اهلا وسهلا,انا ناتالي ♡

I'm Nat. I love fountain pens, dioramas and stop-motion animations, language, food and contemporary art. I'm a bit of a daydreamer, often lost in thought. I consider myself an ideas person though often find myself stuck at the bridge between mind and matter.

I feel restless when things become familiar and routine. I feel much more alive in the new and now, which is why I love to be in places I don't know around people who don't know me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

The more people I meet, the less I know. Travel and meeting new people demands some sort of open-mindedness from me that I have found makes life worth living, worth exploring.

Music, Movies, and Books

I enjoy a mix of Arabic, Hindi and English. I'm open to almost all music. I love Yaya Bey, Mohamed Abdo, Ziad Rahbani, Erykah Badu, Andre 3000/Outkast, lofi Hindi and soundtracks from Bollywood films, old Saudi music, anything with the oud, and on and on.

I love hearing from Terrence McKenna and Ram Dass. I have in the past benefited greatly from the talks of Jiddu Krishnamurti and Osho.

Nietzsche's 'Why I Am So Clever' is one of my favourite books. It made me laugh, taught me to annotate and required me to consult a dictionary more times in that text than I have in my life.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I spent 2 years teaching an endearing, intelligent cohort of children in a small rice field village in Cambodia. It was the best experience of my life and perhaps the most intense and difficult. Though this experience was in my early 30s, they were very formative years. To be a teacher really means to be a student and I miss learning from them every day.

Teach, Learn, Share

We can make a stop motion animation together, that would be the most fun. Do you have any creative ideas? We can bring them to life.

What I Can Share with Hosts

I suppose a sincere enthusiasm for their existence. I would like to get to know you!

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Cambodia, Malaysia