Hey! I'm Nina ! I'm very friendly, happy, and occasionally hectic - I like to go out and try new things. I'm currently living in Wellington where I went to uni.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I've hosted some people back home and that's gone pretty well, we've had fun! I've also stayed on a few couches (some of whom I hosted in NZ first!) and gone to meet-up events when I was new to an area.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Overall great fun. No bad experiences. One couchsurfer ended up joining me and some friends for a holiday post-exams at my beach house - that was awesome.

Interests

I play around with a few different things - at the moment my main interests are rock climbing and dancing, though I'm always on the look out for something new to try. For my job I stilt walk and play with fire so that's always cool! I have an ongoing love of reading and I like socialising with friends. I went to a Rocky Horror Picture Show live screening a while ago and had the best night! I've been on a baking binge lately and my flatmates have been provided with fresh bread and bagels.

• animals
• dancing
• baking
• reading
• traveling
• rock climbing
• swimming
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

I really enjoy reading and will read pretty much everything from the classics to urban fantasy and trashy romances (which are my guilty pleasure), though I'm sadly lacking non-fiction.

I like listening to music but I'm not fussy about what. At the moment I enjoy Florence and the Machine, Ed Sheeran, the Muttonbirds, Mikki Ekko, Daughter, Foxes.

I hate horror films because I'm too pathetic to watch them! But otherwise enjoy most films.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

One summer I was on holiday in Golden Bay, New Zealand, and some friends and I were having a bonfire on the beach when we decided to go for a swim. There was phosphoresence in the water that night and it looked like we were swimming in shooting stars - I honestly cannot describe how amazing it was. Each wave lit up as it crashed and if you walked in the wet sand each footstep glowed.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach people how to stilt walk, use 'whom' correctly in a sentence and bake bread without kneading! I can also teach you to make balloon animals!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Tonga, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, United States