality, joking, karaoke, kissing, knitting, laughing, languages, lentils, listening to clever people, minimalism, personal growth, picnics, puppies, putting things in alphabetical order, reading, Scrabble, shopping for yarn, strawberries and cream, tequila, trees, watching movies in the cinema, yoga.

• animals
• culture
• books
• dancing
• dining
• recipes
• chocolate
• wine
• running
• shopping
• movies
• reading
• knitting
• music
• piano
• karaoke
• paragliding
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Swingers, Legends of the Fall, Desperado, Fight Club, Dangerous Liasons.

Fav Books: City of Night - John Rechy
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
House of the Spirits - Isabelle Allende
A Dutiful Daughter - Simone de Beauvoir
Of Human Bondage - Somerset Maugham
Dry - Augusten Burroughs
The Unbearable Lightness of Being-
Milan Kundera
Candy Girl - Diablo Cody

Music: Stuff in Spanish, rock, pop, oldies, newies -- pretty much ANYTHING. I love to be influenced by other people's musical tastes. There is so much out there and so little time to hear it all!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Let's see.. there was the:
- waterfall abseiling in Lesotho
- 35-hour bus trip across Brazil
- week of drunken revelry during Xmas/New Years in Budapest
- meeting a couchsurfer who is a stranger and within a week is a close friend
- paragliding in the pouring rain in Medellin
- 6 days of amazing (AND NEVER TO BE REPEATED) torture doing the Lost City trek in Colombia
- feeling of my heart bursting from seeing Ecuador's majestic mountains
- playing with baby cheetahs and elephants in South Africa
- ice skating around Gorky Park

Teach, Learn, Share

TEACH: Knitting!

LEARN: Easy recipes, about you and your travels, to play piano!

SHARE: All I've got at the moment to offer is my friendship and a bottle of wine. Will that do?

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Lesotho, Lithuania, Malaysia, Northern Ireland, Norway, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Vanuatu

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, United States

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