CURRENT MISSION

To keep travelling!

ABOUT ME

I am a mother of two, living in Vancouver Canada, work as a teacher and have worked off and on in theatre production (puppetry, technical, stage manager) , photography, and film/tv. I want to travel again having taken many years off to raise family (and so broke!!) I am planning to see Brazil, Europe again-Spain, Italy, Germany, Turkey...Northern Africa....
Finally renewed my passport and was told about this Couch surfing site...

PHILOSOPHY

keeping an open mind, sense of humour, empathy and humbleness. Pretentious people are messed up!

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

To meet new people and learn

Fairly new but have hosted 4 travelers.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

have hosted 4

Centres d'intérêt

photography, hiking, travelling, writing, biking, filmmaking, watching films and listening to music from around the world, learning, meeting people, dancing, keeping fit, exploring, anthropology (culture and truth) and Stephen Jay Gould, have a deep interest in world music and in another life- an ethnomusicologist would be a chosen career! (for now its photo-journalism/writing)

• culture
• writing
• photography
• film making
• dancing
• boating
• movies
• tv
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• world music
• cycling
• hiking
• surfing
• sailing
• swimming
• anthropology
• teaching
• journalism

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

BOOKS: Loved "The 100 year old man who jumped out a window and disappeared", " The girl who saved the Kind of Sweden", 'Lullabies for Little Children', 'Poisonwood Bible', 'One Hundred years of Solitude', anything George ORwell, or Stephen Jay Gould, Barbara Kingslover..."Inside of a Dog"
"What the Dog Saw" (by Malcolm Gladwell-liked "outliars' too)
Loved "Just Kids" by Patti Smith, (hopefully the movie deal with be good)
Films: so many to mention-recently 'Ten" "Offside" (Iranian) "City of God" and Men, 'Bus 174" (Brazil) Herzog's 'Aguirre the Wrath of God" and "Strozek" :"The Wave", "12 Angry Lebanese" , "Wasteland" and "Nostalgia for the light" , " Exit thru the Gift Shop"

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

travelling to Ireland and Latin America was one of the best times of my life. Dophins swimming off the coast of Belize, on a sail boat with no wind....12 midnight, full-moon and being able to touch them as they glided by....omg!!!! But, having children has changed me forever!

Enseignez, apprenez, partagez

same as above- I love people who make me laugh (and at myself!!) and like to have fun 'in the moment' , people who bring themselves without pretention, are self-effacing and like to learn new things about the country they are exploring. (lifelong learner)

Ce que j'aimerais partager avec mes hôtes

Sense of humour , eclectic interests,
and passion for the arts animals and nature!

Pays que j'ai visités

Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Guatemala, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Canada