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Overview
About Me
Studying in North East England .
ABOUT ME
kind, open-minded and doesn't take life too seriously..
PHILOSOPHY
'There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.'- Tom Robbins.
Full-time beholder of the wonderful absurdity of life.
Why I’m on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING
Surfed once with Jimmy in London during a festival and have hosted three times, in Edinburgh and in Ecuador.
I'm looking to turn my CS experience towards language exchange whilst I am in South America.
Interests
Music of all genres and talking about it, writing, reading (especially Tom Robbins), philosophy, poetry, dialectology, fundraising, running, cooking, camping, TWITTER and partying
- writing
- poetry
- festivals
- cooking
- beer
- running
- partying
- drinking
- reading
- music
- camping
- language exchange
Music, Movies, and Books
Walt Mink The Doors PIXIES Joni Mitchell Animal Collective Baths Korn Vic Chesnutt Red Hot Chili Peppers Slipknot Rivers Cuomo Basshunter Tom Waits Daniel Rossen Insane Clown Posse Shinies wu lyf Parakeet Friends Neon Indian OLD FOREST Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band we are trees Gross Magic Fanzine SPLASHH Laidback Luke The Foo Birds Edinburgh University Jazz Orchestra
The Daydream Club Jimmy Pop teen daze Picture Plane Pavement Yuck Rysor Chasing Owls Dave Gilmour Pink Floyd Blonde Redhead The Sensational Alex Harvey Band of Montreal Sonic Youth Panda Bear Gold Panda
Anything David Lynch or biopics about inspirational people, films that write themselves or allow you to have a part in their writing.
Any Tom Robbins novels.
One Amazing Thing I’ve Done
Feeding a giraffe was great
Working on a zucchini farm in Australia
visiting the Incan ruins at Ingapirca
Teach, Learn, Share
Will listen for knowledge.
What I Can Share with Hosts
I can cook, I like to drink beer and I will definitely help to improve your English!
Countries I’ve Visited
Australia, Austria, Cambodia, Canada, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Fiji, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City State, Viet Nam
Countries I’ve Lived In
Australia, Ecuador, United Kingdom