CURRENT MISSION

I'm aiming to be fluent in German by April.

ABOUT ME

I'm a musician living in Sheffield, which is my home town. I currently play lead guitar in the punk/rock band Heavy Duck and I teach piano and guitar lessons privately from my home.

I'm interested in a wide range of music - I was brought up with classical, got interested in rock and metal during my teens and I've always had a love for video game soundtracks (particularly by the composer Nobuo Uematsu).

I'm currently participating in a training course in the Feldenkrais Method, which takes place in Germany for 8 weeks every year. I'm learning to speak German and am interested in meeting up with German speakers here in Sheffield.

PHILOSOPHY

Life is more interesting when we're learning - to me, it doesn't really matter what I learn as long as I go about it in an interesting way. So I think it's important to break out of routine sometimes and do something new.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'd like to meet up with German speakers here in Sheffield to practise my German, or do an language exchange if they want to work on their English.

Interests

Computer art; languages; travelling; action films that involve at least a little bit of thinking; video games (particularly RPGs); TV sitcoms.

• arts
• movies
• video games
• tv
• traveling
• music
• guitar
• piano
• languages
• language exchange

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Nobuo Uematsu, MUSE, ABBA, Queen, The Reign of Kindo, Queens of the Stone Age, Rachmaninov, Liszt, Debussy, Chopin.

Movies: Hanna, Inception, The Matrix, Tropic Thunder, Team America, Alien

Books: 1984, Animal Farm, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, The Dark Tower, anything by R.A.Salvatore.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, France, Germany