Hi,
My name's Rosie. I'm currently on a gap year (or should I say gap nine months?) before heading back to England to study Biomedical Sciences.
Before coming travelling I had just completed my A-Levels and was working as a cocktail waitress and also in a supermarket stacking shelves in order to save up for this big trip of mine.
Over the past four months I've been to India, Nepal (where I volunteered at an elephant sanctuary and taught English in an orphanage); Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Indonesia. With the remaining five I plan to work in Australia and head to New Zealand before a stop over in San Fran on the way home.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I guess for the same reasons everyone else is: to learn about another culture, get an insiders view of a city/place, meet new people, make new friends blah blah- same same but different, no?

Interests

I love kids, at home I volunteer at a foster home/give rest bite care a couple times a week and have done for about three years or so; I find it really rewararding.
I love music, dancing until the lights are turned on and we're kicked out into broad daylight, sharing good vibes, stories and memories.

• arts
• culture
• dancing
• recipes
• cocktails
• traveling
• music
• volunteering

Music, Movies, and Books

Music- Anything ranging from Frank Ocean to JME to Christian Hoffler, Biggie Smalls, Sticky Fingers.. Actually at the moment I can't stop listening to Keep The Fire Burning by Gwen McCrae and 1960 What? the Opolopo Kick and Bass Rerub by Gregory Porter.. They were both ixed in at this amazing DJ set with some good deep house/techno on Police Beach on Ko Rong in Cambodia just as the sun was rising.. It was so beautiful.
Movie-Wise It's hard to choose.. I think Snatch, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Blow, Easy A, Lion King, The Pursuit of Happyness and The Beach are my favourites to name a few.
Books- I remember when I was younger I read I Capture the Castle.. It was such a sweet story- something I wouldn't normally have read but was given to me as a gift by my aunt and I absolutely fell in love with it. I more recently read The Emporer of all Mallodies which is a personified biography of cancer, which I know may sound boring to some, but it really inspired me to do the course I've chosen at uni.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Define amazing? Looking after sick strangers that I've met travelling just because I know how awful it is to be stuck, alone in a foreign country feeling like hell.
Volunteering at home, in India and Nepal with children in emergency foster care, children living in slums, orphanages and ill-looked after working elephants.
I think travelling the world, solo and as a woman is pretty impressive too!

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd love to be good at art, be shown new awesome music, places, things. Life is for learning about yourself and more importantly that it's more than just you!
That's what travelling has taught me the most... I always say 'Everyone I love woke up today so I'm already blessed' and 'Everything bad happens for good' for me those two sayings really important.

What I Can Share with Hosts

Good stories, a sense of humour, recipes, music and hopefully good memories!
I'm also more than happy to do the washing up :)

Countries I’ve Visited

Cambodia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Mauritius, Nepal, Netherlands, Spain, Thailand, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

England