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  • 96 references 65 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Chinese, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Tagalog
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2008
  • studying
  • grad cert. entrepreneurship and innovation/ grad cert dev...
  • From Sydney
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

To live more in the nature.

ABOUT ME

Been travelling on and off for about 13 years... loving it!! I love the nature, to dance, make music and be creative.Hoping I can positively influence people to live their dreams. in 2007 I founded and run a Social Enterprise called Nomadic Hands- www.nomadichands.com

PHILOSOPHY

You only have one body... where else are you going to live?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I will generally take travellers to the less touristy places. I'll share my Australian culture and also other cultures I have picked up on the way. I love meeting people and experiencing different cultures. I love the beach and the bush!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I have had the best time ever couchsurfing!! I love new foods, languages... everything! People have been so warm, open and generous, and I definitely would prefer to travel this way whenever possible.

Interests

Extreme sports, dancing, acrobatics, fire twirling, hiking, camping, writing, photography, documentaries, poetry, learning languages, singing, making music, violin, guitar, meeting new people, nature, animals, swimming... especially at the beach or in waterfalls or rivers.

  • animals
  • horses
  • culture
  • writing
  • poetry
  • singing
  • photography
  • documentaries
  • dancing
  • running
  • traveling
  • socializing
  • music
  • guitar
  • violin
  • hiking
  • camping
  • sports
  • swimming
  • extreme sports
  • business
  • languages
  • beaches
  • rivers

Music, Movies, and Books

Books- Human cargo, The Alchemist, My forbidden face, A long way gone, Brida.Movies- Born into brothels, March of the Penguins, Year Zero: the Silent Death of Cambodia, Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Lived with a tribe in the Ecuadorian Amazon for a couple of months and filmed a doco about oil exploitation, snowboarded and skated through parts of Canada, hitch-hiked around Alaska with a good friend... Stayed with a Malay family in a stilt house... bought and rode a motorbike in China... been throughout Torres straight Islands protected zones working as a carny, joined a band in the Philippines while running a child labor prevention project. I also started to work with horses and was just about to travel with a horse caravan.

Teach, Learn, Share

I like to learn how to play musical instruments, and I can teach English, social business, film editing, acrobatics and fire twirling... Anything else I can share, I am more than happy to.

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Greece, Guatemala, Iceland, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Thailand, United States, Venezuela

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Canada, China, United Kingdom, United States

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