CURRENT MISSION

Taking a year out of medicine to paint, practice ballet and think. I'm travelling around America before moving to an olive farm in Marathon, Greece - to set up a routine and continue my personal growth.

ABOUT ME

I'm interested in pretty much everything, am up for a conversation on most topics and love learning and helping others - I've dedicated my life to it. I'm warm and caring and enjoy looking after others, but with a deeply rooted, wild, adventure-driven streak (which has at times gotten me into both lots of fun and a bit of trouble). I've mellowed with my indoctrination into the professional world and treasure quiet reflecting time, but I'm definitely still up for pretty much anything if in the mood

PHILOSOPHY

What I wrote here 8 years ago still stands: All I know is that I know nothing.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

just.fucking.unbelievable.

Interests

Honest conversation, raw people, live music, silliness, non-live music, swimming in various bodies of water, chickens, cooking vegan food, being lost, loving people, different streams of thought, being introspective, drawing plants, singing badly, hitchhiking, living off nothing, being in nature, being looked after, looking after people, being outside, lying in bed, learning ballet, having nowhere to sleep, staying in, going out and always trying to be a better person.

• animals
• ethics
• cooking
• traveling
• music
• hiking
• camping
• scuba diving
• swimming
• medicine
• nature
• ballet
• love
• veganism
• global health
• botanical illustration

Music, Movies, and Books

This is old and I will update eventually, but most of it still stands! I'd say I'm more into non-fiction books, epic movies and ambient music now.

Nineteen eighty-four, Brave new World, Chrysalids, Catch 22, anything Kurt Vonnegut- clever sonnabitch, Sophies World, The Fall, The little prince, Johnathon Livingston Seagull, The old man and the sea, Hithikers guide to the galaxy, Animal Farm Eetctetcetettcecet
Dirty Three Flaming Lips Phillip Glass Sin City T. Rex Sigur Rós Animal collective The National Dirty Three Bob Dylan Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds David Bowie The Beach Boys Lou reed (velvet underground) Beach House The Beatles Leonard Cohen Tom Waits Joy Division etcctetectetctec Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind The Science of Sleep Baraka Amelie Kill Bill American Beauty Princess Mononoke Into the Wild Anything Alfred Hitchcock Tekkonkinkreet Darjeeling Limited The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her LoverAnything Hayao Miyazaki Waking Life Spirited Away Pan's Labyrinth Dumplings The Royal Tenenbaums The Life Aquatic Pulp Fiction Soylent Green Rocky Horror Picture show

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

The Camino de Santiago, also my placement at a rural Nepalese hospital, oh gee. And actually being such an oddball and getting through medical school - that's huge, go me!

What I Can Share with Hosts

Stories, food, different world views, playing "guess that rash!" (no I cannot give medical advice), warmth, connection, friendship

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Nepal, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia