ABOUT ME

I'm known affectionately (I hope) as gypsy, due to my itinerant lifestyle rather than my penchant for bare-knuckle fighting! Living and working around the world for several years,guiding safaris in Namibia, Botswana and Angola, teaching English in Taiwan, Thailand, India and France; Managing a volunteer organization based in Ghana , Mali and Burkina Faso and studying social development in South Africa. Right now I teach religion and sociology in the Bahamas and am working on writing free-lance. Along the way I have worked and played with some incredibly inspiring people who have welcomed me into their lives and their homes as a friend not a stranger. I feel privileged to have had these opportunities and hope that I can be part of the eye-opening, mind-broadening travel experiences of other like-minded individuals.

PHILOSOPHY

Eschew the conventional. Do things that scare you. Eat healthy. Recycle.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'll gladly host when I can and assist when I can't.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm a first time couchsurfer but love the idea of getting a local perspective and opening up travel opportunities to those less financially well-endowed!

Interests

Anything on or in the water.
Yoga
Cooking
Current affairs
Literature
Travel (obviously!)

• writing
• literature
• dancing
• cooking
• yoga
• traveling
• religion
• sociology
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Anything by Somerset Maugham, Scott Fitzgerald, Salman Rushdie, Michael Bulgakov or Gunter Grass - works of genius all.
Betty Blue is my favourite movie of all time.
Music.... anything but metal.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Mali, Mali, Mali!
The Mud Mosque in Djenne at dawn.
Masque dance on the cliff edge of the Bandigara Escarpement, Dogon country.
Sunset in the Sahara, Timbuktu.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Belize, Botswana, Burkina Faso, China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, India, Lesotho, Malaysia, Mali, Mexico, Mozambique, Spain, Swaziland, Zambia

Countries I’ve Lived In

Angola, Ghana, Greece, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom