CURRENT MISSION

Where next?

ABOUT ME

Hey, I'm Ruth-Anne or Roo (never Ruth, please).

Just in Nelson for a couple of nights and keen to go out. I'm a local, but haven't lived here in ages. Most of this profile is old, but I like it.

Not currently able to host.

PHILOSOPHY

"While travelling, a new destination would seem more desirable to you than wherever you were, right up to the moment you got there and found that your dissatisfaction had followed you: the mirage had shifted to the next stop over point. Yet your preceding stops would become more attractive as you got further away from them. For you, the past would be forever improving, the furture would draw you forward, but the present would weigh you down."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I try and be a gracious surfer. In the future I plan to be a generous host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I'm always amazed how each time I meet a new host and enter their house, I truly feel like I am entering my new home.

Interests

Reading books, hearing stories, listening to poetry, writing lists of words, vegetarianism, watching movies, baking, cooking, drinking tea, swimming, card games, fruit, cats, paper, ribbons, staring out of windows...

• cats
• writing
• books
• poetry
• cooking
• baking
• drinking
• movies
• reading
• traveling
• drawing
• swimming

Music, Movies, and Books

Favourite authors: Edouard Levé, Milan Kundera, Vladimir Nabokov, Charles Bukowski, Oscar Wilde, Hermann Hesse, Janet Frame, Joey Comeau, Goethe, Margaret Atwood...

Newest favourite books: Autoportrait - Edouard Levé, The Book of Hrabal - Péter Esterházy.

A list of movies I watched at the end of 2011, once titled "Most recently watched movies": Melancholia (2011 - Lars von Trier), Benny and Joon (1993 - Jeremiah S. Chechik), Candy (2006 - Neil Armfield), Baby Doll (1956 - Elia Kazan), Liquid Sky (1982 - Slava Tsukerman), The Mirror (1975 - Andrey Tarkovsky), Inglorious Basterds (2009 - Quentin Tarantino), The Colour of Pomegranates (1968 - Sergei Parajanov), Taxidermia (2006 - György Pálfi)...

Music? For the moment, this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wycjnCCgUes&feature=endscreen&NR=1

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Most of my most precious moments have been when people quietly share something with me.

Teach, Learn, Share

I'd like to learn some new ideas! Film and book recommendations are always welcome. I'd love it if someone could teach me what it is that I am supposed to teach... I'd love to know what I have to give the world.

Countries I’ve Visited

Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Netherlands, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Georgia, Germany, New Zealand, United Kingdom

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