CURRENT MISSION

To get further than five chords on guitar and to hold a basic conversation in Spanish....

ABOUT ME

I've been involved in couchsurfing since 2008. As a result, have met and seen some amazing people and things. I couchsurfed a heap overseas in Europe and through South America and got in with some amazing CS groups (especially in Edinburgh... crazy kids!)

Keen to get back into meeting friendly, open minded folk :)

PHILOSOPHY

Be light, be free, be joyful

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Coffee, drink, travel advice

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

My favourite thing about couchsurfing is how you can have just arrived in a place and within minutes you're injected headlong into the culture and can get a feel for what it's really like.
I also love how it's such a big trust thing on both sides, and how after knowing people hardly any time you feel super comfortable.

Also great to be living home and keep meeting different, awesome people, who might have a different perspective or take on the world.

Interests

Logic puzzles! If you have a good one, I´d love to hear it
Mindfulness
History
Linguistics and anything to do with languages or language acquisition
Food
Outdoorsy stuff (hiking, bike-riding, camping)
Ukulele

• culture
• singing
• dining
• coffee
• drinking
• traveling
• puzzles
• guitar
• cycling
• hiking
• camping
• history
• languages
• logic

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS (in no particular order)
Terry Pratchett (too many to list)
Mao's Last Dancer
Freakonomics
The Undercover Economist
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Harry Potter
The Millennium Series
The God Delusion
Eat Pray Love (I know, I know)
Committed
Anything by Roald Dahl
The Life of Pi
The Art of Happiness
Wild Swans
In My Skin
Hitchhikers Guide
The Artists Way
The Nerdist Way
Everything by Nick Horny
The Time Traveller's Wife
The Slap
The Hunger Games
Bossypants
World War Z
Malcolm Gladwell's back catalogue
Alain de Botton's back catalogue

MOVIES (in no particular order)
Boyhood
Her
Love Actually
District 9
Science of Sleep
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Where the Wild Things Are
Adaptation
Lost in Translation
Sense & Sensibility
Mary Poppins
Blues Brothers
The 7 up Series
Limitless

TV SERIES
Fargo
Breaking Bad
Sherlock (BBC)
Dexter
Mad Men
Glee
Community
30 Rock
Big Love
Once Upon a Time (I know, I know)

MUSIC
Anything in the folksy pop/rock genre with an emphasis on singing and harmonies
Anything with strings
Sometimes psytrance
Musical Theatre
Cheesy 80s if I'm going out

PODCASTS
Sawbones
This American Life
Savage Love
The Nerdist
Lingua Franca
John Safran/Father Bob
Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Hiked all 800 km of the camino de santiago.
Lived in the Philippines for 6 months in a dormitory.
Volunteered in Peru and discovered a love of manual work.
Got a triple word score for ´bamboozled´ in scrabble.
Went back to grad school as an adult and now find myself spending my days playing boardgames for a living!

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you harmony singing and ukulele. I want to improve on guitar and Spanish.

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