CURRENT MISSION

To travel widely, meet people and prove my faith in humanity. I love what this website is about and the idea of self-organised communities.

ABOUT ME

CouchSurfing represents some of the best things about the internet: connecting people and sharing information. I'm interested in many things. I'm passionate about the environment, community organising; exploring new places and meeting new people.

PHILOSOPHY

I try to live by minimal impact on our earth, an open heart and mind; I try to do good where I can and show an active interest in the world around me. I believe in the power of conversation (dialogue) so meeting - and engaging - others is important to me.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Having travelled around much of Europe and Central and South America I have experienced the warmth of strangers when I've not been able to rent a flat/room/bed and I'm keen to re-pay the gesture to keep the cycle of goodness in motion!

Interests

Interests are many and varied: cycling, football (soccer!), cinema, literature, capoeira, music (playing, listening and watching), writing, film-making and of course meeting people and sharing stories. Lauren is into film and cinema, cooking, and food growing.

• writing
• literature
• capoeira
• environment
• dining
• cooking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• woodworking
• music
• violin
• drums
• cycling
• soccer
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

FILMS: Blade Runner; Chinatown; La Haine; The Seventh Seal; One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest; The Cloud Capped Star; Night and Fog; The Thin Blue LIne; The Three Colours Trilogy; Casablanca; Rome, Open City; Sans Soleil; Freaks; The Wide Blue Yonder and so much more... BOOKS (authors): Primo Levi; W.G. Sebald; Paul Auster; Albert Camus; Paul Kingsnorth; George Monbiot; John Berger; Dostoevsky; Joseph Conrad; John Steinbeck; Franz Kafka BOOKS (titles): 'Mehmed my Hawk'; 'By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept'; 'An Intimate History of Humanity'; 'Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography & Politics'; 'Sculpting in Time' and so much more... MUSIC: hip-hop; folk; "world music"; electronica, contemporary classical

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Cycled Cuba... lived with my grandmother in her final years... travelled to India... seen the night sky littered with stars and the sweep of the milky-way...
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Teach, Learn, Share

Skills I might be able to offer: bicycle maintenance (how to fix a puncture), cooking, permaculture principles, and consensus-decision making facilitation, growing food // I would like to learn many things: how to be a better listener, languages, violin and drums, how to teach better, woodwork, how to do handstands and a whole range of other things.

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