CURRENT MISSION

Work towards a blue belt in Brazilian Jujitsu. Learn to surf this Summer. Improve my Spanish and go to Mexico this year.

ABOUT ME

Chilled, open-minded, adventure-seeking, outdoor loving capoeirista!

PHILOSOPHY

"Any one who lives within their means suffers from a serious lack of imagination" - Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing of all, most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is my man!

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

To connect with cool people around the world.

Interests

• sketching
• cooking
• reading
• traveling
• psychology
• climbing
• brazilian jiu jitsu
• capoeira angola

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: R&B, trip-hop, down tempo, reggae, ska, jazz, Motown, electro-swing, hip-hop ,soul, acoustic, world music, psychedelic rock.

FILMS: Desparado, True Romance, City of God, Slumdog Millionaire, Leon, Donnie Brasco, Detachment, I Am Not a Witch

BOOKS: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Shantaram, Ghost Written, The Count of Monte Cristo, On the Road, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Love in the time of Cholera, A Clockwork Orange, Kafka on the Shore

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I climbed 3 storeys down a manhole in Manchester and roamed around the sewage overfill pipes for an article on urban exploration back in the days when I wanted to be a National Geographics journo.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Laos, Malaysia, Monaco, Morocco, Myanmar, Netherlands, Portugal, Russian Federation, Singapore, Spain, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Guernsey, Myanmar, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom